[NTLK] HyperNewt

[Bryan N Iotti]

I ended up uninstalling HyperNewt, cleaning out the stores as indicated in the manual, then using SAI prefs cleaner to erase the prefs file.

Then I reinstalled, over IR as before, and this time it works... something must have gotten messed up along the way before. It wasn't the first time that I used HyperNewt.

Thank you all!

	Bryan
On Sep 1, 2010, at 14:09 , Don Zahniser wrote:

> Bryan N Iotti wrote:
> 
>> just thought I'd ask for your opinion on HyperNewt, since I had some
>> trouble with it losing my handwritten notes around...
> 
> I find HyperNewt to be one of my essential Newton software add-ons.
> 
> Do you mean that you have some notes that you know exist that don't show
> up in HyperNewt?  If so, try hitting the 'i' box, and choosing
> 'HyperNewt Utilities'.  From there, you can select 'Find Lost Notes'
> which should make them appear at the root level.
> 
>> What have your experiences been with it? Could it be that it was
>> just incorrectly installed (this was the IR install test)?
> 
> Very useful and trouble-free.  I have had the occasional note created by 
> DateMan not show up until I have done the above.
>> 
>> Is it really that much better, compared to the normal notepad (ok,
>> apart from what you can do with hyperlinks)?
> 
> 'Better' is highly subjective...
> 
> I find HyperNewt essential because of several features (in addition to 
> hyperlinking) not in the built-in Notepad:
> 
>  - Recents/Favorites:  The ability to access recent notes and folders 
> rapidly, and to designate certain notes as favorites (I use several as 
> templates, for example).
> 
>  - The Toolbar:  Access to Styles, and more flexible scrolling, which 
> helps avoid the need/desire for additional add-ons.
> 
>  - The ability to sort individual folders by title, date and stationery.
> 
>  - Hierarchical folders:  Yeah, old habits die hard.  I started off on 
> MS-DOS and Apple ][ computers, and like the extra flexibility that the 
> HN folder tree gives.  It also will display the 'path' to the current 
> folder in the toolbar.
> 
>> 
>> I'll keep playing around with it, see if I can get it to work right.
> 
> In this context, 'right' means if it works the way you need.  It should 
> work within its feature set pretty flawlessly, in my experience.
> 
> You might also try SuperNotePad from Standalone ($10.00).  It offers a 
> tagging system instead of folders, and the authors really seem to 'get' 
> the Newton's way of thinking.  Others on the list have extolled its 
> virtues.  I tried it, and while I liked it, I would have had to rewire 
> my brain a bit to use it effectively, and HN was serving my needs more 
> than adequately at the time, and continues to do so.
> 
>  - Don
> 
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