one of the things that's so great about IQ

Submitted by jimspoon on 2025/09/29 19:49

I've been complaining about how I can't use my preferred software at work.  So I use Word for Outlining.  Better than nothing but it can't compare to IQ - no fields/columns for one thing.  I've also been experimenting with OneNote, because it's the only "notes" software I think I can use there.  I see all these good reviews for OneNote and think, what the hell?

why isn't my grid indenting my items to show parent-child relationships?

Submitted by jimspoon on 2025/09/25 22:42

Sad to say, I haven't been able to work in Infoqube much lately.  I sorely miss being able to use IQ at my job, but I am not permitted to use any software but what they have approved.  They even rejected my request to use a simple "Tab Renamer" extension for my browser.  It's hopeless to ask permission to use anything but what's on the "approved list".

import of tab-indented text

Submitted by jimspoon on 2025/05/12 23:18

I just successfully imported the attached tab-indented text file, 1427 lines (all paragraphs were one line each).  Just a few notes.

(1) For some reason, IQ puts some of the last lines from the text file at the top of the grid.  I have to move them down manually.

(2) One the first attempt there was still an "importing" message at the bottom.  I thought maybe the import wasn't complete, but it was. 

(3) The completion message wasn't persistent, would be good to be sure that the import was successfully completed.

Markitdown

Submitted by jimspoon on 2025/04/25 11:16

Just saw this article about MarkItDown, a utility that converts other file formats to Markdown. I'm wondering if it might be useful for converting documents that have an outline-type structure, but are in formats that IQ doesn't know how to import into the grid. If MarkItDown can convert those documents into good Markdown, perhaps IQ at some point will be able to import them from Markdown into a grid outline with the original outline structure preserved. 

setting tags via Item field text, or Doc Pane text

Submitted by jimspoon on 2025/04/09 20:00

I was curious whether the presence of a hash tag in Item field text or Doc Pane text would be sufficient to set a tag in IQ.  For example, if I simply typed in "#tag" in the Item field or the Doc Pane.  It seems it does not.  Rather, from what I can tell, the only way to set a tag by typing in the Item field or Doc pane is to type "##" to activate the Tag Dialog and enter the tags through the dialog.  I also wondered whether a tag would be set if I opened a document (already containing hash tags e.g. "#tag") in the Doc Pane.  As I expected this did not happen.

Long Time No Update

Submitted by d bartlett on 2025/04/09 14:37

Hi Pierre, I've been very comfortable with version v120Pre5 build 2022-04-13, it's 100% stable, absolutely no issues - but I'm thinking its time to upgrade to the most current version.   My 2 questions are - 1) have there been so many changes to IQ in the interim that I won't recognize the interface so will have challenges navigating within the program?   2) Will my customized grid formatting and other layout customizations be retained?   thanks, Doug B