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Subject:Temp/permanent annotations? From:mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:35:58 -0500
Ok, either everybody does this and there's a selection of
apps that I've just overlooked, or nobody does this,
and there's good reason why there are no good apps for it... :-)
Um... sometimes I have a bunch of changes to do in Word
documents or in a RoboHelp WebHelp project or even FrameMaker
docs. So, I'll start. Being the sort of bloke that I am,
and having been away from a document/project for the
necessary cooling-off period, I begin to find all sorts
of stuff that (wasn't part of my initial scope for this
edit/re-hash, but) just cries out for re-work.
It's like you were.... oooo! Shiny thing!....
... er, where was I?
Oh, yeah. I'm saying that I can get distracted by stuff
that I find and feel the need to tweak, sometimes recursively,
across many pages/topics, at the expense of the things I
initially went in to update/change. So, I've been known
to make two changes on a page and overlook the other two
identical items that should have been similarly changed,
because I got distracted by some other ugliness I'd perpetrated,
or a broken link, or... well...
What I want is to be able to slap on a yellow sticky
or equivalent whenever I happen upon something that I
should get back to, then continue with what I was _supposed_
to be doing until that's finished. Then I can go back
and liesurely investigate the other critters that appeared
while I was turning over stones. (Have I mangled enough
metaphors?)
Is there an app that will do this for any/many/most windows
applications? It would be best if the notes could "stick"
through closing and opening of the document/project files,
but could be cleared away with little effort at a moment's
notice. Probably something that uses metafiles to hold
the notes and track their positions inside Word, Frame,
RH, PowerPoint, etc., etc. files, but doesn't leave any
actual clutter within the documents themselves.
I've seen add-ons for this or that specific application,
and I've seen Windows desktop stickies, but what I (think I)
want is something that combines those characteristics and
functions in a single app.
Who's got what?
Kevin
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