Am 09.09.2007 um 15:54 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: > > On 9 Sep 2007, at 3:36 PM, Daniel Becker wrote: > >> >> Am 09.09.2007 um 14:33 schrieb Derick Fay: >> >>> I would recommend against a Library autofile default location - >> >>>>> Related to that: I have the impression that autofile is a powerful >>>>> feature that is not used very often by many users? Couldn't >>>>> BibDesk >>>>> offer a standard setting like: Define as the autofile-location >>>>> some >>>>> place in ~Library for example ~L >> >> ok ok - the point is not where the autofile location is but to >> educate new users to use autofile and give them the opportunity to >> learn about it. Maybe ~/Documents/BibDeskAutoFiling/.... with a small >> Readme inside that explains how to change the location of that >> folder. Or a folder relative to the bib-file named NameOfTheBibFile- >> Folder. And it should be a one-click operation to turn autofiling on. >> > > The default location is ~/Documents/Papers. though it will probably > not exist anyway. This kind of explanation is supposed to be put in > the Help, where it already is. > >> Personally, I am really happy how autofile works. But I grew up with >> BibDesk and learnt about the features as they were invented. I guess >> now new users have difficulties to imagine how powerful this fabulous >> application is.... >> >> Daniel >> > > There are lots of features. The first thing a new user should do if > he wants to learn about using it is go to the Help. Otherwise there > is nothing from our side we should do. > > Christiaan >
I was actually about to write a chapter about autofile (since it is among my favorite features of BibDesk) for the wiki - providing examples and screenshots. That I now delayed until the new features Adam is working on are implemented. My hope is that having the information in two different versions (help and wiki) will improve people's awareness of autofile's power. a. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > ============================================= please avoid sending me word attachements; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details and background ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
