Hippo-lease version 0.3.1.4

The promised look & feel update is here and man does it look (and feel) nice.

Gadgetization
This release has a much more dynamic system for the overlays. What's that mean? It means WYSIWYWTS (What you see is what you wanted to see). This should simplify the look of your topics and stop presenting you with 7 different boxes begging for input.

To make this happened we've introduced the "Gadget Picker" which lives in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click on this to see a list of gadgets that you can add to your topic. The list right now is:

• Connections - This is how you connect topics to each other via a "See Also" link.
  
• Entries - Add a text description of a topic.
  
• Files - Upload files for this topic.
  
• WebLinks - View & Edit weblinks that you created using the plugin.
  
• Island Properties -Add "Phone Number" to the People island or "Date Seen" to the Movie Island.
  

Timelines
There's still a lot of goodness coming your way wrt Timelines, but for the first time in months it no longer says "blah blah blah" when you click on a Topic in a Timeline. Small victories are still good though, right?

GUI
Pretty? Less ugly? Either way you look at it I'd say it's better.


It's getting close!!
Hide your loved ones. The Hippo-lease approacheth!

Hippo-lease version 0.2

Oddly enough this release is best viewed with IE7. Firefox works allright, but sometimes it decides you'd like to select the images that make up an island instead of dragging it and things get a bit crazy. I'd definitely recommend IE for right now.

The interface has undergone a pretty dramatic re-design & I think it's going to be a lot better. Information about your topics now comes up as overlays.

The coolest new thing is certainly the zoom. Wheel those mouse wheels if you've got em, or use the scale tool. Either way I think you'll find it much easier to get a handle on your hippocampus.

The most importan new feature is that there's no more save button (except on the 'Edit an entry popup' where you definitely need to hit the save button to have things save). I think this will clear up some problems people were having with the previous interface where people thought it was losing changes because they didn't realize they needed to hit save.

Expect thing look & feel to get a big overhaul soon, but the widgets themselves to stay in the same places and the functionality to stay about the same.

Besides that, an IE plugin is on the way, and there's also a new version of the Firefox plugin which will copy the selected text into the "notes" field.