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,
Feedly takes your boring RSS reader and gives it a very shiny magazine like look.
several different viewing options that you can choose form – Magazine, Overview, Summery, Picture grid etc.
But with Feedly and its social integration with twitter, friendfeed & Google Reader – it is more intelligent to understand what is hot and what is not
Based on your previous reading pattern, it sorts of guesses your favourite feeds that you can’t get enough of.
best part about Feedly is the way it organizes and displays your feed. Reading your feeds inside feedly is genuinely pleasing and takes very little effort compared to any other web-based or desktop based RSS reader that are out there.
hen you are browsing a page or searching for something on a search engine like Google, it looks at your keyword and pulls up the recent stories about those topics from your feeds and nicely overlays a list of stories at the bottom of your screen.
Photology is an image management software which allows the user to sift through large number of photos or images without the need to set up tags or organize collections.
The program’s slogan says – No tags, No folders. It just knows
mimics our own behavior in the way we tend to remember a snapshot. Not by filenames but by the other vague details
seven filters
Time of day:
Date:
show in order (view with others taken around the same time),
Location: Was it an outdoor shot or an indoor one?
Content: Was it about people, plants, the ocean or the sky?
Text:
Color: Narrow down the choices by searching for a particular color using the color wheel.
Photology lets us select the folders to monitor for photos
Features: Was it black/white, under-exposed, over-exposed, in focus, out of focus or in monotones?
Hovering our mouse over the thumbnail gives us four more options to use for an image
rotate
add to group (select and add to a group for sorting)
delete.
can enter a caption
added options include:
Group – These are collections of similarly themed pictures we can create for ourselves. Put a single photo in as many groups as you want without making multiple copies.
Share – Easily share photos via an email link, Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug. We can also collect selected photos into a desktop folder for sharing through the ‘file’ share option.
logical filters like ‘Features’, ‘Color’, ‘Date’ and ‘Text’ returned fairly accurate results with a few errors.
abstract counterparts like ‘Location’ and ‘Content’ returned a wider variety of inaccurate results
Though, I wish they would add some multiple image handling capabilities especially related to naming and tagging so I can compensate for some of my previous laziness.
Photology does support the use of keywords
can find photos based on captions, group names and folder names by using the text search:
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.
Related tags guide you to using your tags consistently while tagging and provide you suggestions on how to get closer to the goal of your research while searching
powerful features for quickly organizing the tags of large amounts of files
Surf your tagged desktop and discover your information by browsing through your own personal TagCloud
Get automatically informed by tag2find as soon as you create or download new files
"New File Monitor" will watch certain folders (which you can define) for new files of a certain type (we provide you with a good set to start with).
You can now not only drag files into tag2find, you can also drag them out of the search result popup or the TagBrowser
If you drag files over to explorer, the files will be moved/copied. If you drag them to your e-mail composer window, they will be attached to the mail. If you drag & drop them to an open application, most applications will open the file you drop
Export/Import your tags
Tag Initializer
folder path
type of the file is determined and tags for music, documents, images, etc. are suggested
metadata: MP3 files already contain metadata, called ID3; this data is extracted and suggested as tags
? I'm not sure if persistent tagging means it's stored in a metadata though.
Nice features.
Drag & Drop, to and from.!
File creation/download monitoring.
Tag intializer.
Related Tags
Tagcloud. Intregration.
Don't know if it has a auto-tagging feature though.
Group by renaming the tab. eg [GroupName]. Basically surrounding the group name in square brackets. [...]
strongly recommended to always backup your notes before updating QuickFox Notes;
To backup QuickFox Notes, simply duplicate (copy & paste) your "QuickFox Notes" bookmark folder and rename it to something else. After successful update, move your QuickFox Notes bookmarks back to the QuickFox Notes bookmarks folder.
QuickFox Notes offers a variety of features and also supports most shortcuts as used in Notepad++.
Text search
Multiple tabs
QuickFox Notes is a multi-tab note taking add-on for Firefox that uses the integrated bookmarks system to store the notes.
open QuickFox Notes as a standalone application
Where does QuickFox Notes store the notes?
folder called "Quickfox Notes" is created in your bookmarks.
QuickFox Notes is using Firefox bookmarks to store note data.
Each bookmark of this folder represents a separate note.
an access note data through a bookmark's properties, even if the add-on is not installed in Firefox.
The actual text of the note is stored in the description field of the bookmark.
Autocopy/Paste on middle-click text (disabled by default)
Create Firefox shortcut, then change the target application to: "Path to Firefox" -qfn
add QFN to the windows-context-menu?
Depend on your windows type download one of these files (32 bit or 64 bit). Double click on it and you will find a new item ("Import to QFN") is added to your windows context menu.
need to edit these files with a text editor if Firefox is not installed in its default path
he "Archive" is a packing tool used in QuickFox Notes. In order to free space in QuickFox Notes' window, notes that are barely in use can be moved to "Archive".
QuickFox Notes via shortcut?
[A] Yes, try Ctrl+Shift+F;
possible to change this shortcut as well: In your address bar, type "about:config".
"InBasic.QuickFoxNotes.modifier"
InBasic.QuickFoxNotes.key".
h "Google" word suggestion/calculator feature?
type a portion of the first word ("Fire" in this example) and press F1 (F1 will search Google for only one word before the cursor's position;
can be used as an online calculator as well.
select the whole expression and right click on it, then choose "Google suggestion based on selected text":