Just hold
the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a on screen Keyboard with icons on
the keys that are configured.
also for Drag and Drop Configuration.
When a key combination
is pressed hotkeys will first try to find an existing instance of the requested
application or document and bring that to the front.
behaviour can be overruled
by holding the Alt key, which ensures that a new instance is allways launched.
using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core, but layering on intelligence that learns from you, including your reading patterns, to personalize your information waterfall.
The goal? To bring a new, graphical, view of feeds, via Google Reader, and add multiple social layers on top of what's already recognized as the world's most-popular online RSS engine.
Send a note about the article using your Twitter acount.
Preview it, giving a glimpse of how it looks from the source site.
Due to Feedly's tight integration with Google Reader, the items in the What's New page are segmented by topic,
gathered from your folders in Google Reader.
The Wall can act as your social springboard to both shared items in Google Reader and Twitter updates.
Feedly has developed an extensive tie-in with Google Search and Google Reader on day one.
Searches for more frequent terms, like Apple and Yahoo!, had their expected 1000+ results,
in reverse chronological order.
Similar to Google Reader shared notes, you can make notes on any item within Feedly and share it on "The Wall".
But unlike Google Reader, you can highlight the portion you're commenting on, and make notes,
select the desired text, and an option comes up to either "search related articles" or "highlight".
selected text is in fact highlighted, and you can add a comment.
Tweeting an article is similarly easy
click "tweet"
opens up with the headline, an automatically generated TinyURL, and a note on how many characters I have before running out of Twitter's 140 character limit.
automatically shows contacts you have in your GMail address book
Feedly is 100% synchronized with Google Reader.
move a blog from one folder to another in Google Reader? You can do that through Feedly.
Feedly essentially brings you all the aspects of Google Reader we've grown accustomed to, but displays them in a new, friendly, visual way, while extending the feed universe out to Twitter and e-mail, and adding social elements.
should you get bogged down with too many updates, feeds are flagged warm or cool based on your reading behavior and how often you mark them as favorites.
If you're the type of RSS power user who wants to read hundreds of items through aggressive keyboard navigation, then Google Reader still can't be beat,
but if you want to pick the very best from the many feeds you have, share items with friends and find new sources for news, Feedly is a compelling option.
mouse over to the edges of the screen, where you will find all the tools that you need to browse, view and tag your images
But note that in order to really take advantage of what this program can do you really have to become familiar with the different mouse manipulations
(e.g. right-click and move to move selected sets of images around – see the video tutorials). You also might want to become familiar with the various keyboard shortcuts, esp. the ones that concern tagging images, as they will make the process super fast and easy. Note that when hovering over any command icon in the interface a text label will show at the bottom of the screen to explain it (although a tool-tip would have been better, I think).
can group by name, by path, by resolution, by number views, by time/date accessed, by color, and of course by tags
Lasso-type tool: an innovative tool that can be used while tagging to select multiple images
Automatic tag suggestions: for quick tagging, Viewer2 can suggest tags based on other tagging activity.
Searching: the search function is one of the most versatile and powerful that you could hope for
It is able to field sophisticated queries such as give me the word "bla" with "2007" in the path excluding the tag "wallpaper" as an example (see the manual section for an overview).
search by tags, by name, location, size, etc.
Customization: most everything about this program can be customized in the settings, from the size of the thumbnails to the way various elements behave.
Memory use: only 16 megs in memory, despite the nifty, visual pyrotechnics.
KeepNote offers a convenient debugging tool for when notes are not saving
properly. You can open any note as a raw text file in the text editor of
your choice. This is specified with the Text Editor helper application.
After the screenshot program finishes, KeepNote will un-minimize,
attempt to read the saved screenshot, and insert the image into the currently
open note. The tempfile will also be removed.
KeepNote maintains an index of each notebook
to facilitate faster navigation and linking. This index
is stored as a SQLite database and
its file is located at your_notebook/__NOTEBOOK__/index.sqlite.
if you happen to create/modify notes
outside of KeepNote (which is not guaranteed to be supported in all
cases), you should let the index know about these changes by choosing the
menu Tools > Update Notebook Index.
If you use backup software or a network filesystem with your notebook,
you may experience performance issues with the index
If this becomes an issue, you can specify
an alternative location for the index file (say a location on a local
disk). To specify an alternative location, use the option
Edit > Preferences > This Notebook > Alternative index location.
can use drag and drop in either the
treeview or listview to rearrange your notes.
envision KeepNote being used in a research setting
where you have notes that follow both journal (time-sensitive, linear
organization, pictured on the left) and reference (time-insensitive,
hierarchical, pictured on the right) styles.
istview also allows sorting by
both creation time, note title, and manual sorting.
Another feature that I have focused on is image manipulation.
Notes are most valuable when you can easily access them. That means
accessing your notes on multiple platforms
All notes are
stored in UTF-8 HTML files and nested in ordinary folders on the file
system. That means you can read your notes with nothing more than a
web browser.
Portability.
KeepNote can easily save notebooks to a USB drive. The KeepNote application
can also be installed to a USB drive, so that moves with the notes.
At this time KeepNote does store some user preference
information in the Application Data folder, but this should not prevent
using KeepNote in a portable way.
because KeepNote does not store any information in the
Windows Registry
shortcut keys Ctrl+N (New Page) and
Ctrl+Shift+M (New Folder).
KeepNote can store any file as an "attachment" to the notebook.
Autosave. Notebooks are automatically
saved every 10 seconds. This interval can be changed or
disabled in the Edit > Preferences
menu.
Nesting in listview. Another subtle feature is that
the listview can display nested folders and notes as well. The
collapse state of folders in the listview is saved separately.
listview, you can
sort notes by many criteria (e.g. title, creation time, modification
time, etc) by clicking on the column headers.
For very large notebooks, a treeview (the left side of the window)
becomes overwhelming, a problem I have run into with many other programs.
In these situations, a listview (top portion of the window),
becomes important.
none of the columns
are activated for sorting, the listview goes into "manual" sort mode,
which displays the notes as they appear in the treeview and allows you
to drag and drop notes into any order you wish.
One very subtle but
convenient feature is that the listview sorting is saved on a
per folder basis
KeepNote also supports links between notes in a notebook.
Simply start a
link with
Ctrl+L or clicking the link
button and start typing the name of a note. An auto-complete drop
down list will appear allowing you to pick the note you wish to link
to
Another way to create a link is to use copy-and-paste. First, select
a note in the treeview or listview that you wish to link to and copy
it (Ctrl+C or the menu
Edit > Copy). Next,
navigate to the note in which you wish to make the link, and paste into
the text editor to create a link.
Note: note-to-note links will never break
(unless you delete the target note). Feel free to rename a note or
move it around. Links will still point to the right notes.
Custom note icons
Each note can have up to two icons associated with it: a
normal icon and an optional open version of the icon. If the
open version of an icon is set it will be used when the note is
expanded in the treeview or listview
After you select a new icon, it will be added to the Notebook-specific
Icons list for future reuse. A copy of the icon image is now stored in
your notebook.
several options for
images in their right click menu
Resize Image...
KeepNote
will display the image at its new size, while keeping the original
image file unaltered (original size).
Double clicking the image or
choosing the View Image menu option will display the image at
its original size in the image viewer
of your choice.
feature is convenient for shrinking large
images into thumbnails within your notebook.
Sorting.
Spell checking is available only on Linux and Mac OS X at this time
can add/change a keyboard shortcut to any menu option in KeepNote.
Simply place your mouse cursor over the menu item which you would like
to customize and press your desired shortcut combination
(e.g. Ctrl+I)
To remove a shortcut altogether,
press Ctrl+Backspace
Backup and restore
Currently, the only format implemented is HTML
The hierarchy (as seen in the treeview) will be exported and all note-to-note
links will be translated from KeepNote's format (e.g.
nbk:///nodeid...) into relative file links that will work in
all web browsers.
Helper applications are other programs installed on your computer that
KeepNote can use to perform certain operations, such as image editing,
web browsing, text editing, etc. These applications are chosen from the
KeepNote Preference dialog,
Various other mouse actions such as warping (the cursor will be moved to the opposite end of the screen when the edge is reached), desktop edge knocking (knock on the edge with the mouse in order to change the desktop), enabling middle click for desktop change, window list or showing window menu.
Some users feel like VirtuaWin does not offer too much in terms of desktop virtualization in the sense that it does not trick the applications into behaving as if they were on a different system but having access to up to 20 desktops with the system tray intact and all installed software in place is actually the beauty of the software.
Switching between the multiple desktops is easy and you can set whatever keyboard shortcuts as well as enable mouse actions for the task.
Resource usage is light and even on more feeble systems neither its CPU nor RAM needs betray its existence.
The lack of an interface and the myriad of configuration options may scare some users off. Also, some files may gain a little lag when restoring from the taskbar.