Other New Features in FNO 3.1 Release

"My Organizer" PIM

FNO3 now fully supports the ability to use "free form" notes that are not notes against files, but just "standalone" notes. Although you can add these notes anywhere, to make it easier we have added a new toolbar called "My Organizer" with 4 buttons: Calendar, Address Book, To-Do, Notes.

Each of these buttons changes the file list to display a folder that holds free format notes, each with a custom-designed column template suitable for the task. You can of course modify the template to show whatever notes columns you want, with your own titles.

For example, You may want to re-define the "to do" template to include the checkbox to mark when a task has been completed. You may want to add the "index" numerical note as a priority field.

Attachments Toolbar

This toolbar enables you to add files as attachments to notes.  This is ideal for "to do" notes, where you can link to a file that needs to be used with the to-do action.   
 

Shortcuts Toolbar

Because some people found the shortcuts pane on the left sidebar hard to use and taking too much space, we have added a new Shortcuts Toolbar, which works best over the top of the file list. This displays the shortcuts as normal buttons, which you press to change to the folder. It is integrated with the sidebar shortcuts, so you can use either or both as you wish. A management dropdown menu allows you to add/remove shortcuts, or toggle those on display from your master list.
 

Folder Size On Demand

The great feature that displays the total size of a folder (including subfolders) can now be invoked by holding the <Ctrl> key down when visiting a folder or when refreshing a folder. So those who find the feature uses too much processing power to have on all the time can now have the feature "on demand".

Add/Edit Note Popup Improvement

The Add/Edit Note popup window now runs as a seperate application, which gives it the ability to properly popup as the window in focus when its prompting for new notes. Many people had reported how the previous method of it not being in focus caused them to start typing with the focus still in a different window. Now it works as you would expect.

Multi-user Access to a Folder

Now multiple users can simultaneously edit notes on files within the same folder, without overwriting each others notes. As long as users are not writing notes on the very same file at the same time it is now possible to work within the same folder. This is great for workgroups where one person may be adding new notes, whereas another person may be updating existing notes on other files.

Another example is if the PIM folder has been set to be a network folder, it would be possible for a manager and secretary to work together on an appointments diary, for example, with one adding a new appointment while the other updates information about an existing appointment.

Export Notes as XML

You can now export a set of notes into a text file in XML format.
 

Printing Notes Improvements

A number of improvements have been made to the quality and accuracy of the notes printing. A major improvement is the ability to include a grid around the notes fields.
 

Row Color Button

A new "Add Row Color" button has been added which makes adding color as simple as a click of the mouse. It has a simple dropdown color picker and the last chosen color stays as the default so its very simple to mark up rows as you work down a list adding color highlights.
 

Notes Backup

You can now backup all your notes files (from all over your PC and network) into a ZIP file for safe archive storage. It only takes a few seconds to do, and gives you the piece of mind that all your effort adding information will not be lost if you accidentally delete a notes catalog or have a system crash.
 

Auto Play Slideshow

As some found the Slideshow a great way to instantly preview a file, we have added an auto-play option. If you want to start the displaying of files only when you press "play" then you can toggle the auto-play off.
 

Panoramic Viewer

The slideshow window has a new option "Panoramic Viewer" which automatically pans the display of a wide image in steps. So instead of using the horizontal scrollbar to slide the image from left to right, it will automatically do it for you.