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Post New Requests Here / BattCursor v1.2.0.0 works fine, is last/latest version, dates from 2009-04-22.

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2016, 02:13 PM »

...Despite this, the software seems to work OK so far. The change log history looks quite comprehensive and informative too - all nicely done.
I read on there that the forum server was being provided via a relatively new service supplier, so maybe they are having some teething troubles with it, or something. I shall try to post feedback again after a couple of days' elapsed time.

-IainB (October 29, 2014, 08:11 PM)

I never did post that feedback, but, after having re-installed BattCursor on a Win10-64 environment recently, I thought I should mention that the latest version is still v1.2.0.0 and dates from 2009-04-22. The website seems to not function in English any more and it looks like it may have been discontinued, but you can still find it on Wayback OK, though you can't seem to download the file from there.

I have a note from 2015-06-29: disable this software from automatically downloading updates. It tries to load with software from MK Software, and crashes the installer and the app.

As at 2016-01-28, this is still the case, as it thinks v1.2.0.1 is available, but it's evidently not.
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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« Last post by IainB on January 21, 2016, 04:45 AM »

...now that so many otherwise intelligent people are embracing unreason as the answer to all those problems that really have no easy answer. But so it goes.
Unfortunately, there's a fine line between belief and mania. ...
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-40hz (January 20, 2016, 03:54 PM)

I suspect that you may have drawn that line in possibly the "wrong" place.
If belief is defined as:

belief
· n.
1 an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. Ø a firmly held opinion or conviction. Ø a religious conviction.
2 (belief in) trust or confidence in.
– PHRASES beyond belief astonishing; incredible.
– ORIGIN ME: alt. of OE gelUafa; cf. believe.
Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)

- then it is, by definition, irrational/unreason (where unreason is a state of absurdity).

Thus, the dividing line is arguably properly between the domains of reason and unreason, where unreason could perhaps be said to extend from curable irrationality (by use of reason) through to incurable mania, and there's no real dividing line between those two things, being merely degrees of irrationality and where the latter is merely an extreme state of irrationality.

|<---Reason--->|<---unreason--->|

Examples of this latter state can be seen where people might speak from a paradigm where they perceive, for example:

"Humanity has wrecked the planet  and is the problem that needs fixing."
or
"Humanity is a cancer on the earth."
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A psychiatrist might probably suggest that these paradigms could arise from belief (which is irrational, QED) and possibly coupled with a legacy of poor self-image and a sense of hopelessness inflicted by an unhappy experience of childhood upbringing or teaching.
Regardless of however such an irrational paradigm might have been arrived at, the ego of the person involved would generally be incapable of digging itself out of what is effectively an imagined and illusory state of association, and so the illusion seems very real and is defended almost to the death. De Bono discusses this in his book "Teaching Thinking". It is intellectual deadlock and can be a causal factor in our inability to change and develop. We become literally "stuck", and perceive no possible room or need for our change/improvement. A profound example of this could be that of the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Höss:

...Consider how an otherwise apparently nice, normal family man in the military - Rudolf Höss - could also happily undertake the role as the Commandant of the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi Germany. Höss' autobiography, written whilst he was awaiting execution after the trial for war crimes, indicates that he was unable to see that he had been doing anything other than "just doing his job" to the best of his ability.[2]
...

    Following on from the Höss example above, there is evidence that Höss was able to eventually consciously shatter the illusion and begin his own path to spiritual development when, four days before he was hanged, he sent a message to the state prosecutor, including these comments:

        "My conscience compels me to make the following declaration. In the solitude of my prison cell I have come to the bitter recognition that I have sinned gravely against humanity. As Commandant of Auschwitz I was responsible for carrying out part of the cruel plans of the "Third Reich" for human destruction. In so doing I have inflicted terrible wounds on humanity. I caused unspeakable suffering for the Polish people in particular. I am to pay for this with my life. May the Lord God forgive one day what I have done."[3]

From: Ahamkara
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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« Last post by IainB on January 20, 2016, 12:15 AM »

...First, what I'd like is a nice sandbox to run scenarios through with zero real consequences. That would rock~!
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-Renegade (January 19, 2016, 09:58 PM)

I think you might be confusing what seems to happen in what we see as "the world around us" with a concept called "reality".
This is the sandbox.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Move Aside Please

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2016, 09:21 PM »

This might be of interest. It is something similar that I cribbed together from someone else's existing script(s) a while back. I've used it for a few years. It's a toggle to be activated for the in-focus window you are working on. After activation, moving the mouse to the edge of the in-focus window then makes it momentarily fully transparent (invisible), so that you can look at any windows underneath it. Moving the mouse back to where the in-focus window was then returns that window to full opacity.
It could probably be of more use if the focus could also be changed so you could (say) copy text from a layer exposed below, and then return to the  in-focus screen you started with to (say) paste the text - but that's probably a bit hairy, if not redundant - given Alt-Tab.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. <+^U::  ; Ctrl+LeftShift+Ctrl+U loads PeekUnder subroutine - TOGGLE FUNCTION
2.         Gosub, PeekUnder     ; Peek under a window by making it transparent
3.         return
4. ;   somewhere later in the script...
5. PeekUnder:   ;Triggered by LeftShift+RightShift+P
6. MsgBox,64,PeekUnder,- is now active. Toggle On/Off with Shift+Ctrl+U,2
7. OnExit Cleanup
8. LWin & LButton::
9. if HideWindow =       ; Not set => Activate now
10. {
11.    MouseGetPos,,,HideWindow  ; Window ID under mouse
12.    SetTimer TransWindow, 150
13. }
14. Else {                       ; Already set => Stop, Restore
15.    SetTimer TransWindow, Off
16.    IfWinNotExist ahk_id %HideWindow%, Return
17.    WinActivate ahk_id %HideWindow%
18.    WinSet Transparent, 255, ahk_id %HideWindow%
19.    HideWindow =
20. }
21. Return
22.  
23. TransWindow:
24.   CoordMode Mouse, Relative
25.    MouseGetPos X, Y, Window
26.    WinGetPos,,,X1, Y1, ahk_id %HideWindow%
27.    If ( Window = HideWindow && X > 4 && Y > 4 && X < X1-5 && Y < Y1-5 )
28.         WinSet Transparent, 255, ahk_id %HideWindow%
29.    Else WinSet Transparent,   1, ahk_id %HideWindow%
30. Return
31.  
32. Cleanup:
33.   MsgBox,64,PeekUnder,Deactivated,2
34.    IfWinExist ahk_id %HideWindow%
35.    {
36.       WinActivate ahk_id %HideWindow%
37.       WinSet Transparent, 255, ahk_id %HideWindow%
38.    }
39. ExitApp
40. ;#############################################################################

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General Software Discussion / Re: Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2016, 07:42 PM »

@mwb1100: Well, it's certainly very handy, and dead simple too. It's an ergonomic efficiency and effectiveness improvement really.

It's the only complex combo that I could construct where the key's function that you disable (CapsLock) is effectively only partially disabled (i.e., there's no Lock now) and yet it retains its usefulness for the useful part of its original function (Shift), plus you have it already physically located right next to the other Shift key (LeftShift), thus permitting a new two-left-fingers combo.

The net result from an ergonomics perspective is that the function of the CapsLock key has effectively only been modified slightly, so it behaves as a typical user might otherwise expect it to, and there are no more ALL CAPS mistakes and the (still three) Shift keys can be used interchangeably as Shift keys from the keyboard and in AHK.
In AHK it makes no difference which one you use as a purely Shift function key, but you can specify precisely which one you need, as necessary:

• +    = SHIFT - could be either a LeftSHIFT or RightSHIFT key.
• <+ = LeftSHIFT - there is still just one of these on the keyboard.
• >+ = RightSHIFT - there are two of these on the keyboard now.

Examples of my experiences, so far, of using Shift or Left/RightShift AHK hotkey combos:

To launch proggies:

• <+>+c::   ; LeftShift+RightShift+C-  loads Calculator.
• <+>+d::   ;LeftShift+RightShift+D - loads Concise Oxford Dictionary. - places any selected text in Clipboard and opens Concise Oxford Dictionary with it.
• <+>+f::   ; LShift+RShift+F - loads Firefox (does not work as SHIFT sensing brings up disable add-ons screen).
• <+>+e::   ;LeftShift+RightShift+E - loads Search Everything.
• <+>+`::     ; LeftShift+RightShift+`  - loads FARR (Tilde on its own brings up FARR if it is already running.
• <+>+g::   ; LeftShift+RightShift+G - loads GetRight.
• <+>+i::   ; LeftShift+RightShift+I - loads InfoSelect.
• <+>+n::   ; LeftShift+RightShift+n - loads Notepad (EditPad Lite 7) with 3 files, ready for editing.

To launch AHK utilities:

• >+#H:: ; RightSHIFT+Win+H - Display panel of Windows system hotkeys.
• >+#O:: ; RightSHIFT+Win+O - Display panel of OneNote hotkeys per OneNote Help.
• <+^d::  ; LeftShift+Ctrl+d - outputs current date+time.
• <+^H::   ; LeftShift+Ctrl+h - displays Autohotkey Help file.
• <+^r::   ; LeftShift+Ctrl+R - Reloads/Restarts Autohotkey main script.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2016, 05:26 AM »

The reason I originally mapped CapsLock to LeftShift was to improve the ergonomics for users - to disable the unwanted lock function, whilst still leaving the Shift function intact - so that users could still rely on a Shift function if they hit CapsLock by mistake. So nothing really changed for the user, except they made no ALL CAPS mistakes anymore. (Most users would be unlikely to require to type ALL CAPS anyway, as it is bad practice, and there's a font for that if they needed it.)

When I twigged that by mapping it to RightShift instead I could get the same Shift function and the 26+ unique key combos, I was quite pleased in that you'd have to deliberately press the newly-remapped CapsLock+LeftShift + Alpha key, and it would be relatively unlikely to occur by accident. So no accidental triggers.

@Nod5: Though I quite like your idea of making CapsLock effectively "null" unless pressed together with another alpha key, I couldn't recommend adopting it as general practice, as, from an ergonomics perspective, it is a bit risky - i.e., not foolproof. That is because its function becomes quite changed to what would be expected and users are still just as likely to unwittingly hold down the CapsLock key or the LeftShift key, together with an alpha key, when wanting to type capital letters. So they could be inadvertently triggering applications by chance all the time!

I test all these things out on my kids' PCs first, before recommending them as general practice. ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by IainB on January 18, 2016, 07:50 AM »

damn IainB...I just came across a couple of blasts from the past regarding you...
...around 2010, you had sent me some documents to help me with process flow stuff.  crazy stuff.  I remember trying that out at my job.
And before that, maybe around 2007, your hilarious comment to my informal coffee club at work about why the girl has all the cleaning responsibilities.  lol!!  time flies!!

-superboyac (January 16, 2016, 09:59 PM)

I'm not absolutely sure, but as I recall it, I/we used Google WAVE on that process flow stuff. I still have a copy of that somewhere.
I don't recall the coffee club joke.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey

« Last post by IainB on January 18, 2016, 07:23 AM »

@MilesAhead:

...In this case I hit qq<tab> where the tab key is designated as the key to terminate hotstring sequences.  Another program is not likely to use it as an accelerator sequence.

-MilesAhead (January 17, 2016, 04:43 PM)

Thanks. I didn't know that about <tab>. That's a nifty idea.

@Nod5:

...we can already make a hotkey combo out of Left Shift + CapsLock + some other key without remapping Right Shift. ...

-Nod5 (January 18, 2016, 06:42 AM)

I should probably have mentioned that, with the original objective of getting rid of CapsLock (which I found to be a really annoying key and one for which I had no use), I just remapped it with LeftShift. Then when I later found myself running up against conflicting key combos already in use - i.e., being grabbed by Windows or different applications - I belatedly realised that by remapping CapsLock to RightShift instead, I could get 26+ unique and "infeasible" key combos that no system proggy or application was likely to want.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Winkey g Google Search ahk quickie

« Last post by IainB on January 16, 2016, 05:48 PM »

May be relevant: X-posted Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey

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General Software Discussion / Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey

« Last post by IainB on January 16, 2016, 05:30 PM »

Give yourself at least another 26 unique hotkey combos with Microsoft's remapkey (or other key remapping tool).

I was prompted to mention this upon reading this:

is it easy to change the hotkey combination?

-Curt (January 14, 2016, 04:40 PM)

what do you want to change it to?

[ Invalid Attachment ]

^This^ is the bit you need to change -- I always forget (I *think Ctrl='^'), and need to look up the AHK site.
I know from the screenshot that:
# = Winkey
and that's it....

so,
only half a solution -- or maybe just a quarter ;-)
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-tomos (January 14, 2016, 05:28 PM)

What sort of use would a ridiculous hotkey combo LeftShift+RightShift+I be?
For me, it is very useful, as I use that as an AHK hotkey to launch InfoSelect, and I use the combo LeftShift+RightShift+V to launch the VLC media player. The LeftShift+RightShift combo keys are very handy, as no-one in their right mind would generally have a use for that combo, so they are "all yours".

It's not that I have a huge hand span or anything. I select the LeftShift+RightShift keys with the first two fingers of my left hand, and the next character with right or left hand fingers, depending on where the key is.

I can do that by the simple expedient of remapping the RightShift key to the CapsLock key. Of course, if you have a use for the latter key, then another key would be required. The objective would be to give yourself a ridiculous pair of keys close together.

The only caveat I would have is that the Win10 updates seem to set the keyboard mappings back to the standard default - and they also restore file associations to the standard default too. Updates to earlier Windows OS versions didn't used to do those things.
Hope this tip helps or is of use to someone. It's been very useful to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Winkey g Google Search ahk quickie

« Last post by IainB on January 16, 2016, 04:46 PM »

For Firefox users, it might be worth noting here about the search prefixes offered by the Instantfox Firefox add-on - http://www.instantfox.net/
You just type in to the URL bar. You could also (say) invoke them with FARR aliases, like the "dc searchstring" I use for searching in the DC forum.
Prefix keys (which can be changed by the user) include, for example:
g » G/Search  | e » eBay
i » G/Images   | b » Bing
m » G/Maps    | yh » Yahoo
y » YouTube    | a » Amazon
t » Twitter        | f » W.f/cast
w » Wikipedia  | c » Calculator
wa » WolframAlpha

I don't always remember the correct prefixes to use, so I have them on a Stick A Note that can be brought up in the top RH corner on any web page in Firefox. (Kudos to @anandcoral.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by IainB on January 16, 2016, 04:30 PM »

2016-01-17 1123hrs: Just made some changes to my last comment above: Added further notes about right-click Move and Copy functions.
I had previously omitted to mention the page Move/Copy, and how useful these were - compared to drag-and-drop. Limiting the user to manually having to copy/move pages or sections around in or between Notebooks would probably be taking the Notebook metaphor a bit too far. ...

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General Software Discussion / Firefox Extensions: YouTube Center.

« Last post by IainB on January 14, 2016, 07:37 PM »

Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express 9.02
HTML5 Player for YouTube™ 0.1.0
YouTube High Definition 41.0

As you already use Greasemonkey, have you considered replacing these three by one userscript yet?
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-Tuxman (October 12, 2015, 04:24 AM)

This looked pretty interesting, but I noticed today that the Mozilla add-on site has comments indicating that the add-on is not working and development seems to have come to a grinding halt.
 
From the developer at GitHub, the explanation is (not sure of the date posted):

As of many of you know. I have not been actively developing on YouTube Center and there's a good reason for that. I have acquired a full time job, which leaves not much time for development. ...
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It's a bugger when one gets a job, eh?   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by IainB on January 11, 2016, 09:15 PM »

Anyhow, are you aware of a trick to send notes from one notebook to another?

-dantheman (January 11, 2016, 08:02 PM)

There is no "trick". The Notebook metaphor is relatively consistently applied in the 3-pane GUI. There are straightforward and relatively foolproof operations to move stuff around, though if one does make a mistake - as one does, sometimes      - then the Ctrl-Z (undo history) hotkey shows itself to be a highly reliable lifesaver, and the Recycled pages are searched for content by default and can provide a useful backstop for recovery (they are auto-deleted after 60 days, by default). You get warnings where specific actions cannot be undone.

Operations which need to be learned here include:

• You can cut-and-paste or copy-and-paste pages and discrete bits of page contents pretty much wherever you want.
• You can drag-and-drop individual pages or groups of pages (including the collapsible/indented type of Page Groups) within sections in a Notebook, and between Notebooks.
  Very useful: You can also right-click Move or Copy individual pages, sending them to somewhere else within a Notebook or to other Notebooks.
• You can drag-and-drop discrete sections (including the special collapsible Section Groups).
  Very useful: You can also right-click Move or Copy individual sections within a Notebook and between Notebooks.
• You can right-click Merge (with options) discrete sections into other discrete sections within a Notebook and between Notebooks.

When I was trying to fix a corrupted Cloud-based Notebook, I learned to use the above operations and it made light work of an otherwise tedious job. It turned out that only one page had been partially corrupted, but it did make me wary about Cloud-based Notebooks. I have never yet had a corrupted client-based Notebook, despite thrashing the application and making it crash from time to time. It always seems to fail safe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by IainB on January 11, 2016, 04:04 PM »

@dantheman:
It looks like you probably need to tell the extension to collect the URLs, as it does not do so by default.

I had never used the OneNote Clipper Chrome extension provided by Microsoft, so I just now fired up Google Chrome "Canary" (the Beta channel version) and installed the OneNote Clipper extension.
Then I went to the page: chrome://extensions/ and scrolled down till I found the extension description listed there, and then checked/ticked the box at the bottom of the extension description where it says "Allow access to file URLs", and it worked just fine regardless of whether you used the Clipper to get a screenshot image of that whole webpage, or just the image of a selected area of the webpage, or just the rough RTF text (sans images) of the article on that webpage.

I must say the extension for Chrome seems to work very nicely - pity they don't provide one for Firefox like that! (They provide a cruddy bookmarklet instead, which uses Java, and it doesn't work on my installation of Firefox.)
I presume the reasoning is that the Clipper tool is specifically only issued to save clippings to the default Quick Notes section of the Cloud-based "Notebook" they provide for "FREE"** - so you have to login to your Outlook account before it can capture clips. I have mentioned elsewhere that IMHO that seems to be a cynical marketing ploy and I wouldn't recommend it as the cloud-based app has very little useful functionality. It's a "teaser".

The only really useful OneNote is the one where you have the full-blown OneNote app installed on the PC client, as delivered with the MS Office suite of proggies. With that you can put your Notebooks all in the Cloud environment, or all on the client PC environment, or distributed across both. I mention that above, and that I have some concerns regarding the apparently high potential for corrupted Cloud-based Notebooks - as discovered by myself and many other users. Reading about the user problems/issues with OneNote, as described on the discussion forums, is quite an eye-opener.

**If you have the full MS Office installed, then  you can specify in OneNote whatever default sections you want set for clippings to be sent to, on whichever environment. However, these settings can not override the fixed settings of the Clipper tool as released for the "FREE" OneNote. Rather confusing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by IainB on January 11, 2016, 08:57 AM »

That's odd. Maybe I misunderstand you.
I always get the source URL tagged on when I copy text from Firefox or IE11, then alt-tab to OneNote, and then paste it into OneNote.
Similarly when I bring up the New quick note Systray app to make the copy/paste or the Linked notes function (see the Review tab in the OneNote ribbon to get the latter directly).
I used to use a third party add-on called Clip to OneNote, but it broke with a newer version of OneNote, and then became redundant anyway.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Compressing files into multiple .zip archives with each .zip being independent

« Last post by IainB on January 10, 2016, 10:13 PM »

Hi,
I just started to use this (wonderful) tool but I do have a specific requirement : when you compress files from a sub-directory structure like:
c:\users\test\zipfiles\1
the created zip also contains the above sub-directory structure.
I would like to have an option that enables me to create a zip file that strips all path info, leaving all the files in the "top-level".
Possible?
Thanks,
Anthony
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-anthonyaykut (January 08, 2013, 08:11 AM)

Not sure whether this will be what you want, but:
STEP 1: If you use xplorer² (or a similarly flexible file management tool) it can give you a "flat file" view of all files in a set of nested directories.
STEP 2: You can then remove from that view any files you are not interested in. That leaves you with just the ones you are interested in.
STEP 3: You can then select them all and save them en bloc to a .ZIP archive sans folders/paths.

Alternative to STEP 2 and STEP 3: Select just those files you are interested in and save them en bloc to a .ZIP archive sans folders/paths.

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General Software Discussion / Potential alternatives to OneNote-Zettelkasten (link to discussion in DC Forum).

« Last post by IainB on January 10, 2016, 05:33 PM »

This might be relevant to optimising the use of OneNote Notebooks (databases).
I just stumbled upon this discussion from 2014 in the DC Forum: Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"
I don't recall having read all of that discussion, but I made a post on it at the end regarding MyInfo**. The thread itself seems relevant to what I posted about regarding Microsoft OneNote - how to make it your 21st century Zettelkasten PIM.

I have copied below in full a comment by @dr_andus that seemed particularly relevant, and it is full of useful information, some of it pointing to what could be considered as potential alternatives to the OneNote Zettelkasten approach that I was describing. I had in any event actually looked at and trialled all of the apps mentioned (and more, but with one exception), and variously discounted them for my peculiar purposes/requirements - with CT (Connected Text) being a rather good runner-up. The rest of the thread is worth re-reading IMHO. A reminder that the DC Forum can be a veritable treasure trove of pretty useful discussions and ideas over the years, and that may retain currency and relevance with our needs today and potentially for the future.

Tomos is probably right in that it also depends on the nature of the data being organised. The tree-like hierarchy clearly works for TaoPhoenix and many other people, otherwise hierarchical software like UltraRecall, RightNote, MyInfo etc. wouldn't be around.

The scenarios I'm talking about have to do with organising a large number of small chunks of text (with occasional images or links to other files and websites), such as a database of quotes and reading notes that one collects over a lifetime. In that situation it is not all that useful to organise these items into trees at the time of collecting or creating them because they are being gathered for later consumption, where they may be re-used for different purposes. It would be more important to label/categorise them, so that they would turn up in relevant searches.

The method I'm using is called the Zettelkasten (slip box) method, developed initially by a sociologist called Niklas Luhmann. If you do a search for it, you can find sites that explain it.

One category of software to implement this system are personal/desktop wikis. I use ConnectedText, but as I said, it's got a steep learning curve, it took me several tries over several years to finally start using it. Zim is another one.

There are some cross-over software that try to combine the tree with a wiki. E.g. Wikidpad, Whizfolders, or Outwiker.

There is also Luedecke's Zettelkasten software.

Piggydb is another interesting approach.

Is this sort of program beyond what we might hope for on donationcoder.com?

Not necessarily. There are some very simple implementations of the Zettelkasten out there, such as using nvALT on Mac or ResophNotes on Windows. Apparently it's even possible to create a desktop wiki using AutoHotkey.
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-dr_andus (February 16, 2014, 04:13 AM)

The exception that I referred to is the desktop wiki using AutoHotkey - the link goes to a post from 2009 that I do not recall having read before, in the excellent blog Taking note. That blog has long been in my feed-reader as a very useful and informative source of information and analysis of "Taking Note"-related software and practices, and which also sometimes explores scripting coding in detail - of which, the post linked to is a arguably a good example.   

This CRIMPer is now going to have to trial the script and see...   

**MyInfo: It was my comment about MyInfo that made me realise that it I was due to re-trial the latest version of MyInfo to establish whether the somewhat serious search constraint that I had observed had been remedied in the latest version.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS is unusable on High DPI Screens

« Last post by IainB on January 08, 2016, 06:50 AM »

Sadlement, there's not much difference here...it's a negligible difference, at best.
Worth a try anyway. Good idea to have the DPI_aware toggle.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / SQL statements help: Automate Virtual Folder creation from Search string.

« Last post by IainB on January 07, 2016, 12:07 PM »

From: Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.25.03 Beta - Oct 5, 2014

New feature automates the creation of SQL for a new Virtual Folder, using the Search string. This (see emboldened item below) is potentially a real timesaver and can avoid having to mess about with SQL:

I've added a couple of important features to the beta; i'd appreciate any bug reports.
New stuff:

• [Feature] New clip grid menu items for creating new groups based on selection (moves clips) or search (creates a virtual group).
• [Feature] Group tree drop target is now highlighting while dragging over it.
• [Feature] Quick search/filter now provides a drop-down of favorite searches; set favorites in the Misc. Options 2 tab.
• [Feature] Better statusbar info about selected group; reports total # clips in view and # selected.

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-mouser (October 05, 2014, 02:41 PM)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / SQL statements help: Create a Virtual Folder to show clips containing URLs.

« Last post by IainB on January 07, 2016, 10:52 AM »

Refer: Creating a virtual clip group in CHS to show you all clips with URLs in them

...you could change

[Select]

(Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%http%') OR (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%www.%')

to

[Select]

(Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%http://%')

that will probably reduce the false positives.
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-mouser (October 19, 2006, 11:33 PM)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / SQL statements help: correctness of table showing match Grid Field<-->SQL term.

« Last post by IainB on January 07, 2016, 10:33 AM »

@mouser: I figured I should post this to re-open this thread, since the title is appropriate, the comment I want to make follows on from the 2nd comment above, and it fits with the suggestion made here:

... Mouser ... How about you then starting a (sticky?) SQL Expressions thread, posting a few examples and inviting users to post theirs and/or suggestions of how and why they use them? ...
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-DonationCoderTransmit (July 19, 2011, 06:16 AM)

Having done some exploration/discovery in CHS lately, I needed to update the table showing the one-to-one relationship between Grid Field<-->SQL term.
Are you able to confirm whether the table image below is correct and what the 5 unattached SQL items at the bottom are? (The text from the image is in the spoiler below it.)
(Thanks in advance.)

Spoiler

Menu Image of fields   Field name   ID Menu Text   Fields available to SQL statements
      Sorted A-->Z
   ID (Record ID#)   1. Application   Application
   Parent Id (Virtual Folder ID#)   2. ApplicationPath   N/A
   Imagelndex   3. ClipFormat   N/A
   Title (Note/clip Title)   4. Created   CreationDateTime
   Ordering   5. DataSize   N/A
   Application   6. DueDate   DueDateTime
   Favorite? (True/False)   7. Excerpt   ExcerptText
   Created   8. Favorite? (True/False)   IsFavorite
   Modified   9. FileCount   N/A
   Viewed   10. FileList   N/A
   Marked   11. Flag   UserFlag
   DueDate   12. HashText   N/A
   Excerpt   13. ID (Record ID#)   Index
   Type   14. Imagelndex   ImageIndex
   Keywords   15. Keywords   UserKeywords
   Flag   16. Marked   MarkDateTime
   Rating   17. Modified   ModificationDateTime
   Notes   18. Notes   Description
   DataSize   19. Ordering   N/A
   ApplicationPath   20. ParentId (Virtual Folder ID#)   ParentId
   ClipFormat   21. Rating   UserRating
   FileList   22. Title   Title
   FileCount   23. Type   ClipType
   HashText   24. Viewed   ViewDateTime
         =============
         1. ClipText (text in Memo pane)
         2. OtherGroups (?)
         3. ParentGroup (?)
         4. Protected (?)
         5. UserCheckbox (?)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.34.0 - Jan 4, 2016

« Last post by IainB on January 07, 2016, 08:46 AM »

^ You're welcome - and thanks right back to you.   
I quite enjoy analysing software problems - if I use that software for my own purposes. It can only tend to benefit myself in the longer term.
I only tripped over it by chance, whilst doing some serious experimentation/discovery with CHS, I felt pleased to have finally found a consistent explanation of the trigger.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS - Access violation at address 0080DF94 - Read of address 00000008.

« Last post by IainB on January 07, 2016, 08:14 AM »

On 2015-05-09 using CHS v2.29.0, I got a spurious error:

Access violation at address 0080DF94 in module
'ClipboardHeIpAndSpeII.exe'. Read of address 00000008.

I was busy editing notes in CHS at the time.
The error did not stop the CHS process, but I closed CHS down and restarted it anyway, just in case, and then got CHS to Verify, Repair, Optimize database .
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-IainB (May 09, 2015, 10:55 AM)

I can better define this problem now: (see image below - actual text copy is in the spoiler below that)

Spoiler

In CHS, if you leave the cursor inside one or any (not sure if it applies to ALL) of the fields in the Grid pane, and then do a search, then the below Read of address 00000008 error occurs.
In the example below, I had left the cursor inside the Notes field when I did the search.
It seems to make no difference whether the field involved is in a record which is included as one of the search results.
This is a repeatable, non-fatal error.

Screen clipping taken: 2016-01-06 21:16
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   Clipboard Help+Spell
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   Access violation at address 0080E8C8 in module
   'ClipboardHelpAndSpell.exe'. Read of address 00000008.
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   OK   
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS is unusable on High DPI Screens

« Last post by IainB on January 06, 2016, 04:25 PM »

This probably needs to be recognised and accepted as a general problem attributable to changing technology in modern display devices.
I use CHS a great deal and I have found and mentioned before on this forum the ergonomic issue that the fonts on the Options pane are become almost too minuscule to read - and this is very probably aggravated by the glary white backgrounds on which any text appears.
Today I noticed that the problem seemed even worse when trying to read the text in a CHS Quick Note, where it seems the minuscule characters are drawn with 1 pixel-wide lines. Similarly, this is probably aggravated by the glary white background on which the text appears.

I think this problem is common to CHS, FARR, Screenshot Captor and possibly others where a common approach may have probably been used to display the Options and some other windows.
Fortunately, in CHS at least one is able to make the proggy more ergonomically usable (for which I am grateful as I use it a lot) - for the majority of the time at any rate. That is because one is able to adjust fonts and the colours of backgrounds in the main GUI - that is, the 3 panes integrated in the main CHS clip management display.

It has to be said that, ergonomically, one of the worst possible combinations for eye-strain and perceptual confusion has long been shown to be black print on a white background (sorry, Gutenberg), and when the characters become smaller (as they tend to do on higher resolution displays under Win8/10) and the background is emitting a more glary white light (as it tends to do on higher resolution displays under Win8/10), the net effect is to necessarily make any on-screen object more difficult to perceive clearly and without distortion, and especially printed text. The speed of perception is also reduced as the visual perception areas of the brain struggle to make sense of the unclear images being received from the eyes' retinae.

These are old hat ergonomic conclusions from wartime and post-war research and perceptual studies - not recently-discovered surprises - and they were rapidly pressed into action in defence (e.g., aircraft recognition) and paved the way for the design for a lot of important aircraft cockpit and other instrumentation design (e.g., including airport flight monitoring and ship radar displays), and later the design of AA road-signs in the UK, and some up-market UK automobile dashboard instrumentation displays, and Control Data and IBM CAD/CAM dual-screen workstation graphical displays and pen tablet systems in the late '70's and early '80s.