I was playing around with HTML and Javascript and I think it may be possible to implement one-click expand / collapse of headings (H1 ... H6) in both Browse mode AND Edit mode
Anyone interested ?
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
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Absolutely!!
I usually only have 2 or 3 headers per document during composition but even then this would be incredibly useful given the limited amount of space in each editor especially on my Surface.
Now that IQ can easily combine these individual elements into a custom composition, I won't have to export to MS Word half way thru the compilation process. Revisions could now be easily Cut & Pasted back to the original Documents or saved as reusable revision documents. Multiple drafts could also be saved and sent out for evaluation and feedback.
Word would now be reserved mainly for grammar-checking and final formatting with "acceptable" styles and fonts.
IQ could easily become the ESSENTIAL tool for every high school and university student. Better start contemplating your Education pricing scheme!
I usually only have 2 or 3 headers per document during composition but even then this would be incredibly useful given the limited amount of space in each editor especially on my Surface.
Now that IQ can easily combine these individual elements into a custom composition, I won't have to export to MS Word half way thru the compilation process. Revisions could now be easily Cut & Pasted back to the original Documents or saved as reusable revision documents. Multiple drafts could also be saved and sent out for evaluation and feedback.
Word would now be reserved mainly for grammar-checking and final formatting with "acceptable" styles and fonts.
IQ could easily become the ESSENTIAL tool for every high school and university student. Better start contemplating your Education pricing scheme!
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I usually have a lot of headings per document. Well I find there are two types of document long and short with very little in between. The short ones are only a line or two generally with no headings, the long ones have many headings. For me InfoQube has become my main tool for composition and has taken over that role from Scrivener. Instead of having many different projets in different files they now reside in different grids in the same notebase.
The outlining and word processing features of InfoQube are getting better but it still needs the ability to change the background colour of cells in a table.
I agree that this would be a very useful tool in Universities. If only they knew about it. I don't know what the final pricing scheme will be for InfoQube, if you want to go for a big price for a higher profit and more piracy or for a small price for less profit on more sales and less piracy. For software the production cost is very low but the development cost is very high. If you go for a high price then an Educational discount would make sense.
Those students who learn to use a program during their courses tend to want to go on using that tool, if it is any good, when they leave and get jobs. Whilst they still have their license the firms they work for like to get legitimate licenses for the software they use so there might be a knock on effect from that. This is why MIcrosoft is so keen to get its products used in schools, imagine what would happen if schools started using Liber Office. :)
Instead of having many different projets in different files they now reside in different grids in the same notebase.
I agree that this would be a very useful tool in Universities. If only they knew about it. I don't know what the final pricing scheme will be for InfoQube
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1- Instead of different grids, simply use 1 grid and filter on a Tag (could even be a hidden tag)
Set the grid source to blank and enter #TagName as the filter. The filter dropdown remembers all previous entries, so just click the dropdown arrow to view any article
2- IQ as a writing tool / light information management / in-class audio recording with handwriting sync would be free for students.
Because we're in 2018 and if it isn't free, it won't catch on.
I have always found writing with a stylus on a graphics tablet (where what you are writing appears in a completely different place) difficult. You are writing on the graphics tablet which has no display and the words are appearing on the screen remote from your hand.
Maybe it's just me but it completely ruins my hand eye coordination.
And trying to write with a mouse is just awful.
I have a ReMarkable tablet and it is great (if a little overpriced), it feels like paper to write on and the words appear under the pen where they are supposed to be. Then I can either convert to text on the tablet itself or the pages get updated automatically on my computers and phone so I can export the bitmaps and paste into InfoQube as images.
If I ever got an e-mail account set up for InfoQube then I could e-mail the text directly to InfoQube.
The outlining and word processing features of InfoQube are getting better but it still needs the ability to change the background colour of cells in a table.
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Doc pane headings expand / collapse is coming to the next version... AND cell background color too !
The outlining and word processing features of InfoQube are getting better but it still needs the ability to change the background colour of cells in a table.
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Doc pane headings expand / collapse is coming to the next version... AND cell background color too !
Bonus is cell text foreground color :-)
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
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Will the background colour be able to be set to a colour gradient ?
i.e. two colours and maybe a direction.
This would be nice but only possible in IE 11 mode.
Will the background colour be able to be set to a colour gradient ?
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Hi Paul,
No, this is a quick fix to enable the fore / back color selector to work with tables. A true UI to edit all table / row / cell properties will come later (something like this table / cell editor would be a good start)
I have experience of using this from 'ConnectedText', when everything is collapsed the document becomes it's own table of contents.
In order not to complicate the user interface might I suggest a small plus or minus symbol just before each heading which can be clicked to expand or collapse the section below.
So the only changes to the main interface would be the 'Expand All' and 'Collapse All' buttons.
However I see I will have to re-design some of the headings in the CSS files because they don't look good when stacked on top of one another.
I'm not sure about the ellipsis ... what happens if the heading already ends in an ellipsis ?
Maybe it would be better to precede the heading with an icon which could be clicked to reveal or hide the body text. Like a plus or minus in a box which would make it the same as the hierarchy in the grids or a triangle as used in some websites.
Comments
Absolutely!!
I usually only have 2 or 3 headers per document during composition but even then this would be incredibly useful given the limited amount of space in each editor especially on my Surface.
Now that IQ can easily combine these individual elements into a custom composition, I won't have to export to MS Word half way thru the compilation process. Revisions could now be easily Cut & Pasted back to the original Documents or saved as reusable revision documents. Multiple drafts could also be saved and sent out for evaluation and feedback.
Word would now be reserved mainly for grammar-checking and final formatting with "acceptable" styles and fonts.
IQ could easily become the ESSENTIAL tool for every high school and university student. Better start contemplating your Education pricing scheme!
Absolutely!!
I usually only have 2 or 3 headers per document during composition but even then this would be incredibly useful given the limited amount of space in each editor especially on my Surface.
Now that IQ can easily combine these individual elements into a custom composition, I won't have to export to MS Word half way thru the compilation process. Revisions could now be easily Cut & Pasted back to the original Documents or saved as reusable revision documents. Multiple drafts could also be saved and sent out for evaluation and feedback.
Word would now be reserved mainly for grammar-checking and final formatting with "acceptable" styles and fonts.
IQ could easily become the ESSENTIAL tool for every high school and university student. Better start contemplating your Education pricing scheme!
Might as well get in on your wish-granting!