More feature requests:
Thanks
“1. As moving items from inboxes to relevant groups is a common task please provide a toolbar “Move” item.”
I do that by simply dragging and dropping the item(s).
Bring back tabbed navigation of groups.
Incorporate the search field, alla the search field in the the Devonthink helper menu, into any place where a popup of databases and their hierarchies occurs.
Allow “sets” of utilized custom meta data (I don’t mean in preference, but in the inspector.) You could have tabs within the inspector that reveal these sets of custom meta data.
[I realize some of these requests probably fall later than the final release of DT3 version 1.]
Allow “sets” of utilized custom meta data (I don’t mean in preference, but in the inspector.) You could have tabs within the inspector that reveal these sets of custom meta data.
This has been discussed some (though I don’t think “tabs within the inspector” would be good, though I have no mockup to go on). However, the question of implementation would come up.
Bear in mind, this is just discussion and in no way implies we are hard at work on this concept.
I find it quite odd that right-clicking on the navigation sidebar gives “New Database” as the first menu choice and “new encrypted database” as second menu choice–both are, in my experience at least, much rarer than wanting to create a new group/smart group.
Highlighting of the Table of Contents’ menu item under which the pdf page being viewed is. PDF Expert shows it, and it makes it much better for browsing and reading long pdfs, such as edited books.
I realise now that it is already a feature of DT 3, but it is buggy: it doesn’t work properly when pdf pages have been bookmarked -presumably in PDF Expert. Whatever the pdf page being viewed, DT 3 beta6 highlights a menu item named My Bookmarks placed at the beginning of the TOC.
I would have liked to see the functionality provided years ago by the script Annotation Pane and, recently, Stack integrated into core DT.
DT3 Inspectors > Document > Annotations shows highlights and notes to highlights as links to the PDF pages. This welcomed feature still leaves that information within each pdf, unreachable as a whole in a DT database-wide search.
Another new feature in DT3, Inspectors > Annotations is also welcomed. But it doesn’t address the functionality provided by the above scripts because, if used for long pdfs, it would drive away from the concept of chunking for the storing and searching information. Although this DT3’s new feature is good for adding a short annotation about another short annotation, to store a long annotation about (let’s say, a book in pdf format) would be counter-productive.
In summary, most of my input of text into DT is done for pdfs via the one of the above scripts. I am very grateful to their developers for their effort, skill and generosity. But third-party scripts are not a future-proof way to store information that will remain consistently linked and accessible in the future. I long to see their functionality integrated into DT3 core.
How to better integrate their crucial functionality is another matter. I can think of notes in Inspectors > Document > Annotations > Details (that is, notes embedded in each pdf) being reproduced as separated markdown files, along with some metadata from the annotated file. But there might be more satisfactory implementations.
Thank your for your attention to this issue. Sent to development at DT.
Any chance of adding a rating icon to the toolbar? As exists for Labels? Possible to add ratings via inspector or the “info” icon, but would be great to be able to skip a step.
It’s definitely possible, but Development would have to assess this as it wouldn’t merely be a button, but a popup button.
