I felt it was time for a bit of positive feedback... So I just wanted to say thank you for the 9.0.3 update. Lots of small but very useful additions and touches.
One thing left me wondering though...
• Drag and drop attachment of a pdf from Preview or Acrobat Reader
If your browser downloads pdf files and automatically opens them in Preview or Acrobat Reader, you can attach them to the selected reference in Bookends by dragging and dropping the proxy icon in the pdf's title bar onto a Bookends window.
I have been doing this for as long as I can remember...
I may have a short memory, but surely it wasn't introduced with 9.0.3 (i hope)?
Best regards, and again, thanks for making my work easier!
niklas wrote:I felt it was time for a bit of positive feedback... So I just wanted to say thank you for the 9.0.3 update. Lots of small but very useful additions and touches.
Thank you, much appreciated.
One thing left me wondering though...
• Drag and drop attachment of a pdf from Preview or Acrobat Reader
If your browser downloads pdf files and automatically opens them in Preview or Acrobat Reader, you can attach them to the selected reference in Bookends by dragging and dropping the proxy icon in the pdf's title bar onto a Bookends window.
I have been doing this for as long as I can remember...
I may have a short memory, but surely it wasn't introduced with 9.0.3 (i hope)?
No, you are correct, it's been that way for a long time. But I don't think may people realized it could be done (and it is handy). Since I was adding a lot of other drag and drop enhancements to links and pdf downloads, I thought it would be useful to mention it as a feature here.
Taken together, the many additional features and small bug fixes in this release of Bookends have significantly streamlined my experience - working with groups is faster, cutting and pasting plain text is easier, and I can sort and preview exactly the way I like.
Bookends development is remarkably responsive. Not only is the product being taken in a good direction in general, but the specific ideas of users are being taken seriously and sometimes bear fruit. I've excited to see not only my own itches scratched (plain text) but also find features that hadn't even occured to me (color labels).
One quick question -- I know you use multiple URLs per reference. I'd like to extend the URL field and make it non-wrapping, which make sense for a URL. You'd still be able to enter multiple URLs with the enlarged view. Do you see any problems this would cause you?
I wouldn't anticipate any problems with that at all. In general, I don't edit extremely long URLs - while I might type in a short URL, the normal thing would be to cut and paste them - so having one display per line would only enhance readability for me, it wouldn't make editing difficult.
The only user I'd imagine being inconvenienced would be one who used many similar URLs everywhere. So if their box used to look like:
...But even if they used URLs from examplejournal for many entries, the only way I can imagine this really affecting someone is if they wanted to *read* the URL for some reason, and did it so often that clicking the expand box was a major inconvenience. But frequently reading URLs much beyond the domain doesn't seem likely, when you could just click to launch them.
One clarification. Only the first URL would be visible (the field is now a single line high). It would actually make reading the URL easier, unless it is very long. Clicking the @ button would open all (just as it does in 9.0.3) but the other URLs wouldn't be visible unless you either enlarged the field or clicked and dragged down in the field.