EccoMagic MagicView Gather Information & Take Notes
Introduction:
There used to to be a cool
program called "NetSnippets" which saved webpages (including graphics) and
sort of allowed some kind of outline structure. But it wasn't a real
outliner, and very soon, all those web pages got out of
hand.
If
you can't find the info... you might as well not have
it!
Which problem led
to this very special tool. Instantly
enter notes and clip information from the
screen, the web, Word,
Excel, PDFs, E-Mails, etc., and place into an
outline where you can access the information, move it around, and
organize it!
With MagicView you
can:
enter notes directly and clip from just about anywhere,
including graphics from the screen.
comfortably save over a billion characters of text and a
virtually unlimited amount of graphics in over 30,000 view pages
per ecco file.
seamlessly secure your text with Microsoft AES 192/256
bit strong encryption (requires XP/Windows 2003 or
higher).
send your live or saved MagicView page (from any source)
directly to your browser or instantly jump to the original source
document.
save your pages either within ecco or seamlessly in
an external disk folder.
grab a selection of pages and
flip through them all together.
share the same note/viewpage between
multiple items.
link directly from any viewpages to
any other.
view a page and all of its linked
pages together as one.
search in Ecco and see a manageable results
screen.
While still being
able to:
append to, export, and print your saved
clips.
modify, and easily mark up your saved
clips, with super easy to use
highlighting,
indexing,
private notes &
comments,
cross-page hyperlinking,
block math,
and
outline
numbering.
Hopefully
too, MagicView feels at home.
MagicView is fully
compatible with your existing Ecco files. For those who have used a
NoteEdit/EditNote plugin with "RTF" notes, you can instantly use
existing notes by simply renaming the note folder to "MagicView_1"
and enabling the RTF option in the File menu. The MagicView notes
are not only more compact and much more powerful as notes, but are
secure and open the door to true information gathering and organization
fit for the information age.
Just like in
Ecco's main outline, Control + K opens your text formating window.
Tab indents your outline level. Most every command has a
hotkey shortcut. Control + Q is there to instantly insert the date &
time, and even the "<"
and ">" navigation butons work exactly like
the "Prev" and "Next" buttons in Ecco's form view dialog.
MagicView
integrates deeply into the Ecco workflow on many levels. For
example, selecting and moving information from
MagicView to ecco items is as easy as pressing Control + Alt + C to
instantly copy the current MagicView selection as a new Ecco child
item.
Using Ecco
MagicView you can move around, organize, and access huge blocks of data
using very small tag lines. You can have Hundreds of Megs of data,
and yet have ecco orderly, responsive, and downright fun to
use.
Overview: You can clip
information to MagicView in over 30 different ways,
including:
Hotkey Clip directly
from anywhere directly into MagicView
Hotkey Clip directly
from web browsers into Ecco
Clip screen shots
directly into MagicView or Ecco
Cut from anywhere,
and Paste into MagicView
Drag & Drop into
MagicView from:
Sections of Web
pages
Selections from
thousands of supported programs
Entire HTML,
RTF, or TXT files (thousands can be added at the same
time)
Photos
Program and data files
to create links
PDF, DjVu, MHT, and
similar file types to create seamless links
Disk folders to create
'live' attached folder views
and
more...
Adding clips to a MagicView page:
A) From your browser, word
processor, spreadsheet, pdf viewer, or other information source,
simply drag & drop a selection into
MagicView.
NOTE:
1. Hold down the Ctrl key when
coping from word processors such as MS Word. (Otherwise the text
is 'moved' to MagicView, instead of just copied over. If
this happens, you can press Ctrl + Z in MagicView to
restore.)
2. Multiple cells from Excel are as much as
possible kept as a table, in most cases, just like
they showed up in Excel.
3. In most cases, you can
also drag from MagicView directly into Word, Excel, etc..
Please note the same caution applies-- hold the control key down
when you release the drag to copy the selection. (Otherwise,
you will move, ie. delete in MagicView, the moved
selection. If this happens, you can restore the selection in
MagicView with Control + Z.)
4.
Dragging & Dropping is easy, but does not store the
location of web-pages from where you dragged. To save the
location of the information, use a direct clip to MagicView,
or copy & paste with 'saved URL'.
5. The instructions assume "Magic"
mode (button in upper left hand corner). You cannot add or
modify a page in "View" mode. (There are other indications
as well, the color of the item text line at bottom, is green for
Magic mode and red for View mode. "MAGICview" appears in
Magic mode, "magicVIEW" in View
mode.)
B) Drag &
drop graphics, text, PDF, DjVu, and HTML files, as well as
disk folders directly into MagicView's ItemText box.
Simply
drag any graphics, txt, or html file
to MagicView's ItemText boxwhile holding down the Control key (or
Shift). Note: do not drag to the MagicView page
display area for this feature, drag to the ItemText box at the
bottom.
Text
and html files will be incorporated into the viewpage text
directly.
For
PDF, DjVu, MHT files, disk folders, etc., holding
down the control or shift key has the opposite effect-- the pdf
will replace the active page unless
the control or shift key is pressed (in which case a new item will
be created). The PDF, etcl, file will be
linked, that is, the file on disk will be displayed but
not saved as a part of the viewpage. (You can 'ground' the
page to make an extra copy of the file saved as a part of the
viewpage in the ".web" directory.) For detailed
instructions on adding MHT, PDF or DjVu files, see the 'Adding PDF
and DjVu Documents' section below.
Multiple files, even thousands and of multiple
types, can be added at the same time.
Multiple MHT, PDF and DJVU files are linked to new
children items but all other graphics files are incorporated
directly into the viewpage (if added with the control or shift key
held down).
Note: If
text, rtf, or html files are dragged to the ItemText box without
holding down the shift or control keys, the files will be added
as sub-items using the file's names. You can mass import
rtf, text, and html items this way. (When viewing RTF
imports, be sure the 'Use RTF' option is selected in File
> Folder Options ).
C) Copy, and paste the clip into
MagicView
On
the Edit menu, you'll find three pasting choices. (You can access the
Edit menu by clicking the "Edit" button, by pressing Alt +
D, or by right clicking and selecting Edit.)
1. Control + V , paste.
2. Shift + Control + V, paste and save
clip css and source information.
3. Winkey + Control + V, paste and save clip css and
source as a clean, new page. This will erase
any clips or information currently in the active MagicView
page.
Note: pasting with
clip css and source information may take a moment or two to
process (especially with extremely large clips, or clips that
require reading other files in order to determine css
context).
D) Hotkey Clip directly into
MagicView.
In most any program, mark the section you desire to
clip, and press Winkey + F12.
There are a wide variety of clipping options, and to help keep
things relaxed, the 'master' hotkey Winkey + F12 is always available to provide a convenient menu of
clipping options. You can also hotkey clip
directly:
Winkey + Control
+ C append the clipped
selection to the current MagicView page,
Winkey +
Control + Shift + C replace the current MagicView page with the clipped
selection.
Note: If you
accidentally erase a MagicView page with the Winkey + Control
+ Shift + C function, if you activate MagicView and press the same
key command (Winkey-Control-Shift-C) within about 6 seconds, the
page will revert.
Winkey + Control + Alt + C replace the current MagicView page
with the webpage referenced
in the clipped selection.
For example, highlighting "google.com" (in any
program) and pressing Winkey + Control + Alt +
C will replace the active MagicView page
contents with the contents of the webpage found at
"http://google.com".
Winkey
+ Alt + C append the clipped selection
to the current MagicView page, and, store any
images locally.
Saving Web graphics:
Web and similar clips that include
graphics will also include the graphics when pasted. The
normal mode for this is to display the graphics from
the original location. The advantage to this is
speed and space-- no space or time is used to download,
copy or store the image. This is the best way to clip
and view when the information we are after is
textual. The text is stored forever, and with very
little overhead, the images are initially available as
well.
The disadvantage to not storing images
locally is that images and locations may change in the
future. For images that are more than just
convenience, images which themselves are information we
want to save, the safest bet is to save a local copy
of those images. To clip directly into MagicView
and to save a local copy of any web page images,
use this alternative clip.
Note:
1) Images are saved to a directory
located where your .eco file is located, named
the exact same as your .eco file, but with ".web" as the
directory's extension. Java applets, external scripts,
embedded movies, etc. are not stored
locally.
2) If you want to store a page's
external java applets, etc., use your web browser to save the
webpage ("complete") in the appropriate directory, and then
browse to the saved file, and clip from that file into
your ecco. The page, including scripts, will be
a part of your .eco file and always accessible to you-- so long
as the directory and source files are
accessible.
3) If you relocate your .eco file,
move the .web folder as well. If you change the name
of your .eco file, you can manually rename the .web
folder, or allow MagicView to handle that automatically as
part of its error and checksum procedures.
4) Storing images locally requires
having an actual file to link them to. In order to use the
MagicView image storage feature you must first open an
ecco file. (A new ecco session that is not yet saved as a
file is not sufficient-- there is no file to link the
images to.) Ecco does not need to display an open
window, but Ecco must be running, with an actual file open
as the active session.
The purpose of MagicView
is information
gathering, and when photos are actually information
(such as diagrams, etc.) it is extremely helpful to be
able to clip the photo info as well. However, making a
'backup' of webpages for 'history' is not a helpful way to
gather and organize information. Strongly suggested that you save
images when it is really
necessary. Keep in mind that it is the information you are
after, not the presentation. (Some web browsers are
text only!).
You can also manually
localize (save to disk) photos from any web clip, at any time,
by pressing Alt +
Gto 'ground' the clip.
Ie., if you dragged & dropped a clip
you can immediately (or later) use the 'Ground" command to save
the clip's images locally. Grounding a file will also localize
the 'CSS' style sheets for any webpage.
E) Hotkey Screen Clips
1)
Winkey + Shift +
F12 to capture a screen clip
directly into MagicView.
As with 'Grounding' clips, to use the
MagicView screen clip feature you must first open an ecco
file. (A new ecco session that is not yet saved as a file
is not sufficient-- there is no file to link the images
to.)
Ecco does not need to be displayed on
your desktop as an open window, but Ecco needs to be
running, and the active 'file' needs to be a real file,
not a temporary 'Untitled' view.
How to Clip:
Activate the clipping tool by
pressing Winkey + Alt +
F12.
After activating the tool, move the
cursor to the upper left, or lower right corner of the
desired clip area.
Press and hold the left mouse
button, and select the desired clip
area.
To reset the corner of the clip
area you can press and release the control key
while still
holding down the left mouse
button.
Release the mouse button to clip
normally to
MagicView.
Your clip will be saved and inserted at
the cursor position in MagicView.
The MagicView window does not need to be
open to clip.
Once clipped, screen shots can be copied
and freely pasted in other MagicView
pages.
2) Winkey + Alt + F12 to capture a
screen clip directly into Ecco.
Saves the clip at
the currently active ecco item.
This type of clip is
stored directly inside of the ecco
file.
You can drag & drop, copy & paste,
screen clip, or mark & clip directly into MagicView
multiple clips from
web browsers, word processors, Excel, etc.,
etc.
Marking & clipping direct from most web browsers, saves
additional information about each clip including the source.
When viewing clips captured this way (or captured by clipping
directly into ecco), you can instantly
jump to the original page source(s) by pressing Alt + O.
Drag & drop and screen clipping do not allow later
being able to jump back to the original source for webpages, (but
drag & drop does still for Word and Excel clips).
So, if you
want to capture the content of a
webpage, drag & drop works great. If you want to capture
also the location of a webpage, and be able to use Alt + O to
instantly jump to the original clip source(s), use Winkey + Control +
C.
Adding
web clips directly to ecco:
Overview: You can clip directly from
the web to any ecco file. Most web browsers are already
supported (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Maxathon, K-Meleon, Opera,
etc.), if yours is not, we will add it. With most modern
browsers, clips are saved along with the location from which they
were clipped.
A) Mark and clip directly
into Ecco
1) Winkey + Shift + E to paste directly
to your currently active .eco file.
Clips are pasted as siblings to the
currently active item, unless the item is a TLI (top level
item), in which case the clips are pasted as children of that
item.
2) Winkey +
Shift + G to paste directly to your currently active
.eco file and save any
clipped graphics.
If not displayed, MagicView will
open automatically to allow review of the page after saving
clipped graphics locally ("Grounding" the file). Some web
pages will not look nice after grounding. (For example,
pages built internally by javascript, etc.).
You can explicitly 'ground' any page
(ie., save locally the css and graphics attachments) from
the File menu, Ground tool. (or use the Alt +
G shortcut). This applies to
pages created by drag & drop, pages previously
saved without saving graphics locally,
etc.
You can load a webpage directly from
its source (if clipped with source information) using the
File menu, Load Clip Source tool. (If you want
to save the page once loaded, be sure to save
it, loading a clip source does not automatically
re-save the page.)
To paste directly into the "WebMagic
Inbox" folder instead of at the currently active item, use
Winkey + ALT + G
from within your web
browser.
Winkey + ALT + G from within
Ecco will optionally 'link' a particular file for
'WebMagic" clips. Ie., using Winkey + Alt + G
from within a web browser, ill save to the "WebMagic
Inbox" folder in the linked file, regardless as to
what file (if any) is currently active in
Ecco.
If the page does not display as you
desire, (eg., the area copied did not include hidden formatting
info, etc.), from MagicView you can press Alt + Shift + O
to directly load the page into MagicView from the net. If
that looks good, then use Alt + G to ground the new page
contents.
Some pages will not allow themselves to be
copied by either of these approaches. In that case,
use the web browser's built-in "Save As Complete Web Page" or
equivelant command to save the page to disk, and then use
Alt + Shift + L to load into Magic
View.
3) Winkey +
Control + Shift + G to paste directly to your currently active .eco file
a fresh reload of the clipped from page and save any
graphics locally.
a.
This clip works well in many cases where you want to clip an
'exact' copy of the original web page.
b. In
some cases this clip will not work as 'expected' because a fresh
reload of the desired page may result in a different webpage then
the page actually clipped from. This can be caused by
many issues, such as javascript page redirection, page
trapping, security issues with the server, etc.
c.
The page may look different in 'Magic Mode' than
displayed in your browser. 'Viewer' mode more closely
duplicates the 'look' of your web
browser.
4) Winkey + Control +
ALT + G to paste directly to the 'WebMagic' folder a fresh
reload of the clipped from page and save any
graphics.
Ie. this is the same as 3) Winkey + Control + Shift + G,
except it saves to the WebMagic folder instead of at the active
ecco item.
B) Mark, position, and
paste into Ecco
You can
clip from your browser, and then go to Ecco and paste the
clip.
How to do it:
1) Mark the
desired section in your web
browser.
You can even mark text, graphics, or
both.
You can even mark everything with
Control + A.
2) Press Winkey + Control + E
from within the browser.
3) Go to ecco and find where you want to
paste the clip. Select (for example, single click) the
item.
4) Press Winkey + Control + E again from
within Ecco.
To also save any clipped
graphics, paste in Ecco with Winkey + Control +
G
instead.
Usage Note:
When I find something in my web browser that
I want to save, use Winkey+Control+E to clip
it, then go to ecco, and find where I want to
paste it .
Once selected in
ecco where to paste,
Winkey+Control+E inserts the clip
immediately below (as a 'sibling'') the actively selected
item, or as a child if the selected ecco item is a top level
item.
When there are multiple clips
to paste under thesame parent in ecco, use Winkey+Shift+E to paste directly from the browser into
ecco-- at the currently active ecco location.
To
view saved pages, simply use Winkey + ? ( really Winkey +
/ but ? and / are the same physical key on my
keyboard).
To review saved
pages, also use Winkey + <
and Winkey + > (actually "," and "." keys which on my
keyboard are also "<" and ">" ).
F5 also makes flipping back
and forth betweenpages super easy (as does Alt + < and Alt +
>).
C) 'Specialty'
Clips
Overview: MagicView provides several
'specialty' clips for gathering information from the web directly
to an ecco outline. To use these commands, simply mark the
desired portions of any web page, and press the hotkey
combination. The clip is inserted in the active ecco
file, at the currently active item. (Ecco needs to be
running, but does not have to be showing in order to
clip.)
1) Winkey + Shift + Alt +
E the 'most recent clip with
history' tool.
This will replace any existing clip for
that item. Ie. this is the one kind of clip that is
'dangerous' in that it will silently erase an item's
clip.
Be careful with this feature it replaces the clip of the
active item with the new clip.
A text copy of
the new clip is also attached as a child of the new clip
item.
This tool
allows you to search for something specific (for a specific
item), clip it if you think you've found it, and then
instantly update if you find that it is something else you
really wanted. A history of your clips (as textual sub
items) is kept for easy and instant
reference.
This will clip a full text
version as a child (sub item) with an attached links
list.
3) Winkey + Alt + E the
'collection' tool.
Clips to a
special "WebMagic Inbox" folder instead of adding to the currently
selected location in ecco. This tool allows for
clipping now, and sorting out later.
Technical Note:
Clipping directly to Ecco
creates auto entries in folders "URL" and "Webclip?", and if an auto
date folder is set up in your ecco file, the clip date will be
stamped in the autodate folder as well.
The URL folder contains
the web address from which the clip was clipped. After about 10,000
clips, a new folder "URL2" (and then "URL3") is used. (The
MagicView install creates a launch tool to allow right-click launching
of the URL folders.)
The Webclip? folder is checked
if there is a MagicView page associated with that item. Adding a
Webclip? column to your view, makes it easy to see and to filter
for items with MagicView attachments.
If you
have clipped more than 15,000 entries to any single ecco file with
datestamping enabled, you should rename the datestamp folder,
turn off date-stamping for the folder, and create a new
auto-date stamp folder for fresh clips. This is important because date
folders can only have 16,383 item assignments, and file errors/freezing
of file will be generated when that limit is exceeded. (This
applies to all items and files, not just MagicView. For more
information and tutorial see "HOW DO I
FIX MY OVERFILLED AUTO-DATE FOLDER" in the EccoMagic
forums.)
'Exact' HTML content
clips:
Overview: Sometimes you may want parts of a
webpage that you can't normally copy, such as specialty background
color settings, etc. There are several ways to 'capture' exact
HTML content with MagicView.
A) Hotkey any URL
selection.
1) Select a valid URL in *any*
program.
For example, most browsers provide an
URL edit field. Highlight the URL in that
field.
With web pages hidden behind a
referrer URL or topframe, the displayed URL most likely
will not be the actual URL to the page you desire. (In that
case, clip a section of the page, and use the Shift + Alt
+ O page reload feature.)
2) Press Winkey +
Control + Alt + C
(or Winkey + F12 and
select 'New from Url').
B) Drag & Drop raw HTML from the
web.
1) Access the raw HTML from your
browser.
Most browsers provide an option to view
the HTML 'source', either in the File or Edit menus, or by
right clicking on the webpage.
With framed web pages, you'll
likely need to view a frame's source for the actual
HTML.
2) Toggle MagicView to rawHTML mode by
accessing the option in the View menu, or using the Alt + R
shortcut hotkey.
3) Mark the desired HTML in the browser's
source viewer.
4) Simply drag and drop the HTML portions
you desire into MagicView.
5) Toggle out of rawHTML mode (Alt + R).
C) Drag & Drop a saved webpage
file.
1) You can drag & drop .txt and .html
files directly into MagicView.
D) Load a webpage directly from a
file.
1) From the File menu, select "Load New
File" to load any .htm or .html file as the active MagicView page.
Alt + Shift + L is the
hotkey shortcut.
E) Load a clip's original webpage, directly
from the Web.
1) The clip in the active MagicView page
must contain the source information of one or more
clips.
All direct to Ecco clips and most
MagicView clipping methods include the source
information.
2)
From the File menu, select "Load Clip Source" or use the Alt + Shift
+ O hotkey shortcut.
If the active page contains clips from
more than one source, you will be prompted to choose the
source you wish to load.
If you want to save the
page's graphics locally, ground the newly
loaded page by choosing "Ground" from the file menu, or the Alt
+ G shortcut.
Note:
Alt + O opens the original source externally from many
source types (eg. a webpage will open in the browser, a
Word document will open in Word, etc.) and is used to
open the original of all clipped sources outside
of MagicView.
whereas
Alt +
Shift + O is used only when the original source was a webpage,
and replaces the MagicView Page with an exact copy of that
webpage.
Adding PDF and DJVU
documents:
Overview: Links to 'Browser
Objects' such as MHT, PDF and DJVU documents can be saved to
provide seamless viewing with MagicView. The objects can
be located anywhere, including any file's .web
folder. (Object viewpages can be localized or 'grounded'
just like any other MagicView page.)
A) Drag
& Drop .pdf, .djvu or similar files to the MagicView ItemText
box (or Button Strip).
1) You can create an
'empty' MagicView page by clicking on any ecco item (even a new one)
and pressing Winkey + / (or rightclicking on the ">" Navigation button
[and selecting 'Load from Active' if View > Navigation
Menus is selected]). You can drag & drop to an empty
page's ItemText box, or to an existing viewpage's ItemText
box (to replace that page's content).
2) If a single file
is dropped, that 'object' is made the current MagicView
page.
NOTE: Dragging &
Dropping a single file does not automatically save the object in
your ecco file. You will still need save the page with
Control+S or other save operation. If you
'ground' the page "Alt + G" the page
will be saved and the dragged file will be copied to the '.web'
folder (so long as File > Folder Options
> Ground local files is
selected).
3) If multiple files are
dropped, each 'object' is added as a child item of the
currently active ecco item. Ie. With multiple
files, each file is automatically saved as a new ecco
item.
NOTE:
To add an object, drag to the MagicView Button Strip (where
the buttons are located), or to the ItemText box, and not to
the actual MagicView page area.
Adding Links to
other MagicView pages:
Overview:
Links to other MagicView pages (in the same file) can be freely
added.
Winkey + Control + P to create a
link to the currently active item (in the same file as the MagicView
page).
The Link will
be added to a text section if selected.
Winkey + Alt + P to insert the link which was 'grabbed' in Ecco by
pressing Winkey + Alt + P
from within Ecco to 'grab' a link to the active
ecco item.
NOTE:
Activate the link just
like any other-- Clicking on the link (in 'View' mode) or Alt
+ Clicking on the link in Magic
Mode.
Links can be manually
modified using the Alt
+ H hyperlink shortcut
key.
Sharing
MagicView pages among items ("Mirroring")
:
Overview: MagicView Pages can be shared
between ecco items. For example, the viewpage of a phone book
entry can be attached to children of multiple project items.
Modification of any of the cloned pages modifies them
all.
Winkey
+ Control + S
Attaches a 'mirror' of the current viewpage
to the active ecco item (in the same file).
Also available via the File Menu (File >
Save > Mirror at Active).
NOTE: MagicView's 'fail
safe' page saves (when you for example, open a new viewpage before
saving changes to the current page) occur in the background in order
to make page loading faster. If you forget to save a
mirrored viewpage and then load the same viewpage via another item
which shares the mirror, the page initially loaded will be the
'proper' unsaved paged. If you then save the modified
page (via prompt, or automatically if 'QuickView Autosave' is
active) the page you were looking at will be the
prior version of the mirrored paged. This is an issue
only where (1) you modify a mirrored viewpage without saving it and
(2) immediately view the same viewpage via a different ecco
item. In this case, MagicView will automatically update the
viewpage when a background save impacts, (or might impact) upon
the page you are currently viewing.
ADVANCED USER NOTE: For
advanced users, viewpages can be seamlessly shared among multiple
ecco files. You may encrypt any or all of the shared
pages. This is a powerful but advanced feature and requires a
special disk structure for the data file directories. Here is
how you do it: (This will make much more sense if you've
already spent some time reading the rest of the manual, and trying
different features such as storing pages to disk, using the
navigation buttions, etc.
Save at least one
viewpage to disk storage in each file you wish to share the
common data.
Decide which file
will be the 'Master' for the shared
viewpages.
With the files
closed and MagicView inactive, rename all of the .web
pages (exactly the same as file name + .web) to ".web2",
except for the master .web
directory.
Create junction
directories of the master .web directory for each file you
desire to share the info. Name the directories exactly as
the original .web folders were named, and copy all of the
info from the renamed .web2 folders to the new junction .web
folders.
Junctions allow
multiple directories to 'share' the same files.
To compact your combined/shared .web
folder use the File > Folder Options > Cross-File Shared
Folders menu.
First 'Compress the shared .web
folder' for each of the .eco files sharing the
data.
When you've done that for *all*
of the .eco files involved, then "FINALIZE the
compression".
NOTE: Failure to follow this procedure
when compressing shared .web folders will risk data
loss.
For extra protection, you can
'Mark .web folders as shared' from the Cross-File Shared Folders
menu. This will help MagicView prompt you for
possible mis-steps and can help save your from losing
data.
For extra safety, no data is
actually deleted outright. Data is sent to a 'trashbin'
folder in the .web folder, so you can save offline and
then delete in safety.
To share a viewpage simply set the page
to be stored on disk. You can then add the very same
page to any item in any file sharing the .web folder. (eg,
open another file sharing the same .web folder, select any
item and RIGHT click on the LEFT "<" MV
navigation tab [if the Navigation menu is active select the
'Save at Active' option]. This will add the
'mirrored' cross-file viewpage to the new
file.)
A change to the viewpage by any of the
shared files will change the viewpage for all.
Deleting the item attached to a shared viewpage does not delete
the viewpage for other files.
To 'unjoin' files simple copy
all of the files (including
subdirectories) from the shared .web directory to a new
folder. Delete the junctions (Be careful, use proper
junction removal, not just delete. On some systems
delete of junction will destroy your harddisk data
structure. On such systems you must 'remove' the junction,
not delete it.). Once you've removed the junctions
rename the new (non-junction) folders to the appropriate names
for each file. Ie., the file name
".web". (At this point it does not matter which
folder gets which name as all folders have the same
data). Once done, run for each file "Compress
Attachments Folder" from the File > Folder Options
menu. That's it. You can delete the
trasbin sub folder to save data space/clear unwanted
data.
Saving
content:
Overview: Clipping content to a MagicView page does not
automatically save the content. There are helpful options as to
where and what to add to the ecco file.
Page Storage
Options:
One of
the key functions of MagicView is saving view pages directly in
Ecco. You can clip over a Gig of data, up to 8 Megs
per clip this way. (Most clips stored this way will load
faster than other programs which could be used to capture web snippets
such as NetSnippets and MyBase).
MagicView
also has the optional ability to seamlessly store view pages to disk
in the ".web" folder. These pages can be
virtually unlimited in size, and stored encrypted
or unencrypted (just like other view pages). The size
of these pages is not added to your .eco file, but the page
content cannot be searched via ecco. As far as MagicView
is concerned the chosen location of viewpage is seamless, and can be
freely changed simply by saving a page. (The page is saved based
on the page and default settings for storage.)
Per page Storage
options
Winkey + P access the page properties dialog allowing
instant selection of disk or ecco based storage for the
active page. Encryption for the active page can be
selected at the same time.
Global Storage
options
Via the File > Data
Location menu a forced default storage location can be
choosen.
If a forced
location is active it will override manual selection of the
storage choice for any viewpage.
|) will appear by the Item Text box
if forced storage to disk is active.
(||) will appear if
encryption is also set as the
default.
Attaching (Saving) to the active Ecco
item:
The following functions
operate on the current, actively selected Ecco item.
Ecco does not need to
be displayed in order to attach a MagicView page.
The active ecco item
may be a different item, or in a different ecco file, than the
ecco item the page was originally viewed
from.
A) Hotkey
1) From within Ecco, or
MagicView pressing Winkey + Shift + / will attach
(Save) the active page to the active ecco item.
You can also select "Save at Active"
from the File menu, or use the Control + Shift + S hotkey
shortcut.
B) Mouseclick
1) Right click on
the left arrow navigation button "" .
Saving a item's modified MagicView
page:
Overview: When an ecco item's MagicView
page is viewed, you can freely modify and then re-save the
page, even if you are no longer positioned on the original ecco
item, and even if you have changed the active file in
ecco. Re-saving to the original source item requires that
the original file be at least still loaded into
ecco.
A) Shortcut
Hotkey
Control + S saves the active MagicView
page to the item a MagicView page was last viewed
from.
a) It does not
matter what file or item is active in ecco, so long as the file
containing the original item's file is still open (ie. clicking on
ecco's lower right "Files" button shows the file in the open file
list).
b) When you view any
item's MagicView page, or "Save as Active" a MagicView page to any
item, that ecco item is linked to the active MagicView
screen. Control + S will always save to that item.
Winkey +
S saves the active MagicView page
and the Ecco file it is attached to.
B) via Menu
selection
From the File menu, select
"Save".
Note: Menus can be
accessed by
Clicking on the
menu button (right click for 'quick access menus);
or
Pressing the menu's Alt key shortcut;
or
File
menu Alt + F
Edit
menu Alt + D
Format menu Alt + T
View
menu Alt + I
Indexing
Alt + X
Right clicking
on the MagicView page.
Attaching pages to
multiple ecco items:
If multiple ecco items
were viewed together (a 'multiView'), you have the option of
saving the multiView, or a modified page to all of the items at
once. This is useful, for example, to fill template values over
multiple items.
Note:
Saving (with
Control + S or via the menu) will save the current page to
all of the items actively loaded.
If you want to
modify a single item in a multiView, use Alt + L to lift
individual item for editing, and
saving.
To save a multiView to a new
item, use Control + Shift + S, or
another 'new item' saving option.
Saving to a new Ecco item:
When a new item is created to
hold the active MagicView page, the item text is copied from the
"Item Text" box at the bottom of the MagicView window. The
active MagicView page can be saved as a new child, or as a new sibling
of either (1) the currently active ecco item, or (2) the
currently active MagicView page.
1)
(Optional) Set the "Item Text" box text to the desired item
text
Note:
1)
You can toggle the size of the Text edit area
by:
(A) clicking
on the "Item Text" label, or
(B) right
clicking on the Item Text edit box and selecting "Item box
sizing".
2) Control + Shift + I will
copy marked text from the MagicView page to the Text edit area.
2) Create a new child or sibling
item.
Note:
Use "Save Under
Active" to save relative to the current active
item in Ecco, or
Use "Save under
Viewpage" to save relative to the current MagicView
page item.
Select:
"Save as
Child" to save as a child or
"Save as
Sibling" to save as a sibling.
Available shortcuts include:
Winkey +
S
Save MagicView page and Ecco file
Alt + S
Save as Child of current MagicView page
Control + Alt + S
Save as Child of Active Ecco Item
Winkey + Alt + S
Save as Sibling to current MagicView page
Winkey + Control + Alt + S
Save as Sibling of Active Ecco Item
or,
Right Click and select File menu, (or Alt + F
File menu).
NOTE:
Saving a page as a child or sibling does not make the
newly saved to item the 'current' MagicView page
item.
Saving Ecco item text
content:
Overview: Currently there is no way to save or
modify formatting of Ecco item text. For that reason,
MagicView is designed to avoid as much as possible any modification of
the Ecco item text itself. The following are functions which
allow you to create or modify ecco item text from within
MagicView.
Copy Text to
Child.
Control + Alt + C
will copy the text selected in theMagicView
Page to a new child of the currently active
eccoitem.
Note:
'Save at
child' and 'Copy Text to Child' create a new child at the
CURRENTLY SELECTED ITEM IN ECCO, regardless of which file or
item the original MagicView Page is attached
to.
Whereas, 'Copy Text to Item', copies the selected text as
the new item text for the item with which the MagicView page
is attached to, regardless of which file
or item is currently selected in
Ecco.
Copy to Item
Text.
Control + Alt + Shift +
C will replace the MagicView
page's item's text
with:
A) The text selected in the
MagicView Pane, or,
B) if the Item Text
Line is selected/active in MagicView, the text in the 'Item
Text'
box.
Winkey + Control + Alt + Shift + C
will restore the original item text. Ie., essentially
'undo'.
Note:
'Copy to item
Text' will instantly replace the item text of the item to which
the MagicView page is attached-- regardless of what file or item
is currently displayed or active in Ecco.
You can
add/modify the text to an Ecco text item, but ALL the
text formatting within the item will be lost. For this
reason extensive editing of Ecco text from within MagicView is not
recommended.
Text formatting that applies
to the first character of the item will be applied to all of the
text added/modified by
MagicView.
Encryption:
MagicView uses
MicroSoft's AES 192/256 bit strong encryption. This is good if you
want military grade encryption, but not so good if you lose your
password, or are running older OS such as Windows 2000. (MS AES
strong encryption will work only with XP, Windows 2003, etc.,
and newer OS).
Page encryption
is seamless, so that an encrypted page once loaded can be edited
and freely resaved encrypted as the
original.
Important
notes:
Any localized files (from the file's .web
directory) included in encrypted pages are 'exposed'. Neither
the local files nor the file names are encrypted. To
'hide' local files included in encrypted pages, simply
use links to files in a directory other than the '.web'
directory for that ecco file. Ie. everything in
a secured page is encrypted, except for the names of
any localized files attached to that page. If you attach
files not located in the official .web directory, there is no
way for anyone to know that any files are attached to the page, or
where or what files might be
attached.
Multiple users can save encrypted pages
within the same .eco file, with each user's password being
unique.
You cannot as a realistic matter recover a
lost password. If you need to recover lost data, we can
attempt a 'brute force' attack to discover the password and recover
your data. Depending upon the length of the password,
assuming you used only the charachers A-Z in the text of your
password, with a dedicated quad multi-processor dedicated to the
task 24/7, discovery of the password will take several months to
several decades. (Note that as with any protection based on
passwords, a short & simple password can be 'hacked' by an
expert in less than a year. Even a longer, more
complex password (more than just A-Z used as characters) is likely
not beyond the range of a supercomputer 'brute force'
attack.)
Please be careful with encryption.
If you encrypt and forget your password, even if you pay
for data recovery, and a machine set up dedicated to that
task, it could take several decades for you to see your data
again. ( If you lose a long, complex password,
there is no realistic hope to recover your data during our
lifetimes.)
As with browsing web pages or viewing Word
documents, system cache files may contain a copy of
the contents viewed. To avoid this, use a
cache scrubbing program, and/or, use a program like PGP and save
an encrypted version of your notes in MagicView, and use
only the PGP secured viewer to decrypt and
view. Ie. Since MagicView relies upon Windows to
display graphics, etc., normal windows cache locations may contain
traces of what was viewed.
Note: Unlike programs like MyBase,
MagicView does not save a copy of your pages to
disk, nor load them via Microsoft's normal page
cached loads. In this respect there is a much higher degree of
security, but, memory is not locked against paging,
and there could be traces of what you
view.
Mass
Encryption.
Default encryption (for advanced
users). It is possible to set up a default template
which automatically encrypts. (See more
on default templates below.) Simply include "<META
EMCRYPT>" after the "<HEAD>" tag in your default
template form.
The "Always Encrypt"
feature. (File > Encryption
menu)
While activated ALL
pages are saved encrypted, but the encryption is not
'seamless'. The next time the page is saved
or edited it will not be saved encrypted unless manually set
to encrypted or the "Always Encrypt" option is enabled
at that time. The purpose of this is to
avoid data loss-- saving encrypted data
without realizing it.
If you load an encrypted 'Always
Encrypt' page, and save it with Always Encrypt off, the
page will save as a normal, unencrypted page. By
contrast, a page manually set to "Page
Encryption", is 'seamless' and will automatically
be re-saved encrypted.
An *
is displayed next to the
Item Text box when default encryption is
active.
Navigation
Buttons:
The
Navigation buttions are multi-function buttons, providing
different tools based on click combinations. In addition to
the 'combination click' operation of the navigation
buttons, if the "Navigation Menus" option is selected (View
menu) a right click (without any click modify key
being pressed) on either Navigation Button will activate the navigation
menu for that button. Every navigation button function
(other than 'load previous' and 'load next'-- the unmodified left click
function of each button) can be selected.
Left Click
Load previous item in Ecco file
Right Click
Save page to currently active Ecco item
Shift + Left Click
Add previous item in Ecco file
Control + Left Click
Jump to previous item of a multiView
Alt + Left Click
Move back in page view history
Shift + Right Click
Save page (at orginal location)
Shift + Control + Left Click
Mirror page at active Ecco item
Control + Right Click
Share page with another MagicView session
Left Click
Load next item in Ecco file
Right Click
Load active Ecco item
Shift + Left Click
Add next item in Ecco file
Control + Left Click
Jump to next iem of a multiView
Alt + Left Click
Move forward in page history
Shift + Right Click
Reload page
Shift + Control + Left Click
Insert link to active Ecco item
Control + Right Click
Get page from another MagicView session
Viewing & Editing
content
QuickView
Overview: QuickView allows for the quick viewing and
editing of the MagicView pages for any ecco item in the active
file. The MagicView page of the current Ecco item is
automatically displayed in MagicView. QuickView can
be activated for all files or a single ecco
file. (Remember, you can always manually load view
pages for items with Winkey + ? or Winkey + Z, or
right click on the right navigation button.)
Note: Most pages load quickly, but extremely large pages
may take a moment or two to load.
Press
Winkey + Q to activate
QuickView from MagicView or Ecco.
(You can also activate
QuickView via the File menu)
Press
Winkey + Shift + Q to
activate QuickView for the active file only.
If you switch files
with the QuickView single file option activated, the feature will be
paused. In this mode, to activate QuickView when viewing different
files, manually toggle the
feature.
Quickview single file mode allows you to
have each of multiple MagicView sessions linked to a different ecco
file. ( Activation from within the desired MagicView
session by pressing Winkey + Shift + Q insures you are linking the
desired session with the active file. )
Note: An
alternative multi-session setup that works well also, is to have an
'internal' sidebar session in QuickView mode, and a secondary
external session in manual mode.
Press Winkey + Alt + Q to toggle QuickView AutoSave.
(Found also on the File >
Folder Options
menu)
Normally, MagicView will only save changes you make to
a page based upon your explicit instruction to do so. Eg.,
Control + S, Shift right click on the left navigation
button, or a confirmation to a 'Save This?'
dialog. In AutoSave mode, changes are
automatically saved when a new view page is loaded. The
feature is convenient, but involves some risk-- all and any
changes will be saved without your confirmation.
NOTE: There
is an alternative method for QuickView to interface with
ecco. For most systems and notepad setups the alternative
will work faster than the default. The alternative method
does not work on some unique system setups, and so is not the
initial default. You can select the alternative method via
File > Folder Options > Alternate QV connection.
The selection take effect the next time QuickView is activated (so
if you changes the setting while QuickView is activated,
toggle QuickView on and off once to activate).
Please
initially test your QuickView connection method with AutoSave turned
OFF, so that there will be no risk of data loss. (Either
connection method is a good choice depending upon what works best on
your system.)
Also Note: if using the 'slang'
extension, do NOT close an untitled ecco file while QuickView
is connected to that file. Closing untitled (ie.
newly created and yet unsaved ecco session with no actual file in
disk) sessions with the slang extension while connected to QuickView
can crash your ecco session. Just be sure to turn off
the QuickView connection before closing any "untitled"
file. (You can switch files freely, but do not close
any untitled file actively connected to
QuickView.)
Instant
Zoom
Overview: Instant Zoom allows for the quick
zooming and of the MagicView pages from any MagicView
sate. Instant Zoom can be used while MagicView is in
standalone or in 'sidebar' mode.
Press F11 to toggle Instant
Zoom.
For zooming
the size of a viewpage, use the "Zoom" slider.
Clicking on "Zoom" will restore the
zoom to 100%.
Alt + Z
, Alt + Shift +
Z, and Alt + Control
+ Z (or Control
+ minus and Control
+ plus) will also zoom out, zoom
in, zoom at 100%, respectively.
Hotkey viewpage
load
1) With the cursor on any
ecco item with saved content, press Winkey + Z from within ecco, or Winkey + / from within ecco or
MagicView to view. You can also simply double click on
any ecco item with an attached MagicView
page.
A) Double Clicking is enabled with full install.
(Executing "MagicViewView.exe" will also restore proper
functionality.)
B) Double Clicking on empty items (ie. items without attached
MagicView pages) will not invoke MagicView.
C) Because double clicking requires Ecco to process the item you
click on, items may update slower, even much slower
than the 'instant' update of Winkey + / .
D) You can run MagicViewView.exe from scripts/extended
rules to have MagicView open the currently selected item's
page.
2) You can also press Winkey + Alt
+ / from within ecco to view the saved content of
the active ecco item directly in your default
browser.
3) From ecco or from within
MagicView, Winkey +
< and Winkey + > will
move to the next/previous item in your .eco file and display the saved
content (if any).
A) Alt + <
and Alt + >
move back and forward between recently viewed MagicView
pages.
History Menu
F5activates the
'History'
menu.
You
can select one or
multiple pages to view.
Use
Alt + L
to pull a page from a multiple page view,
(multiView borders must be enabled), to edit any selected item,
and then press Alt "<" (or click again on the timeline selection
panel) to instantly reload the multiple page
selection.
This feature is invaluable when working
on projects with multiple data
pages.
Note: So long as
the file is still open in any ecco session, you can view a page from the
history menu even if that page is in a file other than the currently
active ecco file. (You can also view pages from entirely different
ecco sessions opened with EccoMagic's 'Ecco Multiplexer' tool.)
When selecting multiple pages to view from the history menu, only
pages from the same file as the first selected item will be
included.
Multiple clips can be viewed from ecco (or the history menu)
at the same time. Just select them, and view.
A) The View -
multiView Borders option controls whether the multiView clips are
defined by individual item.
B) multiViews can
be printed, exported, or 'dragged & dropped into Word, emails,
etc.' as reports.
C) When multiView borders are selected,
you can:
1) Move back
and forth between item sections using Alt + PageUp and
Alt +
PageDown.
2) Jump directly to any section using Alt + Home.
3) Edit any
individual page by pressing Alt + L, and
then Control +L to jump
back.
5) The normal mode for viewing is "Magic"
mode.
A) You can add additional clips (pasting,
drag&drop, etc.), add links, add graphics links, etc.
B) You can also edit, ie. take
notes.
C) If you edit a 'combo' clip and save
it, you will be replacing the single (or original) clip with the full
combined multi-clip.
6) An alternative mode is "View"
mode.
A) View mode is useful in two
primary ways. First, the page is displayed 99.999% exactly like
the page would appear in a standard web browser. Second, you
can press on links directly.
B) To alternate
modes you press F2, or click on
the 'Mode" button.
C) You can also directly select 'Magic'
mode via Alt + M, and 'View' mode via Alt + V.
NOTE: You can activate links even while in 'Magic' mode, by
holding down the "Alt" key while clicking on the
link.
NOTE: By default, links are
opened in a fresh browser window. It is highly recommended to use the
MagicView in this way. If, however, you desire to view linked pages
inside MagicView itself (you can instantly save them), in the View Menu
there is an option to 'Browse Internally' within MagicView itself.
7) You can instantly create an
index for any page.
A) By using the
"Index" button (or Alt + X), you can create new index
entries.
i) Any
highlighted text will be the default bookmark name. If shift
is held down when "Add Bookmark" is clicked, the bookmark will
be added instantly, with the markre-selected when the bookmark
is
accessed.
ii) You can 'instantly' add selected text as a book mark by
Right Clicking on the Index button ( )
. Ie. this is the same as left clicking and then
selecting Add
Bookmar,.
iii) Bookmarks are saved with the MagicView page in your
ecco file, and will be available whenever that page is
accessed.
iv) Adding a
">" prefix to any bookmark name will cause the mark to re-select
the text selected at the time of marking, as opposed to just moving
to the mark location. (The ">" is not included in the
bookmark name).
B) To jump to any bookmark, just click on the bookmark in
the indexlist.
C) To delete any bookmark, hold
the control key down and select that bookmark from the
indexlist.
D) To add a hyperlink to any bookmark, use Alt
+ H to add a hyperlink and enter #EM# followed by the exact bookmark
name. You can insert a table of contents to all bookmarks in a
viewpage by holding down Shift and Control when Selecting "Add
Bookmark" from the Index menu.
8) Helpful when working with multiView, or page history,
Alt + Shift + Control + V will
mark all items currently displayed in MagicView as EM Favorites,
and open the EM Favorites view in ecco.
A) Alt + Shift + V toggles the
EM Favorites folder setting in ecco for all items in the active
MagicView display.
B) You can also
directly remove items from the EM Favorites folder in ecco manually,
as you would any other
folder.
C) For
example, try Alt + Shift + Control + V for any item's page,
and see the EM Favorites view open. Any item's
page can be added or removed from the view from within MagicView by
using Alt + Shift + V.
Viewing options
The
"View" menu allows selection of many different viewing options,
including:
1. Attaching
MagicView as an Ecco sidebar or viewpane.
MagicView can be used as an
external window, a sidebar to Ecco, or as a view pane
inside
Ecco.
To toggle Ecco attachment
mode, press Winkey + Control + Z
from within Ecco or
MagicView. ( View > As
Sidebar from the MagicView option
menus).
To toggle between
sidebar and viewpane modes when attached to
Ecco, use the "Internalize" option in the View menu
(Winkey + Alt +
Z). The internalize option is only
relevant when MagicView is attached to Ecco (View > As Sidebar) and determines if
MagicView is attached as a sidebar or as an internalized viewpane
within Ecco. (This can also be selected per each viewtab
individually (Control + Shift +
F6), so that for selected tabs MagicView is a
sidebar, and for others, an
internal viewpane.)
When attached as an internaized
viewpane the following applies:
In a single view Ecco notepad,
the MagicView sidebar is added over the right side of the
notepad. Normally the MagicView pane is set at
50%. To reduce the pane size to 1/3, select the
View > MagicView Size > Smaller Frame
option.
In a double view notepads, the
sidebar is added over the right side of the notepad. You can
manually control the size of the MagicView pane by resizing the
notepad's left side.
In triple view notepads,
the sidebar is added over the lower right corner view of the
notepad, and by manually setting the size of that pane,
you can exactly control the size of the MagicView
window.
Winkey + H to minimize
MagicView.
F11 to maximize
MagicView.
F6
to toggle a smaller MagicView frame
size.
Shift + F6 to toggle a larger
MagicView frame size.
Alt + F6 to toggle the default
MagicView frame location left or right.
Control + F6 to exclude the current
notepad for MagicView 'internal'
mode.
Control + Shift +
F6 to edit the view exclusion list. "Calendar" = 1,
"PhoneBook" = 2, etc. Use the same numbers as used for Alt +
Number view change shortcut in Ecco. Enter a list of numbers,
eg., "5,6,8".
NOTE: When attched to
Ecco, the MagicVew "Compact","Standard", and "Broad" sizing do
not apply to the MagicView pane size. Those options
apply to MagicView when viewed as an external, stand-alone
window. The "Smaller Frame", "Larger Frame", "Left
Frame", and "Top Frame" options control sizing when MagicView is
attached to Ecco as an internal viewing pane. (View > MagicView
Size). "Maximize" (F11) and "Minimize" (Winkey
+ H) apply in all view
modes.
To move an attached MagicView
pane from one Ecco instance to another, press Winkey + Control + Z from
the Ecco instance you desire to move the pane to. (Using
MagicView with multiple Ecco instances requires first applying the
freeware EM patch to ecco32.exe available at the www.EccoTools.com
board.)
MagicView will always start as an independant
window if another MagicView session is already attached to ecco. Each
different session of MagicView will apply its own settings.
Be sure to properly setup multiple MV sessions if attached to the same
Ecco instance. (For example one MV session on top,
another set as bottom, and each Ecco view setup with at
least two additional views for placing the MV sessions).
Advanced control
'tricks':
Note: When
resizing panes in Ecco, you'll see the cursor change to a
black double arrow with a vertical or horizontal bar
in the middle. That is when you can click to drag &
resize panes. If you see a double white arrow, or arrows
without the vertical or horizontal bar in the middle-- that is not
exactly the right location, move a little bit to find the
'spot'.
Making a "MagicView"
Tab. This 'trick' allows you to turn a notepad tab
into a MagicView tab. Steps:
Add a Tab to ecco
(View > Notepads > New Notepad).
Then add another. It
doesn't matter what folders, best to use fresh, 'empty'
ones.
'Grab' the border between
the two views and resize them so that you entirely close the right
view by moving the bar all the way to the
right.
For advanced users, a
side by side calendar that does not have a tab (Ecco's File >
Properties > Display) will act as a MagicView pane if accessed
via Alt + 1.
Two views and External
"MagicView". This allows you to setup specific tabs
to have two notepads and no
MagicView.
Add a third notepad to your
two view notepad.
Drag the third window
almost all the way closed.
But leave a tiny bit of 'edge'.
With a little play you'll
understand the idea here. A very small, even so small
you can't see it but it's still there, 3rd pane will force
MagicView to external mode.
Note: if you close the 3rd
pane by right clicking on its folder tab, you've created
a manually adjustable single pane + MagicView
view. You can control the exact width by
adjusting the vertical dividing bar.
You can 'grab' the
horizontal adjustment bar even if you can't really see
it. If you 'close' the 3rd pane, you can
'reopen' by dragging up the bar-- from the very
bottom.
Single view and
External MV.
Create a two view external
MV notepad, and adjust the second pane so that it is nearly
invisible. You'll need to leave a tiny bit more
than with the 3rd pane, enough to see a sliver of the edge
of the pane's original scroller bar on the right
side.
A little play with this will
make perfect.
Calendar/Phonebook to
Right of MV.
Juse the View > MagicView
Size > Left Frame
option.
2. Keeping MagicView
shown always on top.
Toggle "Always Show" from the View menu,
or use the Winkey + S shortcut.
3. Instant MagicView Sizing when used as 'stand-alone' window.
Winkey + M for Compact
Winkey + Control + M for
Midsized
Winkey + Shift + M for Larger
F11 for Full screen
Winkey + H for
minimized
Play
freely with any of the viewing options above or that you'll find in the
"View" menu.
NOTE: Very much recommended not to generally use the "Browse
Internally" mode. This mode is not relating to the type of MagicView
pane, but instead, how links are handled when clicked.
While MagicView can technically 'browse' (when clicking on a link in
'View' mode, the linked page is downloaded and can be displayed in
MagicView or in a normal browser window) MagicView is not a
browser, and not designed to be a browser per-se, and uses only the
default protection settings (ie. often NONE depending on your
systems' setup) against 'cookies', pop-ups and the
like.
Saving Graphics,
formating, etc.
GRAPHICS
Graphics can take up a
*HUGE* amount of space, and although the option for saving graphics
along with your web clips is integrated into MagicView, the core
purpose of the program is information gathering and management.
Images and attachments are saved in a special ".web" folder in
the same directory as your ".eco" (or ".ecc") file. The
folder has the same name as the ecco file, with the extension
".web". You can 'zip' the directory to transfer or
share attachments. Clips with saved attachments will work
without the .web folder, but you won't see the attached
images.
To stop an image while it
is downloading, or to cancel the download of an image (including in
cases where an image's download gets 'stuck'), press Control + Alt + F1.
All of the text from
saved clips is stored within your .eco file unless you specify
otherwise. MagicView will compress and often clean up some of
the 'html code' of saved pages. If you want to archive web pages
for "evidence", it is best to have a directory dedicated for that
purpose. Just use your browser's built-in save complete web page
feature. To add the saved page to ecco (so you can find it later),
view (in your browser) the page you have saved to disk, and clip part
(or all) of the content to ecco. So long as the directory you saved
the webpage to exists in the same location, or you "Ground" the
MagicView pages, they will always show the graphics, etc. when viewed.
MagicView allows clipping screen shots either into MagicView
pages, or directly into Ecco as sub-items.
You can freely copy and
paste graphics images within and between MagicView pages. Simply
mark the area to copy, Control + C copy, and then Control
+ V to paste where desired. To copy an image as a 'hard'
image that you can paste in any program that allows pasting
of graphics, control + right click on the
image, and select "Copy" from the dropdown
menu.
Note:
1. The features of EM Screen2Ecco
for pasting screen clips into ecco are built-in to MagicView.
Press Winkey + F12 to
activate.
2. When clipping from a disk archive
of a web page, to see the graphics, etc.
from Ecco, unless the page is "Grounded", the
directory folder of the archive must be in exactly the same location
when the page is viewed. (Note: Unlike when clipping
from a disk archive, when pages have been "Grounded", MagicView's
automatically maintained add-on attachment directory can be anywhere,
so long as the ecco file is there as well.)
3. To compress the
files in the attachment directory and remove any old attachments that
are no longer linked to any item's MagicView page, use the File > Folder Options > Compress
Attachments Folder tool.
Depending on machine speed and the size of
the file, reconciliation can take some time. (A
completion message pop-us when
done.)
This tool is best use only
occasionally. The file where the active MagicView page is
located is reconciled. There is usually no benefit internally to
the ecco file (although any page fragments will be removed). Each
individual file needs to reconciled
separately.
For 'advanced' user's who have setup their disk
structure to allow sharing viewpages between ecco files, it
is important to remember to COPY each ".web" folder,
and copy each .eco file (and .web folder) to a seperate directory
before doing compression. After compressing all
'conjoined' files, copy back the .eco files, delete
all the files in the original 'conjoined' .web folders and
copy the compressed .web folder content back to the original
location. Ie., Any one file's compression cannot
be aware of the needs of other files. Files not needed by
one .eco file may be needed by another in the sared file
space. So, by making two copies of the file
space, each file compress will clear unneeded files
from that file's .web space. When recombined
all is well. Remember too, it is not necessary to
*ever* compress the attachments folder-- it just saves disk space
(and clears memory and space in the .eco file caused by error
conditions or system failures,
etc.).
4. You can easily insert links
to graphics images in your MagicNotes by dragging & dropping
any graphics file.
A) If you want to include the image in the
file's .web directory, either:
i) Copy to file to that directory
first, and then drag & drop into MagicView;
or
ii) If the "Ground local files" option is
set, Ground the page after the images have been added,
and the images will be automatically copied to the
file's ".web" directory. ( NOTE: Grounding does not
copy local files to the .web directory unless the File > Folder Options > Ground local
files option is selected. )
B) If text is selected at the time you drop
an image into MagicView, the image will be inserted
immediately prior to the selected text. Otherwise, images are
inserted at the beginning of the MagicView page.
C) If you drag a image to the MagicView
button sidebar and hold down 'Shift' while releasing, you will
be prompted for advanced photo options. You can also
modify these options by pressing Alt + P when any image is
selected.
D) You can resize images by dragging
the edge 'dots' which appear when an image is selected.
E) By
right clicking on any image, you can instantly shrink the image to
'thumbnail' size, restore the full size of the image, or view
the image in the standard image
viewer.
FORMATING
Many modern web pages use
special "style sheets" known as CSS, to save the formatting information
for the displayed pages. So long as you can access the original site,
and so long as the formatting file is available, you will normally see
the original formatting in your clip views. However, if you want to make
sure that you will always see the original formatting, you can
"Localize" the CSS. Simply:
A)
Select the "Localize CSS" command from the edit menu,
B) Copy a clip into MagicView using
shift+Control+V,
C)
Copy a clip from a browser using Winkey + Alt + C,
or
D)
Use the "Ground" function.
NOTE:
The CSS style information can be larger, sometimes 2-3 times larger, than
the actual text you are gathering. In most cases its not necessary to save
the CSS style info of a web clip.
Private
Notes
Private notes can be added
to any view page via Control +
F8 or the Format > Advanced
Formatting menu.
F8
toggles display of the notes.
Shift
+ F8 toggles display of the note
markers.
Notes:
Moving or deleting any collapsed note asterick pair
will move or delete the collapsed note.
Hiding private notes does not remove them from the
view page. If other users have acces to the viewpage they
can toggle display, and, exported pages include a copy
of hidden notes in the export.
Deletion of collapsed note maker pairs will entirely
delete private note.
Searching within
Ecco
To
search for text within MagicView pages, within Ecco search "entire
File" and search "all columns". To search for text within the 'tag
lines' search only
"Text".
One trick is
to use filters as part of your search. You can create a
filter for items with some value in the "MagicView?" folder to limit
searches exclusively to MagicView pages. You can also use any
category tags (folders) as filter/search criteria to search for and/or
select all the pages tagged with specific folder(s)
tags.
You can
select tens, even hundreds of MagicView page items, and view them
as a single MagicView page. (May take a few moments to load a
large number of pages, or multiple pages that are extremely long--
be patient). You can then, for example, drag and drop
your results MagicView page directly into Word, etc.
Other cool
stuff....
Control + Left Clicking in "Viewer"
mode allows access to an alternate 'browsing style' context
menu.
Control + F11
toggles between Ecco and MagicView.
Color Control Controls
Shift +
Click on the "Highlight" button will highlight an entire
paragraph.
Shift +
Click on the "Color" button will likewise apply text
color to an entire paragraph.
Click on the ">>"
box next to "Highlight" or "Color" to set the highlighter or
fontcolors.
Shift + Control +
Click on "Highlight" or "Color" buttons will remove any
paragraph wide background or font color
setting.
Control + Click on "Highlight" to remove text
highlighting. (Alt + Space removes
background and font color on other text selections. Setting the
text color to black removes font color.)
Control + Click on color well next to the Highlight and
Color buttons, will toggle 'Color Well' mode, making the active color
selection large & bright. (Option is
provided for those who find it helpful, normally off by default
to avoid the distraction of bright colors in the command
panel.)
Right Click on the color well next to
Highlight will clear the selection's background color, (shift +
right click to clear paragraph background color).
Right Clock on the color well next to Text
will clone the selection's colors (shift + right click to clone
paragraph colors).
Note:
Paragraph or 'box' highlighting can be incredibly helpful
for highlighting and offsetting information in a clip.
For web pages
that don't use paragraphs (even thought visually it may look like they
do), create your own paragraph by simply pressing Alt + Control
+ P at the desired paragraph start. You can do the same by
pressing the "Enter" key where you want the highlight box to appear,
then mark the text you want included and drag it to where you created
the new line with the
"Enter".
Use
Shift + Enter to enter 'soft' returns (ie. vs Enter to start a new
item/paragraph).
As in ecco, most commands
can be launched in multiple ways. In addition to the command's
hotkey, most commands can be triggered via the main function menus
and the menus' Alt key shortcuts.
Many features which are
typical to other Windows programs (such as MS Word), may not have
been specifically listed in this documentation. Please see the
menus for a full listing of features. For example, you can
'Search & Replace''
(Control +
F) your
pages and clips, and 'Find Next" (F3) , etc. Hopefully, use of those basic functions should
be
self-explanatory.
Hopefully, also, most
'hidden' features are mentioned (Such as holding down the shift
key when pressing 'Enter' or clicking "Find" in the Search & Replace
dialog to search backwards, and holding down the control key in order to
suppress the "Text Not Found, Search from Beginning/End of Page ?"
prompt).
Normally
you will not be able to
activate links
to files and programs on your own computer unless you send the page to a
browser, useAlt +
Click. The idea behind requiring this additional
step is to protect against clips containing 'dangerous' links or scripts
trying to activate programs on your machine. Alt + Click will allow you to activate
links even while in 'Magic' mode. You can also right
click on a link and select "Jump to
Link".
Misc. 'usage' notes and
tips:
Have taken to the practice of sending misc.
requested info to friends & family directly from my organized ecco
clips. I just select the relevant ecco outline sections, press
Winkey + / to load the 'combo view' and then drag & drop the
indexed clip into an email.
The only problem with this so far is
that I keep getting asked to let them know from whom I forwarded
the mail. For some reason the info in this format looks like a
report someone else wrote up and I was just forwarding on...
go figure.
MagicView is an Ecco 'Add-On'-- if you have
problems starting MagicView, try it with ECCO first running.
(Although Ecco's window does not need to be
open).
Block Calc will
calculate ACROSS each line in the block, and then add the totals
together.
All basic math functions work, as do
parens. Additional math functions
include:
^
'Power of'
and for programming
types:
Base16
(0xFF) freely interchangable
with Base10
(
Include "#HEX#" in block for Hex result
)
<< and
>> Bit
Shifting
&, !|, and
| And, Nor, and
Or
MagicView is designed to clip from a variety of
sources, including web pages from the internet. MagicView will
have a hard time initializing or clipping pages if internet access is
blocked by firewall programs such as
ZoneAlarm.
Check out the F5 tool. Note that you
can either double click on a single item, -or-, you can select multiple
items (shift or control click), and then click on the 'click to open' link
at top of history box to open multiple pages at the same time.
(Be
sure to move the history box out of the way to see
MagicView)
Sometimes
web pages will use 'fancy' quotes or other unusual Glyphs. Unless
such pages properly identify codepage, MagicView accepts the text
literally (because sometimes the aberrant glyphs are intentional, or part
of an improperly identified unicode page). In such a case, you'll see
something like this-- "under a “parent.” ". Instant fix via File > Strip > Aberrant
Glyphs (or Winkey + Alt + A).
Fixes example text to "under a parent. ", etc.
Margins, line spacing, etc., can be set by a
number of pixels (eg. "7"), by a percentage (eg., "10%"
margins or "130%" line height), or by point size (eg.,
"18pt").
By preceding the margin size with "<" or ">"
the individual margin size of the left or right margin can be individually
selected.
Preceding the padding value with ">" will apply the
same value to both padding and
margins.
Dragging image files (from the local hard disk
or the net) will insert the image at the cursor.
Alt + P allows editing the Image's properties.
Dragging
HTML or TXT files will append the html or text to the active MagicView
page.
Dragging any other file will create a link to the file for
the marked text. If no text is marked, a link will be
created at the bottom of the page, with the link's file name as the linked
text.
MagicView can store up to 8 megs of data per
viewpage per ecco item, and a virtually unlimited amount of data per
viewpage per ecco item if the data location is set for disk storage.
You can drag literally hundreds of HTM, HTA, HTML
and TXT files into a magicview page (drag to Item Text box and
hold down shift key) and combine into a single magicview page.
This
help file is over 250,000 bytes in size, and hopefully works
smoothly on your system. HUGE viewpages of 2, 8, or 10+
megs will work fine, but on most systems some functions will respond
*very* slowly. Please be patient. Even basic
functions such as Alt-X (index) Winkey-P (page encryption),
and others, may respond very, very slowly on
multi-megabyte single viewpages.
Also note that on
huge pageview items stored in ecco, you may see ecco 'flicker' when
the item is opened, or saved. This is normal, as is the slight
'lag' in loading and saving huge viewpages inside of
ecco.
MagicView's
tray icon includes a 'Next Right Click' tool for those who are mouse
oriented. After activation, the next time the right mouse
button is clicked, the Winkey + F12 Clip menu is
activated.
And, for 'programming types':
You can
use the Control + R command to
instantly move back and forth between the clip text and the raw HTML and
incorporate directly any HTML formatting you desire-- including
javascript. Some tiny level of HTML compatibility cleanup is controlled by
MagicView. (If you want true 100% control, use an html
editor.)
You can use your own page default HTML should you desire.
Simple save the html template with the file name
"EM_DefaultView.html" in the MagicView program
directory. Remember the template gets added to every default
note, so best to keep size compact.
You can also set the
background color or image for any individual page. By entering
"http://...." when prompted for a file name, you can use a file from
the web. If you want the background saved, be sure to
Ground the page if using an image from the web, or, use an
image from the .web directory. (Copy the image to the file's
.web and select that image as the background image). [if the
.web directory doesn't exist for your file, just ground any clip
with web images, and the directory will be created. Or just
manually create the directory, same as the ecco file's name,
with the .web extension]. Advanced,
control of MagicView's use of ecco folders is also available (although not
recommended except where no file will have more
than 10,000 Magic View pages, in which case the 'Manual Folders' option
will give a speed improvement for slower systems).
1) The Alternate Folders option allow a
second set of web clips for items. You can manually select to
force the alternative folder set, or to make that the default for
any file. You can also de-selected the alternative folder
set, (useful when there are 20,000 - 30,000 clips in a file, and
thousands of older clips are then removed).
2) The Strict page choice option restricts
MagicView's choice of folders to the selected default-- even if it is
empty and there is a viewpage saved in the alternative folder.
This is something that normally works automatically,
but additional functionality is exposed for advanced
users.
3) The
Manual Folders option can provide some speed improvement for slower
systems, but should only be used on ecco files with up to 10,000
MagicView pages. Manual Folders mode will work perfect up to about 50%
of capacity, about 15,000 pages per file, but will be stuck in manual
mode.
NOTE: You are viewing an extensive,
yet pre-release version of the help file. Please look at
program menus for more info.
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