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- Sun May 26, 2019 6:07 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Q re: Remove Arbitrary Attachment Folders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2266
- Sun May 26, 2019 1:42 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Q re: Remove Arbitrary Attachment Folders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2266
Q re: Remove Arbitrary Attachment Folders
I think I have had some references deleted from my database by accident. I think the best way to find them is to change my attachment folder to another place, and then "Remove Arbitrary Attachment Folders…" to move attachments to the new place. Anything that remains in the old attachment f...
- Sun May 26, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3112
Re: Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
THANK YOU. I much appreciate the UI update in 13.2.3.
- Thu May 23, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Type-ahead (string matching) interferes with entering data with accented characters
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4003
Re: Type-ahead (string matching) interferes with entering data with accented characters
If anyone comes across this problem, I solved it by rebuilding the keyword index, per Jon's suggestion. It may have had something to do with normalizing unicode characters as well.
- Sun May 19, 2019 11:17 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3112
Re: Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
Hi Jon I don't want to be annoying, but I don't understand what you mean by a "thin title bar." This is the inspector: Reference Links.png and this is the terms list: Term Lists.png I don't see any difference. A visual reminder that the windows behave differently would seem in order to me....
- Sat May 18, 2019 7:44 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Type-ahead (string matching) interferes with entering data with accented characters
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4003
Type-ahead (string matching) interferes with entering data with accented characters
I am trying to enter the author "Martinsson", but as I type the "i" in this name, Bookends attempts to match it with "Martínez" (accented i). Then when I type the "s" following the "i", nothing is entered, so the final name is entered as "Martns...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:38 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: A suggestion to users for making keywords more effective
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1762
A suggestion to users for making keywords more effective
Hi All you smart people have probably already twigged this, but if not: If you make your keywords start with a general concept and then move to specific, it becomes easy to use the keyword Terms List panel to do searches. For instance, your keywords can be Cats Cats, feral Cats, feral, effects on na...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:30 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3112
Two window behaviors that are very non-intuitive
I'd like to draw attention to two behaviors of Bookends that I find very non-intuitive, and, the first especially, keep getting in the way of my using Bookends effectively. 1) The "Inspector" or "Reference Links" window looks like any other window, but it acts like a panel. It fl...
- Sat May 18, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Tell me about your paper-writing bookends workflow
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16322
Re: Tell me about your paper-writing bookends workflow
Most of my workflow is similar to what is described by others. I am working with a lot of non-electronic documents, so I need to keep track of which library/repository that they are in, so I use the following. My color labels are: No Label/Have notes/Have read/To read/Find/Not Located/Deferred/In Pr...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Custom reference types/field labels missed after update
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13912
Re: Custom reference types/field labels missed after update
At least one user has had success restoring his modified Type and field labels doing this: 1. Quit Bookends (important!) 2. Remove the file TypeAndFieldLabels.txt from the Bookends folder (use the Help menu to go to that folder). 3. Restore Bookends Preferences (also in that folder) from Time Machi...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: "Find a group"--not that useful as implemented. Thoughts?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 38302
"Find a group"--not that useful as implemented. Thoughts?
Hi I thought I'd start a discussion here before asking Jon for a feature request. I do not find the "Find a Group" (Search box that pops up when you click on "Group" at the top of the list of groups) behavior very useful. The manual says: "If a match is found Bookends will s...
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:12 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Remove a reference from a group without deleting reference?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11906
Re: Remove a reference from a group without deleting reference?
I have reported elsewhere that sometimes when trying to delete a reference from a static group, Bookends will instead say that it is going to delete the reference from the catalog. I haven't tested it to see if that is what Bookends would really do. I solved the problem by quitting and relaunching B...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Strange and scary behavior for delete key
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1790
Re: Strange and scary behavior for delete key
This continues to happen to me. I still don't know if it is a miscreant dialog, or if Bookends would really delete references even though I am selecting them through a static collection (because I am afraid to find out!) Here is the bug exemplified. I have clicked on the static collection "For ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:11 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Small caps -- Bookends represents them in two ways
- Replies: 0
- Views: 33433
Small caps -- Bookends represents them in two ways
Hi Jon said in a post that small caps "are more complicated than you think." Here is one example. (I am not asking for a change of behavior in Bookends, but pointing out the behavior for anyone else who is confused like I was). The journal I was formatting for likes to have author names in...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:56 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Collaboration with co-authors--ideas?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4631
Collaboration with co-authors--ideas?
How do people who use Bookends collaborate in writing drafts? The last project I worked on, I wrote the rough draft, passed it around and got a bunch of comments. My choices at this point were continue with the draft that I passed around and make all the changes, including bibliography formatting an...