Sonny Software

Hi All,

Jon suggested that I post this request to the forum:

Just another of my feature suggestions - I was wondering whether you could incorporate a 'widescreen' view for attachments (and maybe refs, etc) in BE? I have been using DevonThink Pro the last couple of weeks and they have included this view in their recent version, and I have to say that I love it A LOT. Also, I can see that many of their users have given them good feedback on this feature. I have now also installed a plugin for Apple mail to use that in this view and I have included a few screenshots to illustrate my point - the BE 'widescreen' view I have included is just a mockup of what I am thinking off - what it shows is just half a window of BE and the pdf in Preview.

Would anybody else find this useful? Personally I would love to be able to read pdfs in BE, but as the layout is at the moment, this is a little hard I think. Please give your 2 cents.
Cheers,
Kristian

okay attachment didn't work it seems - link here: http://files.me.com/kgaandersen/k75jux

I would like to have this option – in particular because this would allow me to use the formatted view and look at an attachment at the same time.

As it is now, I almost never use the attachment view, because I need the formatted view more often…

Hi ozean,

Did you know you can have Bookends display the formatted reference in the Summary concise view (that is, in the right pane)? This is set in preferences. So you can have both the formatted reference and the attachment shown at the same time.

Jon
Sonny Software

Ah, I did not know that. Thanks for the tip!

However, after trying it I turned it off because it eats up a lot of window space for little information. If I have it at the bottom, it just eats three wide lines. If I have to the right, it eats up about fifty slender lines, i.e. it is almost exclusively white space.

Thus I set the right pane to display either notes (they are so nice & yellow!) or the summary. That way much more of this space is used to display additional information – and even more space would be used even more productively if a PDF would be displayed there!