Tuesday, February 27, 2007

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!

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