Thanks Christiaan,
I just hadn't realised how to keep the highlight option always on. As a new
user you must appreciate that it was not obvious why I couldn't turn on the
highlighter by pressing the button in the "Add Note" menu.
I don't know about Preview - I don't use it, but I don't think Skim is quite as
click efficient as it could be. However all it would take is slight better
customisation of the tool bar and short cuts to suit the users habits.
- Tool bar
If I could customise the tool bar so that "Tool Mode" buttons included all of
the drop down options that select the "Note Type", I would do this. Then until
I found a special use for it I'd simply remove the "Add Note" buttons from the
tool bar.
- Customisable short cuts (maybe possible somewhere?)
The short cuts I would change so that ones I use frequently are easy to type.
Commnand-ctrl-6 is not very easy. Maybe I don't have very long fingers?
This would enable me to quickly jump from highlighting mode to underlining mode
- which at the moment are the only two modes I use. I underline headings and
highlight paragraph text.
Chris.
I just hadn't figured out the difference between the "Tool Mode" and the "Add
Note" buttons.
All I wanted to be able to do was change between being in underline mode and
highlight mode at one click
What I would now change is to allow the tool bar to be modified that . can be
access in one click. Then I'd simply do away with the "Add Note" buttons.
I jump between using the highlighter and underliner. I underline headings I am
interesting in and highlight paragraph text. If I was able to customise the
tool bar as I suggest I can change mode in one click.
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To: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:59:18 +0200
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] apply last action with middle mouse button
- keeps your left hand free for coffee drinking
On 12 Jul 2008, at 10:14 PM, Christopher Reeve wrote:Perhaps a better idea
would be to open up the restriction Skim makes that you have to select text
before you can highlight it, underline it or strike through it. It took me a
little while to figure out that Skim require you to make the selection first -
clearly this is not intuitive.
Enable the user to select a highlighter and then select text with it and on the
release of the mouse the text is highlighted. Is this not more standard?
That's basically the way Preview behaves. Personally, I think it is much less
intuitive. Moreover, it takes about twice as many actions in general to add a
note or highlight with this behavior. So in the long run Skim's behavior is
much more efficient. Also I would say that the connection between a highlight
and a text selection should be pretty obvious.
Another grumble: If I want to, for example, spell check someone's paper it is
far easier to write the correction above the text - just like I would do by
hand. I don't like the yellow Text Tool boxes much, which you have to move and
resize into the margins so that it does not cover the main text. Too fiddly.
Again, Jarnal performs better here. I think Skim is missing a similar text tool.
Chris.
There has gone a lot of thought into selection, and we've tried to make it as
intuitive and efficient as possible. You can never have everything. Every
choice has a downside to it. Also note that you can get the note at a different
place by not selecting text, in which case it will be added at the current
mouse position.
Moreover, you can get into a note tool mode and add notes directly by selecting
a region or selecting text (depending on the type). Compare this to preview,
where you basically do the same, but unlike Skim you essentially have to select
the note tool mode for every single note or highlight you have to add. Skim
offers you two ways of adding notes, you just choose the one that fits you best
at any moment.
Christiaan
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To: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:10:48 +0200
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] apply last action with middle mouse button -
keeps your left hand free for coffee drinking
I'd say that would me more a function for the OS than an individual program. I
wouldn't even know how to do that. And generally it is a bad idea to do
non-standard things, and this is extremely non-standard behavior.
Christiaan
On 12 Jul 2008, at 6:36 PM, Christopher Reeve wrote:Hi,
I'm new to Skim, but already love it.
One feature I think would be very helpful:
To push last called macro/function on a middle mouse click.
eg. If you are going through a document highlighting text, on the first
occurrence you would select the text to be highlighted and then highlight the
text with either clicking the highlight button or using the short cut.
After this if you want to highlight some text simply select it and then
click the middle mouse button.
This would make repetitive jobs like highlighting a breeze! - With left hand
taken up by your mug of coffee your right hand does not have to dart back and
forth from the tool bar to the text - spilling your precious coffee.
Chris.
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