wsp wrote:I should have added to my note above that I continue to do various experiments that might make it possible for me to continue using MyInfo with mobile devices.
Lately I've been playing around with a new iPhone/iPad app -- Documents by Readdle. It is very clever at handling PDF files and files in other formats. One thing I have done is to export a full MyInfo document as an RTF file, then convert that to a PDF, which I shifted to Documents via Dropbox. It sounds complicated, but it takes only a few minutes. At that point I have a full PDF file of all my notes on either my iPhone or iPad, and in both cases they can be marked up in various ways through Documents when I am away from my computer.
Then when I am back home I can easily transfer any new notes to MyInfo on my computer.
It works, more or less -- though it feels rather cumbersome. I suppose I could get used to it.
Is anyone else on this board trying to take notes on a phone or tablet that will later be inserted in MyInfo? I would be curious about what techniques you use.
It seems to me that there are two problems: (1) Taking notes on the device. That part is easy, because there are so many ways of creating short notes on an iPad or iPhone. (2) Creating some kind of file (in my case a PDF) that you can put on your device for reference purposes when you're not near the computer.
This is an interesting approach wsp, I tried it myself, but I rely heavy on organisation and links between topics / notes, and exporting to rtf and then converting to pdf destroys the links and tree-structure of my database. My approach is to export it as a web-page, transfer it to my ipad and then use GoodReader to browse the database on the ipad (GoodReader allows for "staring" files - I star the index.html from the exported web-page and this way have a easy access to the database). This is good because you have the same tree-menu on the left side, along with icons and all, and the links between the notes are also preserved. However, this approach has three shortcomings:
1) It is "read only", so you cannot add notes to the database and transfer it back to the PC.
2) There is no search option available, but this is a minor obstacle if you have a decent organisation of your notes. The solution would be to make an chm-export option in MyInfo, or to convert the web-page manually to chm.
3) With the introduction of IFRAMES in version 6.13 of MyInfo, the exported web-page (of the database) cannot be read as usual with GoodReader on the ipad (see my other post IFRAME troubles).
On a side note, I am also against those cloud solutions, because I still remember the time when the internet(availability and connection) was unreliable and slow. And you never know with cloud solutions when the provider will close its business or start charging too much.
I am also sceptical that there will ever be ipad or android ports of MyInfo, as this is a "one-man show", and he surely cannot manage to do this all alone.
BTW, I see that there are other people using Scrapbook in their workflow. Anyone used it for sort of file-organiser (ie organising large picture collections?) MyInfo would be great with all the tagging and organising features, however its opening and closing times with large databases make it not acceptable for this purpose.