Monday, June 26, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
This week I've been working on Windows Shell Extensions. I don't have a screenshot to post, but the idea has a lot of potential. So far I've added thumbnail views in Windows Explorer, and a pop-up text outline of the content of the file. That way you can browse the content of your files to some degree without having to open HeadCase to see them. I've also added context menu entries so that you can go to a file in explorer and convert it to an MS Office format or export outlines or images in a single operation without loading HeadCase. I'll do the same for the links in the Mind Maps shortly so that one can go to them directly as well. This is potentially a really powerful way of organising references, photos or whatever - you could select five Mind Maps of your holiday photos and spit them out into a captioned HTML gallery in one go, for instance.
The next stage is potentially very exciting, because I intend to add virtual directory support. That means that, like WinZip files, Explorer will be able to look inside HeadCase Mind Maps as if they were a directory tree. Footnotes will be represented as text files which can be edited with any text editor; linked files will be available as if they were in a folder - one will be able to interact with the entire Mind Map structure and its linked data via the familiar Explorer idioms.
Way cool.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Evolution
Here's a genealogical tree "Mind Map" of the basic flower "Evolvon" created using HeadCase: