Some feature requests
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:50 am
Really REALLY like this, particularly the portability. Having my latest notes with me wherever I am is invaluable... I've been using Evernote for quite a few years but it's become too feature-rich for a simple note-clipper, and I can't cope with the post-it note style programs. This look set to take its place.
A few suggestion based on my usage experience so far of the M5 version:
1) Allow the Cintra main window to be resized narrower - I've got a wide screen monitor and like to have something like this narrow but deep at the side of the screen so I can see the notes alongside what I'm working on. At the moment, it's locked at a minimum width of about 400px wide, which means it partially underlies whatever editing program I'm working with. I can't see the reason for this.
2) A "shrink on screen" option. My system tray isn't too overcrowded but the less that goes in there, the better IMHO. At the moment I use Winroll http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/ to roll it up to just the title bar out of the way, and despite the warning on the Winroll site there, I can still use my hot key "copy and paste" combo to send a new note to it. Maybe a "minimize to tab" option or even a built in button that does the same might be useful for other users.
3) I want to position the main window top right in the monitor... but when I do this, the edit window opens partially off screen - it seems to be centred over the main Cintra window - resizing it and repositioning it isn't "sticky" when I close it. As soon as I open another edit window it's partially back off screen again. Can this be made sticky in size and position so that it opens consistantly where I want it?
4) One thing I've been using Cintra for is to store URLs when doing a browsing session - I don't particularly want to clog up the bookmarks on the browser, I can be selective. But then I can't drag to select and then paste directly out of the resulting note displayed in the list on the main Cintra window - I have to open the edit view, which is a pain when all I want is a line of text. Which is frustrating given the edit positioning problem above!
5) When I select "copy" then "paste" from the main Cintra window, the note is pasted into my document with the date, time and note title. Most times I don't want this and have to delete it. See 4) above! Could this behaviour be toggled off in options in a future version?
6) When I have a note edit window open, and I hit my "copy and paste" hotkey, it creates a new note. I expected it to paste into the open edit window! It's no big deal as I can merge the two notes, but It would be useful to have an option to control the behaviour of the hotkey copy command when the note edit window is open? Perhaps a menu-selectable option selectable to paste into the open edit window / create a new note, and a third option that pops up a radio button choice box when the hotkey is pressed
7) After copying and pasting via the hotkey combo, I'd prefer focus returned to the document that a note has just been copied from, rather than left with the Cintra main window.
One small bug - I can roll up the main note window with Winroll, but when I unroll it, the text fails to display until I switch focus to another program.
Hope this doesn't seem too negative... it never ceases to amaze me that guys like you can create little masterpieces like this and present them as freeware. Brilliant work!
A few suggestion based on my usage experience so far of the M5 version:
1) Allow the Cintra main window to be resized narrower - I've got a wide screen monitor and like to have something like this narrow but deep at the side of the screen so I can see the notes alongside what I'm working on. At the moment, it's locked at a minimum width of about 400px wide, which means it partially underlies whatever editing program I'm working with. I can't see the reason for this.
2) A "shrink on screen" option. My system tray isn't too overcrowded but the less that goes in there, the better IMHO. At the moment I use Winroll http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/ to roll it up to just the title bar out of the way, and despite the warning on the Winroll site there, I can still use my hot key "copy and paste" combo to send a new note to it. Maybe a "minimize to tab" option or even a built in button that does the same might be useful for other users.
3) I want to position the main window top right in the monitor... but when I do this, the edit window opens partially off screen - it seems to be centred over the main Cintra window - resizing it and repositioning it isn't "sticky" when I close it. As soon as I open another edit window it's partially back off screen again. Can this be made sticky in size and position so that it opens consistantly where I want it?
4) One thing I've been using Cintra for is to store URLs when doing a browsing session - I don't particularly want to clog up the bookmarks on the browser, I can be selective. But then I can't drag to select and then paste directly out of the resulting note displayed in the list on the main Cintra window - I have to open the edit view, which is a pain when all I want is a line of text. Which is frustrating given the edit positioning problem above!
5) When I select "copy" then "paste" from the main Cintra window, the note is pasted into my document with the date, time and note title. Most times I don't want this and have to delete it. See 4) above! Could this behaviour be toggled off in options in a future version?
6) When I have a note edit window open, and I hit my "copy and paste" hotkey, it creates a new note. I expected it to paste into the open edit window! It's no big deal as I can merge the two notes, but It would be useful to have an option to control the behaviour of the hotkey copy command when the note edit window is open? Perhaps a menu-selectable option selectable to paste into the open edit window / create a new note, and a third option that pops up a radio button choice box when the hotkey is pressed
7) After copying and pasting via the hotkey combo, I'd prefer focus returned to the document that a note has just been copied from, rather than left with the Cintra main window.
One small bug - I can roll up the main note window with Winroll, but when I unroll it, the text fails to display until I switch focus to another program.
Hope this doesn't seem too negative... it never ceases to amaze me that guys like you can create little masterpieces like this and present them as freeware. Brilliant work!