On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:41, Brennon Bortz wrote: > 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? >
It's sorted by 8-bit HSBA components (hex values usually are RGB, which is not really appropriate for ordering). > 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! Which I've also argued, and I still have my doubts against. And that's actually a very good point, because the upsides of the color sorting is way better and the downside way lower than a column for custom ordering. So if color ordering is questionable than definitely custom ordering (and I won't go into more details, I want to avoid a long back-and-forth.) > 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. Which is very much what was said about why the color sorting is a really useful and necessary function. So you apparently agree with me on principle. Christiaan > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
