We are pleased to announce the availability of the next public preview of Sente 6.5.
There a quite a few changes in this preview. Here are some highlights:
- There is a completely new autolink interface. This includes the way that autolink templates are managed (this is now in the Autolink Setup pane in the source list) and the way they are accessed (click on the "links" icon in the attachment view header).
- The attachment view now automatically loads one of the autolinks (as controlled in the setup pane), or the autolinks page itself, when there are no attachments on a reference.
- The attachment view header has been improved.
- The output gesture configuration has been moved into Sente Preferences. This is where you say what Sente should do when you drag a reference from the reference list, for example.
- There is a new Add Reference sheet that is used when adding references to your library (e.g., through targeted browsing, or when dropping a URL onto a library). You can edit the reference in this sheet before updating the library (e.g., you can set a status, add tags, etc.)
- There is a new Add File sheet that appears when you drop PDFs or other files onto your library. You now also have options of adding multiple files using template references (e.g., to automatically assign tags to all files in a batch).
- There is now a Create Reference from this Web Page in the context menu in Sente's web view. Sente will automatically add a web archive of the page to the new reference.
- Crossref.org is now used to lookup citation data for a DOI.
There are many more bug fixes and small improvements as well.
We are encouraging everyone to begin moving to Sente 6.5. The official release is just a few weeks away, so this is very close to the official version (although we still have one or two nice changes to roll out!).
Preview 4 can be downloaded here:
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/downloads/Sente-6.5-Previews/Sente65p4.zip
The current draft of the user manual can be downloaded here:
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/downloads/Sente-User-Manual/Sente-6.5-User-Manual-DRAFT-2011-11-20.pdf
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/downloads/Sente-User-Manual/Sente-6.5-User-Manual-DRAFT-2011-11-20.epub
If you are have not already tried one of the earlier preview releases of Sente 6.5, please see our blog post here:
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/blog/2011/10/sente-65-public-preview.html
We look forward to receiving your feedback on this new preview release.
Michael
"There is a new Add Reference sheet that is used when adding references to your library"
This is a great idea, and very useful. But I think the sheet needs to be movable; as it is now, you can't see the web page, so you can't check the reference data as you edit.
I used to be able to drag a reference in to my library and it would allow me to do a title search to find the article. Now I have to do it all manually, or find the article before hand. It is very possible that I am missing something, but if not, this being removed really slows down my workflow.
Ditto. My main way of adding PDFs to Sente is dragging them onto it and then using the search window to look it up. Is this still possible? It's very important to me.
Hello Michael.
In p4 I am unable to open any non-pdf attachment in the attachment panel, such as epub and chm. Instead it showed "An error occurred when trying to display this item. Click here to go back."
This is a disaster for me because I have more and more epubs in the library. It was fine in the previous preview version. So I think I will reverse to it.
Would you please bring back the "open" option to all the non-pdf attachments in the next version? Thank you very much.
Another problem with importing PDFs: If I click on a PDF and then, in the resulting list of options, choose "New reference by embedded DOI. We intend to do the lookup and show you the result right here", the list of options disappears and then nothing happens.
Please Please Please!!
Fix the horrible way to read a pdf! It's just inaceptable the way it is now, can't quick jumping to a page from commentary, don't have fast page traveling, no previews, and so on and so on.
I really like this new release... looks incredible! Thanks!
Me too, I like the function when importing Pdf files I can copy the title then search the reference. All the information will be automatically filled in. Is it still there?
Need it!!!!!