WhizFolders 6.1
Note Taking Software, Outliner and Link Manager for your notes & ideas
What's New in WhizFolders 6.0 |
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I'm only showing the major new features or highlights here. The minor improvements, fixes and known problems are documented in the version specific history given at the end of this document.
Highlights of WhizFolders 6.0Multi-monitor support
Brand new spelling checker WhizFolders now using a different spelling-checker. The following dictionaries are included: American English, British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Also, if you need help in transferring your old spelling-checker ignore lists to the new one, it should be easy. Just look at the help on the spelling checker options. Universal links A new feature is implemented in the right-click menu of the topic list that allows you to copy a universal link to a topic or a text position. The idea is that you should be able to put this universal link in Microsoft Word or other Office applications and the link should open the given topic in WhizFolders. You can even paste a universal link in WhizFolders itself as a JumpFile link. For details, please look up help index on Universal links. Wiki type link making A new operation "Make Selected Text a New Linked Topic Name" is now available on the right-click menu of the editor. If you select some text and click on this menu, the selected text is made into a link, and a new topic is added with that name, ready for editing. Jump to selected text now available If you select some text then all the "Copy Jump to Text Position" type operations change to "Copy Jump to Selected Text." In this case, you get a Jump link that can position on the given selected text. You just need to make sure that the text is unique. This type of jump link when activated will position to the first found occurrence of the given text in that topic. Backup your documents easily! Backing up your documents regularly is a good idea. That's why we added a nice backup feature. You can set up a backup folder and copy a document to it with a Custom keywords (only in the Deluxe edition) This is a great new feature! Sometimes, a topic may not actually contain the word that you want to associate with it. For example, a topic may be related to "marketing" but doesn't have the actual word "marketing" in it. You can assign a custom keyword "marketing" to all such topics. Note that although we call them keywords, you can call them anything. They can also serve as bookmarks to various topics and positions in the document. For example, the following picture shows the keywords for the tutorial document and the hits for the keyword "Editing documents." See an article in the Blog related to keywords. Text templates (only in the Deluxe edition) This is another great feature! Many times you may want to reuse the text for another topic with some minor changes. This is possible with the use of templates. The templates feature in WhizFolders Deluxe is quite simple. Yet, it has powerful features for advanced users too. You can set up a WhizFolder document to contain templates and then reference this document to insert boilerplate text in other documents. See an article in the Blog related to templates. New, improved Editor WhizFolders now uses Microsoft RichEdit 4.1 control for its great table support. We have changed lot of code to support this editor. Check mark support Now you can switch on the check mark support on the File Options--Appearance page. See the special note on this new option in the help file. Auto numbering File options now includes a new option "Appearance--Show numbered list" item to automatically number the topics in the topic list. XP Themes Support WhizFolders supports XP Themes by default now. If you don't like it or see any problems, you can switch off the themes support by deleting the .manifest file accompanying the Exe file for WhizFolders. More list types and nested lists You will see a new pull down item on the editor toolbar, "List Type." This allows you to make other types of numeric lists, for example, (A), (B), (C). Also, now you can nest lists easily. When already in a numbered list, click on the "Increase Indent" button to go to a lower level numbered list and click on "Decrease Indent" button to resume the original list. This can work for many nested levels. You can change the numeric type used at any level by the List Type pull down. WhizFolders tries its best to resume the list number on a level. But if there is a problem, you can correct the list continuation number in the editor by clicking on the button "Change starting number" on the toolbar (next to the List Type pulldown). Better picture size reduction Insert Picture is much improved in that it detects large pictures that might cause problems in OLE and gives a tool to reduce their size. It also converts JPGs to bitmaps automatically so that you can now insert JPG files and get them converted automatically. The color reduction is also much improved so you will find very good results even after reducing to 256 colors. Zooming You will see a new pulldown button on the toolbar showing "No zoom." You can use it to zoom the text in the viewer or the editor. Note that this doesn't change your font size settings. It just zooms the view. Auto hide on main window You will see a new button Auto Hide on the main window. Click it to switch it ON, and the main window goes out of the way whenever you are working on a document. Main Window improvements
Printing Options improvements These are available on "General Options-Printing Multiple Topics" page. For example, see Move TOC to the beginning and Put blank page after if needed. There are many other features added for printing. You will find them in general options as shown below. Margins in centimeters If you prefer entering the print margins or paragraph spacing in centimeters, press a button on the corresponding dialogs to set up your preference to "Allow entry in cms." Then WhizFolders remembers it. Customizable keys for operations A complete list of key combinations for various operations can now be seen on the menu "Help--List keys for operations" on the document window and on the separate editor window. It also allows to customize the keys. Topic name template In the New Topic page for the File Options of a document, you will see a new choice for "Start the topic name with." You can actually specify a template or text where the topic name can be embedded inside it. Just put <topicname> in this custom text and it will be made up for you based on your template. For example, you can suffix all new topic names with "- Michael" by specifying custom text as "<topicname> - Michael." Also, the entry for the topic names customized in this manner is greatly improved whereby only the name part is selected for you to change quickly after adding a new topic. New, Reorder Menu Items A new operation "Reorder Menu Items" is now available at the bottom of the menus that allows you to reorder the menu items. It is recommended that you only put a few most used items at the top and let the others remain unchanged. More customization options for Toolbars We have done some major revamping of the toolbar features. You may see many of the new features even without resetting the toolbars. But if you don't see a new feature and want it, you can do a reset of the toolbars for that particular window. You will have to repeat the customization of the toolbars again as necessary, hopefully for the last time in this version. In future, we will merely give you an informational message when the toolbars change so that you can find the new features on the menus and move them to your customized toolbars if needed. Export to MS Word Outline RTF On the menu "Tools--Export selected topics," a new menu item appears that allows you to export the RTF in a Word Outline format. You need to open the resulting file in Microsoft Word to appreciate how this feature works. Note that we have not been able to process the hyperlinks yet to convert them into Word hyperlinks. But we are looking at the possibility. Added new Sort menu Since alphabetical sort of the topics is required often, a new menu item "Sort All the topics Alphabetically" is now available under Sort Topics menu. Version specific history: There are always other minor improvements, new options and fixes not listed on this highlights page. To see the details, please follow these steps in your copy of WhizFolders 6.0:
Even more new features: The above list shows improvements in version 6 over old version 5.6. The newer version 6.1 has even more new features. Please see the following list: New features in version 6.1 |
Now WhizFolders fully supports Multi-monitor systems so that the positions of windows are remembered and restored correctly on different monitors. Moreover, it tries to fully contain the window within the full virtual desktop so that when you move from a multi-monitor system to a single one, it adjusts the windows to fall within the screen.
button click on the toolbar. You can also set up a document to automatically back up when it is closed.
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