I would certainly use it if it might help overcome this shortcoming, but I'm having a problem with the process you're describing...
You've stated the "obvious difficulty" of managing colours manually. Yep, it sure is--especially in long documents and when there's no telling how colours are sorted. It seems to be by hex value, but can anyone confirm this? For what it's worth, if sorting notes in a custom order "isn't something that should need to be done", I'd say sorting arbitrarily by highlight colour certainly shouldn't be necessary! Hey, at least we can use the genuinely unnecessary function to make do when we don't have access to the one that would really be useful. Either way, I'm happy to find a way to make it work--thanks for your help! Best, Brennon Bortz Ph.D. Researcher & Composer - Sonic Arts Research Centre Queen's University, Belfast [email protected] / [email protected] On 7 Jun 2010, at 04:34, Stuart Andrews wrote: > > One way to change the ordering of notes is to assign colors of varying > brightness to each of your notes. > > E.g. > 1) highlight a note, > 2) select menu>tools>show colors, > 3) select a color (HSB slider controls work well), > 4) close the color menu, > 5) click the untitled header above the color swatches in the notes > pane to re-order the notes > > The obvious difficulty with this approach is that you have to manage > the colors manually. This is cumbersome for one page, let alone the > whole document. And unless you only use one type of note (text, > anchored, circle, box, etc.) , color-sorting will arrange these > various note types in blocks of the same type. > > In summary, it can be done! ... but it's unlikely that anyone would > commonly use this approach. > > - Stu > > Stuart Andrews, Ph.D. > Postdoctoral Associate > Institute for Computational Biomedicine > Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
