Feature request: Multiple word processor choice

[whshep]

Since I have taken to using multiple word processors (Mellel to write, Scrivener to research, Pages for graphics-heavy things, NeoOffice for sharing with WinDozers), I would like to see an easier way to quickly switch back and forth between them than is currently implemented in the Preferences—perhaps a drop down box that would remember previous choices, something like that. Might be nice to have it in a menu item, or toolbar button, as well.

[Jon]

Hi, that already exists. File -> Link To...

Jon
Sonny Software

[whshep]

File / Link to... lists about twenty items on my computer, only one of which is a word processor (Mellel). Not very helpful.

[Jon]

Why not? Bookends lets you link to apps that aren't word processors if you want (e.g. Scrivener). You're the human -- pick Mellel out of that list.

Jon
Sonny Software

[whshep]

Bookends lets you link to apps that aren't word processors if you want (e.g. Scrivener)

How? Scrivener isn't in the list. Neither is anything else I use to write with—Pages, Opal, NeoOffice, for example—except Mellel, and I'm already linked to that.

Thanks again for providing this functionality (if only I could figure out how it works!)

[whshep]

Okay, I finally figured out that File / Link to ... simply lists all open applications. Unlike under "Preferences," you can't link to an application that is not already running. And you can link to all sorts of applications that can't won't know what to do with Bookends input. Opal, for example—which I use for writing all the time—doesn't seem to do anything with it. "Link to..." also seems to overrule but not replace the preferences setting.

Does anyone else find this terribly confusing?

[Jon]

LInk To is for ad hoc linking to other apps. Bookends does not even try to figure out what they do (how could it). And it tries to send whatever app you select an AppleEvents for paste when you select Copy Citation, but if the receiving app doesn't understand them, then it will still switch to that app and you can do the paste manually (the info is in the clipboard). If it's not useful for you, don't use it.

Jon
Sonny Software