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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on January 03, 2012, 03:57 PM »

It's worse than sluggish, on my system...

What is your system (in summary)?

-IainB (January 02, 2012, 11:56 PM)

Vista Home Premium, UAC On, user account, but that seems irrelevant since Berry's post explaining NoteFrog's disjunction with the standard Windows way of doing things.

A FAQ is now built into NoteFrog...

Sorry, I meant built-in to a stack (so you can edit/copy bits of it on an ad/hoc basis) - which I don't think it is at present.

-IainB (January 02, 2012, 11:56 PM)

No, I haven't seen one either.  You mean like the Help file for Horst Schaeffer's MemPad, which is itself a MemPad file.

A helpful idea with AZZ Cardfile and ListPro; their Web sites have selections of free sample files to get you started.  Berry kindly sent me a "presidents.dbs" as a sample, and it would be nice to see sample files for NoteFrog, perhaps user-contributed ones.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on January 03, 2012, 03:50 PM »

I sincerely appreciate your comments as they make me aware of a disconnect between NoteFrog and some other notekeepers.

-berry (January 02, 2012, 03:56 PM)

This is true, but I'm a little concerned at encouraging you down the well-trodden path, in the sense that if everybody's doing everything the same way, nobody's doing anything better.  Perhaps that's just Windows imposing standard ways of doing things that one can't really escape from.

For example, the "Home" and "End" keys are not activated in NoteFrog at present

-berry (January 02, 2012, 03:56 PM)

The move the cursor to top/bottom of the list, which added to my confusion.

Thanks for the clarification!

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Living Room / Re: For the Facebook Haters ;)

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 02:51 PM »

I'm surprised Facebook even allows that since it devalues the whole "liking" process.

-40hz (January 02, 2012, 02:48 PM)

Good point.  Then it becomes a bit like all the "awards" that some software sites trumpet, completely meaningless.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Program Will Not Start After Download and Install

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 02:47 PM »

The icon is in task bar and tells me to left click for . . double left for  etc.  but clicks mean nothing.

-smmbcj (December 31, 2011, 05:24 PM)

When I load CHS and left click the tray icon, I get a popup like the first screenshot.  I hadn't used it for a few days, so there weren't any New clips in it to show on the popup.  I added some, repeated the left click, and got the list shown in the second screenshot.

Do you mean you don't see this kind of popup at all?

I just uninstalled this and was told the program was running.  Why can I not see it?

-smmbcj (December 31, 2011, 05:24 PM)

CHS normally runs in the background.  It minimises to the tray, and if you bring up the main window and press Alt-F4, it still minimises to the tray.  You'd need to right-click the tray icon and Exit, of main window, File -> Exit, to remove it from memory.  If you didn't, it would still have been in memory when you tried to uninstall.  Sometimes Windows fails to show tray icons; is that what's happened to you?

[Edit at UK time 2012-01-02, 20:46:-]
I should add: I'm running CHS as Portable, under Vista Home Premium, UAC On, from a user account.
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Living Room / Re: For the Facebook Haters ;)

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 02:17 PM »

I don't like the way that a Facebook account is becoming expected.  For example, both my local library and the church in the village have groups on Facebook.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 02:11 PM »

Is it best to contact you each via email or may we continue the discussion here?

-berry (December 31, 2011, 08:00 PM)

In the past you've said - if I remember correctly - that you offered support by e-mail rather than by forum, but it's your program, it's up to you.  As NoteFrog grows in popularity, you might find a forum helpful because then you have more experienced users to field questions, and you have all the queries, suggestions, bug reports etc. in one place rather than (as IainB points out) in a whole lot of separate sealed boxes.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 02:07 PM »

Your version is v1.9.0?
I think the latest version is v1.9.1 - I tried an earlier version - v1.8.0.
I don't think I ever had a v1.9.0 [...]

There was something in the blog about which version to use.

-IainB (December 31, 2011, 07:40 PM)

It's here: Release 1.9.1 and says:

We’ve made a change to Tooltips in an attempt to fix the occasional “non display” of tooltips a few users have experienced.

If you have not had any tooltip issues, there is no need for you to install this release.

I hadn't noticed any problems - to be honest, I hadn't noticed any tooltips though I have now, so didn't see a need to upgrade.

The arrow keys move the highlighted selector (cursor) to the next item, and the display shows the item contents. I think that's what it's supposed to do. It's sometimes a bit "laggy".

-IainB (December 31, 2011, 07:40 PM)

It's worse than sluggish, on my system, navigating by "walking down" (aka live search) the title list leaves title and note out of synch.  Viz. screenshot attached; loaded the "Presidents" database, F6 to go to title list, typed "A", "B" to go to Abraham Lincoln, body text of note stays on James Knox Polk, the first entry in the database.

I also learned quite a bit from reading the FAQ on the website (I think I suggested to Berry at some stage that the FAQ be incorporated as a Stack in the install, so it could be referenced as a user guide).

-IainB (December 31, 2011, 07:40 PM)

A FAQ is now built into NoteFrog - click the top right button, the one with the spanner and frog's eye, and you get the NoteFrog (TM) Help, Tools & Utilities window popping up.  The first entry under "Online or Offline - Open in This Window" is "NoteFrog FAQ."

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 01:46 PM »

"Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen"

-berry (December 31, 2011, 09:27 PM)

I heard part of a program on BBC Radio that suggested that the Greeks who rowed triremes might have been the greatest every athletes - and that their like has died out.

Finished "A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire". Great.

-berry (December 31, 2011, 09:27 PM)

That's been out for some years, but seems to be getting very popular.  My county library stock has multiple copies, at least one of which has its home at the branch I use, but it's never on the shelf and there's a constant waiting list.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TreeProjects 40% off

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2012, 11:35 AM »

I am using some of the others (TreeDbNotes is always crisp, Keynote-NF [...] AllMyNotes Organizer and AmiPages and Treepad round out most of my standard note group, while considering the TreeProjects and InfoQube in a special categoty, as well as Evernote)

-Steven Avery (December 24, 2011, 04:28 PM)

Isn't this a serious problem?  You end up with so many note-keepers  with only slightly different capabilities, you can never find the note you want because you can't remember which application it's in?  Which makes one wonder if keeping notes in plain text or RTF files and using something like BareGrep Pro or a desktop search engine like Archivarius might be the best way to keep information?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2011, 04:47 PM »

Using 1.9.0, an oddity?  If I'm in the left pane of note titles, and do a "live search" that takes me to a different note, or press Home or End, the note pane stays on the old note, even if I then press Enter.  But if I navigate up and down the title list with the arrow keys, the note changes with the title the cursor is on.  I expected the body text of the note to always match the note title the cursor is on.

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2011, 03:41 PM »

She's going on a chopping trip!

-cranioscopical (December 31, 2011, 11:43 AM)

Oh, groan!  Trust you!  

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2011, 03:38 PM »

anand, what do you mean by the planned "Pasteboard " feature, please?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 31, 2011, 03:32 PM »

Well, after e-mailing Berry, I've upgraded my Version 1 license from a Bits du Jour offer, to a lifetime license, using the DC discount!  Thanks, Berry!

My point about the colours is not that you can't change them, more that a more, er, sober (aka standard, dull, boring?) colour scheme out of the box and in screenshots might make NoteFrog look more "professional."

I'm also slightly puzzled about the program's focus.  I was imagining something like AZZ Cardfile, a one-dimensional notekeeper, much like EverNote and CintaNotes too.  NoteFrog's home page indicates that's indeed so.  It also has clipboard enhancement functions - yet it doesn't have some of the clipboard features that I expect to see in a respectable clipboard extender.  Those include:

• Ability to ignore clips from given programs, particularly password programs like KeePass, for security
• Automatic purging of old clips by date (or number of clips)
• Permanent clips.  I realise one can have multiple stacks, but in that case I'd like to have a hotkey to navigate between stacks.
• Not so important - ability to ignore clips above/below given sizes

Maybe some of these will make it into the imminent Version 2 series?

[Edit at UK time 2011-12-31, 22:07:-]
Addendum:  I see Berry has changed the colour scheme on the NoteFrog home page 

I also see that an example use is "Accounts, passwords, PIN numbers."  Well, I'd need it to be encrypted for those uses, presumably by having stacks encryptable individually.
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[Edit at UK time 2011-12-31, 22:35:-]
Oops, just found "Edit stack password" and the "New/Edit stack" screen with password entry on it 
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Best E-mail Client / Re: E-mail client recommendations

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2011, 03:20 PM »

Allen did a favourable DC mini-review of GeminiSoft Pimmy, but you might find it too lightweight.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 30, 2011, 02:51 PM »

that bright yellow-green background has to be one of the worser advertisements one can make for oneself through a screenshot alone.

-worstje (December 29, 2011, 09:12 PM)

It's nice if software is "fun," but I've thought the same as you, the colour scheme and the frog are maybe doing it a disservice in marketing terms.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 29, 2011, 03:37 PM »

I took this as a BBCode editor from the screenshot, but that is just what you happened to be editing, right?

-daddydave (December 29, 2011, 03:32 PM)

That's right, see screenshot from a "presidents" file HT Consulting gave me to play with.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 29, 2011, 03:21 PM »

I know you're on a mission to make CHS the über-PIM, but I wonder if it's correct to see NoteFrog as primarily a clipboard-based program.  That's because I came at it from another direction, it looks to me superficially like AZZ Cardfile, so I was thinking of it similarly as a flat, single-dimensional notekeeper.  I know NoteFrog has two panes, but the left pane is titles only, no tree structure.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review

« Last post by rjbull on December 28, 2011, 10:29 AM »

I bought a licence when it was on Bits du Jour, but have never really used it.  I find the "stacks" model a bit odd, not being used to it, but the main reason is that it doesn't have a way of importing files in bulk.  I asked about this.  "Oh, you can drag and drop."  That's no use at all if you want to import lots of text from lots of files.  That stops it being a way of importing some of the many plain text files I have and turning them into a simple and easy to search "database."  Notice how tranglos included this very import in his Ethervane Echo, if only as a way to get you started.  Having said that, NoteFrog might be the most sensible alternative to the good but apparently abandoned AZZ Cardfile.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rjbull on December 27, 2011, 05:37 PM »

Just finished:

White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick.
Two lives, two centuries apart, living in the same house, obsessed by the same question.
How far would you go to prove there's life after death?
This is fairly billed as a modern gothic thriller.  I'm glad I finished it before Christmas: it's macabre, gruesome, and chilling.  It's also well-written.

Just finished:
Outrage by Arnaldur Indriðason.
If you're a fan of Nordic thrillers, this is (one of) the Icelandic offering(s).  It's a bit different from the earlier ones; Erlendur has gone to the Eastern Fjords, leaving Elinborg to solve the mystery.

Current book in progress:
Snuff by Sir Terry Pratchett.
'Nuff said? 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TreeProjects 40% off

« Last post by rjbull on December 24, 2011, 02:39 PM »

man, yet another notetaking app.  How am I going to choose??  [...]  I was this close to purchasing rightnote, too.

-superboyac (December 23, 2011, 05:19 PM)

You sure said it    So many of them that my memory was faulty - I was confusing TreeProjects with RightNote!    There just doesn't seem to be a definitive best program in this category.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary updated to Version:3.50 (Build 689)

« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2011, 03:38 PM »

Thanks from me too - didn't know about the forum before  

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Listary Pro for $9.95 on 17 December

« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2011, 03:32 PM »

I'm now using both: DF I think is marginally the better product but that might just be because I'm more used to it.

-oblivion (December 23, 2011, 10:26 AM)

I've used Listary far more than DF, but I think Listary has more features, without their getting in your way.  It's an excellent piece of kit.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo Photo Commander 9: $9.99

« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2011, 03:26 PM »

I'm beginning to wonder about all these image editors.  There are so many of them now.  Maybe we need a DC review   

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General Software Discussion / Re: adding tab support to apps that dont have it

« Last post by rjbull on December 23, 2011, 03:23 PM »

plus there is Metapad talked about

-cmpm (December 23, 2011, 12:31 PM)

If that's this Metapad, then I don't think it supports multiple files in tabs.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: 3 Feature Ideas

« Last post by rjbull on December 21, 2011, 04:55 PM »

4) Word count tool

-jshare (December 21, 2011, 04:34 AM)

Character count is - sort of, I think - already built in.  You have to edit the columns you want shown, check the DataSize one, and make sure it shows up in the grid.  See screenshot.  I'm only guessing that DataSize equates directly to character count, though.  I can't see word count as such.  You could probably use an external program like unix `wc` as a Custom Script Tool, but that wouldn't give you an answer directly inside CHS.