WhizFolders 6.5

The latest version 6.5.7 is a maintenance release. What's New in version 6.5.7:

New, smart quotes “always on” option: In a previous blog article, I described how to switch on smart quotes by Ctrl-Shift-quote keys. This is a feature of Microsoft RichEdit that WhizFolders uses. In this version, we have given this option on the Settings–Editor page. This makes it easier to keep smart quotes on if you use that feature frequently. We have fixed the problem in pre-release that occurred on non-US keyboards.

New behavior of Move Up button: Previously the Move Up button moved a topic up through its immediate adjacent topics, causing a change in its level. Now it moves above the next sibling so that the level remains unchanged. If you don’t want this and want the old behavior, you can Revert to old behavior by an option in the Settings–Miscellaneous 2.

Tutorial revised: The Getting Started tutorial has been revised. A PDF User Guide based on it has also been released at whizfoldersguide.pdf.

Numerous smaller improvements and fixes are described on a link at the end of this page.

New features added in previous 6.5 releases:

New Toolbars

WhizFolders now starts with a better toolbar as shown below.

It is easier to find most of the operations on this toolbar. Still, if you are an advanced user and want to customize the toolbar, you can click on Setting--General Options--Toolbars and switch off the Beginner's toolbar. You will need to restart WhizFolders. More details on customization are in the help file.

New program and document icons

We have made new, better looking icons for WhizFolders and WhizFolder documents. At the same time, the color and the theme of the old icon has been retained so that the new icon is easier to identify.

Assign icons to topic names

You can now assign a custom icon to any topic name in the topic list. Just use the new Icon drop down that you see on the toolbar or on the right-click menu. You can even select multiple topics and assign them new icons.

For example, here is a picture of the topic list in the Tutorial document. I have assigned icons to some important topics or topics that contain new information.

***New in version 6.5.4: We have made two nice improvements in this feature:

Earlier, it was not possible to see the exact icon assigned to a topic. Now, as soon as you select a topic in the topic list, its assigned icon appears in the toolbar as shown below.

Now you can also type an icon number in the assign icon button and hit Enter key to assign. This makes it easier to repeatedly assign your favorite icons.

Pinnable Keywords and Search panes

If you see the Keywords and Search panes on the right, you will see a new “Pin” button at the top as shown below.

Click the pin button and the panes should stay instead of hiding when not in use. See the picture below. This helps when you are going through several search results or keywords and want to remember your place in there.

To go back to earlier sliding panes, use the Close button at the top.

New "Invert Selection" operation for advanced users

You might have noticed that some operations select multiple topics for you. For example, you can select a keyword in the right pane and right-click on “Select All Assigned Topics.” This selects all the topics assigned to that keyword so that you can then do other operations on them, for example, print selected topics or move them to a new place or document. Similar selection can be done for “check marked” lists by the right-click menu “Select only the ticked topics.”

The great idea of “Invert selection” came from some advanced users of WhizFolders. They wanted to work on the “Not selected” set. For example, they want to print all the topics that are not assigned to the keyword “History.” For this purpose, I have now added an “Invert Selection” operation on the edit menu. It deselects currently selected topics and selects all those topics that were not selected. This solves the problem of working on the “Not selected” set.

Group Files can be opened from Explorer

If you remember, I had introduced the document group feature in the last version 6.3. If you have created document group files by using the File menu’s corresponding operations then there is a big improvement. Earlier, you could only open a group file from the File menu of WhizFolders. But now, you can open them from Windows Explorer. The following picture shows how a document group file is listed in Explorer. You can simply double-click on such a file to open all the documents listed in it.

You can even create shortcuts for such group files on the desktop to access them quickly. Just right-click and drag to the desktop from Explorer to create the shortcuts.

Smart Installer

The above feature to be able to open group files from Explorer has been made possible by the new installer.

At the same time, the installer now makes it easier to migrate from trial to pro and from pro to deluxe editions so that an uninstall is not needed when moving from pro to deluxe edition. I will try to explain this in detail below. It's not necessary that you understand this. The installer takes care of all these details automatically.

When installed on a fresh system, now both pro and deluxe editions use the same file name whizfolders.exe. This makes it easier to install a new edition without requiring to uninstall the earlier one. For example, if you use the pro edition and upgrade to the deluxe, you don’t need to uninstall the pro edition separately. It is automatically replaced by the Deluxe edition installer. At the same time, if you already have old Pro or Deluxe edition installed with earlier file name, the installer continues to use the old file name for replacement. Considerable effort has gone into this so that the installation is simpler for new buyers. At the same time, old users with existing installations are not affected.

Back button improved

The Blue Back button on the toolbar now allows you to go back to the recent topics that you have visited in that order. Earlier, the back button only worked to go back from hyperlinks. This feature will be further improved in future versions to show a list of recent topics that you visited and similar features. Please send more ideas.

Other improvements and fixes

Please see this page and the previous history of versions before this version.

Coming back to the web site after a very long time? Here are new feature pages of earlier major releases:

Improvements and/or Known problems in exact versions:

Version 6.5.2: Please see this page.
Version 6.5.4: Please see this page.
Version 6.5.7: Please see this page.

WhizFolders 6.5 features

New Feature Highlights of WhizFolders 6.5

New features added in previous 6.5 releases: