Hi IQ Users !
The current rage for Zettelkasten method and apps like Roam, Dynalist and Obsidian has prompted us to make a number of UI improvements.
In that spirit, v116 is now available and focuses on making IQ an ideal environment for bullet journaling, log book, daily notes -- type information management:
- Doc pane / Item editor enhancements
- Card View major upgrade
- Doc pane -- Grid interoperability
In v116m:
- New: Card View: Major improvements, making it a useful new view. The only view showing rich-text doc content for multiple items. Details here
- New: Card View can now be detached and undocked to be a floating pane (experimental)
- New: Card View: View > Card Views command to show list of Card views
- New: Card View: Can now sort cards by a field, such as Item or Order. Sorting is used in Pile Cards and Spread Cards commands
- New: Card View: Toggling View / Preview now supports multiple selections
- New: Card View: Select All (Ctrl+A) now selects all cards in the current quadrant. If all are already selected, then it select all cards on the desk
- New: Card View: Ctrl+Arrow moves selected cards
- New: Card View: Filter now works for cards is in view mode
- New: Card View: When detaching tab, floating pane size and position is restored
- New: Card View: Set card default size
- New: Card View: Option when pasting items to move existing items to the current quadrant
- New: Card View: Support for Marked Items
- New: Card View: Undo enabled after items are removed
- New: Card View: When filtering, Remove command now offer option to remove only visible cards or only hidden cards
- New: Card View: Dialog to confirm when removing locked items
- New: Card View: Command to move selected cards to the current quadrant
- New: Grid: Ctrl+Space toggles the expand state of selected items
- New: Grid: Backspace key enters edit and places the cursor at the end of the text
- New: Grid: Setting for multiline column headers when creating new grids (default=off)
- New: Grid: Option to copy items as bullets or text (TLI items)
- New: Grid: Option to show solid lines is back. Not recommended though as it has significant impact on grid scrolling. Best is to use alternating row colors and vertical lines only
- New: Grid: Adding a top-level item now automatically adds it to CardView (if the CardView is not empty)
- New: Grid: External link (odc) file now support both 32-bit and 64-bit applications
- New: Grid: Auto-Search (Ctrl+F3) shown above the grid when ON
- New: Grid: Experimental: Enable grids and fields with names starting with a number
- New: Grid: Copy as Outline now supports htm, md and mht files
- New: Grid: Add Column dialog: Filter text box (similar to the one in the Options dialog)
- New: Find and Replace dialog. Support for Grids and Live-Search. Details here
- New: Calendar: Edit > Copy now has support for IQ items clipboard format
- New: Surface: Edit > Copy now has support for IQ items clipboard format
- New: Live-Search: Support search for %, [ and _ characters
- New: Live-Search: Support for wildcard characters (using ANSI-92 wildcards)
- New: Live-Search: When match is in the Item field, text and item cells are now merged to show more content (Show Details is ON)
- New: Fields: In auto-assign equations, simpler syntax to set/unset tags. Details here
- New: TimeLine view: Improved touchpad support. Improved Zoom. Dates now shown as tooltips
- New: Doc pane / Item editor: Insert Image dialog: Dialog enables copy-paste and drag-drop of files and web images. Supports multiple images
- New: Doc pane / Item editor: Double-click on an image opens the image properties dialog
- New: Doc pane: New from a Template now supports for HTML and MD type documents
- New: Doc pane / Item editor: Support for IQ items clipboard format. Creates a hyperlink to the item(s)
- New: Doc pane / Item Editor: Ctrl+space toggles heading if nothing selected (otherwise removes formatting)
- New: Doc pane / Item Editor: * prefix is now shown when content has changed
- New: Doc pane: Pane title bar now has a drop-down menu. Same commands as Right-Click
- New: Doc pane: Insert Current Time command. Ctrl+Shift+T default shortcut
- New: Item Editor: Auto-save document (uses the Doc pane setting)
- New: Properties pane: Drag-drop Fields to Forms (add and re-order fields). To set values / equations when applying form, use the Manage Forms dialog
- New: Properties pane: Copy Fields to Forms. Complements drag-drop and the Manage Forms dialog
- New: Properties pane: Context menu to remove a field from a form
- New: Hyperlinks: Support for links to grid sub-views. e.g. to link to Grid1 Card view use Grid1|CV (use PT, PC, MV, TL for pivot table/charts, map view and timeline sub-views)
- New: Hyperlink dialog: Support for IQ items clipboard format: Ctrl+V will paste the item text in the link text textbox and the item ID(s) in the link target textbox
- New: Related Items dialog: Support for IQ items clipboard format: Press Ctrl+V to create links
- New: EmailToIQ: Support for simpler format: ItemName #Tag1 #Tag2
- New: Omnibox: Entering a single character now list items starting with that character (favorites, views and commands)
- New: View > Links pane: Empty pane for now but will eventually show all links to an item
- New: Manage Grids dialog: Filter-as-you-type and other UI and keyboard enhancements
- New: Options dialog: Filter-as-you-type to help find settings
- New: Options dialog: Improved keyboard support
- New: Workspace Tabs: Option to show close button (x) on each tab (instead of a floating red close button)
- New: Workspace Tabs: Option to show tabs as Classic (Excel) or Modern (Chrome)
- New: System Enhanced Scaling setting. Improves display clarity when the Windows display scaling is not set to 100%, 150% or 175% (i.e. when 125% or 200% and above)
- New: Google Sync: Tasks: Removing the task list or renaming it to a non-existing Google task list now deletes the Google Task item
- New: File > Recent file list: Now shows file name. File path is only shown when there are more than one entry for that file name. Tooltip displays full file name and path. Current file is shown in bold
- Change: Grid: When item Home is shown as a column, the Home ID is no longer shown, just the Home name (now matches the Properties pane)
- Change: Calendar: Shift+Drag to select by area. Ctrl+Drag to create an event
- Change: Doc pane: Save as Default is now Save as Template. Works for HTML and MD type documents
- Change: Doc pane / Item Editor: Ctrl+arrow on heading follows settings (Tools > Options > 1.4.4)
- Change: Item editors: When minimizing the main IQ window, Item editors stay visible (even when set to be floating)
- Change: Manage Grids: Grid filter and sort are no longer shown, as it was a very incomplete picture of the current grid filter and sort
- Change: Vertical tabs: When set to auto-width, tabs now all have the same widths and set to 10% of the main IQ window width
- Fixed: Grid: When creating an item, the Item Home column is not updated (when shown)
- Fixed: Grid: Column filters were not working correctly for the ItemTags and ItemRelated columns
- Fixed: Grid: When selecting items, Ctrl+Space no longer worked to toggle the select state
- Fixed: Grid: Hyperlinks to folders created by drag-drop did not always work
- Fixed: Grid: Filtering for items with a star, such as **TODO was not possible. The easiest way to create such filters is to use Live-Search
- Fixed: Grid: Changing the hyperlink text did not work for the WYSIWYG editor
- Fixed: Grid: On file drag-drop, link text was not kept
- Fixed: Grid: Show UI on file / URL drag drop setting was not saved
- Fixed: Grid: On file / URL drag drop, no item was created if option was set to not show the UI
- Fixed: Grid: Toggle Hoist On/Off was broken, did a Hoist Selected Items
- Fixed: Grid: Expand / Collapse could sometimes cause vertical scrolling
- New: Grid: In dashboards: Right-click on pane > Pane Color command
- Fixed: Grid: Date Filter 2 day and 3 day filters did not work
- Fixed: Grid: Moving an item from one parent to another could sometimes keep both parents (if the original parent is not shown in the grid)
- Fixed: Grid: On paste image, now remembers the last image quality setting used
- Fixed: Grid: Paste improvements
- Fixed: Grid: Shortcut keys (Alt+#) did not work correctly
- Fixed: Grid: Dashboard: Hidden panes no longer loaded when hovering over their tab
- Fixed: Gantt: Dragging a summary bar did not move sub-sub items
- Fixed: Calendar: Changing / moving an event could delete it (the item was NOT deleted, bug introduced in v116)
- Fixed: Card view: In View mode, the content did not correctly update when modified elsewhere (e.g. Doc pane, Item editor)
- Fixed: Card view: Card filtering could cause a program crash
- Fixed: Card View: Edit > Delete Item did not work
- Fixed: Card View: Card header height was fixed at 20px, now depends on the font size
- Fixed: Card View: Removing the selected card still showed it as the focused item (Properties / Tags / Doc panes etc)
- Fixed: Card View: Item > Lock command did not work
- Fixed: TimeLine view: Sometimes the items shown did not match those in the corresponding grid
- Fixed: Live-Search: Hyperlinks were not working
- Fixed: Live-Search: Copy item text did not work
- Fixed: Doc pane: Changes made in code view were lost if switching to Browse and then to Edit
- Fixed: Doc pane: When 2 or more Doc panes are open, shortcut keys F7/F8 no longer worked
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: Fixed some drag-drop issues when dragging items from a grid
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item Editor: Drag-drop created a ghost image which was still visible after ending drag-drop (experimental fix). Details here
- Fixed: Doc pane / Item editor: Paste bitmap could sometimes cause a crash
- Fixed: Doc pane: Paste hyperlinks
- Fixed: Item Editor: Showing some dialogs (i.e. hyperlink) moved the focus to the main IQ window, possibly hiding the item editor
- Fixed: Item Editor: In document section, tab key now indents
- Fixed: Item Editor: Insert Current Date/Time did not work
- Fixed: Tags pane: Using Alt+Arrow keys to move tags in the tags hierarchy did not refresh parent tags state (until pane was refreshed)
- Fixed: Properties pane: Item Properties section was always expanded on startup. It now restores previous state
- Fixed: Properties pane: Click on a hyperlink started editing
- Fixed: Properties pane: Dynamic hyperlinks did not work (link target defined by a field)
- Fixed: Properties pane: No context menu was shown for Locked property
- Fixed: Tags pane: Moving tags using Alt+ up/down/left/right was not working
- Fixed: Manage Grids dialog: Click on the grid list header now correctly sorts the list in ascending order
- Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: When Auto-save was off, the Cancel button on the Save dialog did not work
- Fixed: Manage Fields dialog: Column widths are now saved
- Fixed: Date fields: Assigning a value to a date field did not always create an event even when the date field is set to do so (In Calendar by default setting)
- Fixed: ItemHTMLWordCount field was sometimes not counting correctly
- Fixed: Omnibox: The first time search was done from the Omnibox, Live-Search did not return results correctly
- Fixed: On multi-monitor, app icon is now shown on the correct monitor taskbar
- Fixed: Floating panes: When switching between dual monitors to single monitor, floating panes could be positioned outside of the monitor, hence invisible. Now the floating panes are moved to ensure they are visible
- Fixed: On startup, splash screen reported "Not Licensed" even when user had a valid license
v116 includes a fresh copy of the complete IQ documentation in 2 formats:
- IQBase: Do File > Welcome to IQ to open it
- Windows help file (infoqube.chm). Thanks to user KeithB for once again generating this help file
Download it and checkout it out !
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
Comments
See Settings for best IQ experience
10. Copying user settings and IQ configuration files
The option for tab shape (modern / classic) only affects horizontal tabs. Intentional? (If so, maybe add info to that option.)
Thanks for fixing the splash screen bug. Not a major one, but it did have me worried for a while.
Which reminds me... I ignored the Outliner version for several months, fired it up last week and got a notification that it was expired and I had to download a new beta or buy a license. I'm not sure if the part about the license applies to the Outliner version?