Zoot 9.0 | Preview 2
Tom Davis
Rick Grant
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Tom Davis
· Windows 11 Ready!
· Added in-line tags to the Zoot Tags suite. Now you can add tags to an item without taking your fingers off the keyboard. Just add a # symbol before any word to create a tag. This works in the Subject, Comments, and Document fields.
· Zoot will display PDF files in the Document Viewer for File Links or Mail Items that have PDF file attachments. This lets you view the PDF file without leaving Zoot.
· Optimized Tag Search speed. This optimization also applies to any Smart Folders that are based on the Tag field.
· The Print feature is vastly improved now that all print jobs go through your default browser. Modern browsers do a better job of printing and this change also makes for a much improved Print to Browser experience. * Ctrl+P
· Many refinements to Twitter, YouTube and Reddit feeds.
· Much work on Slim Reader for E-Mail. Should display 99% of your e-mails in a very tight horizontal space. This lets you view e-mails in a narrow view much as you would on a smart phone. As a result you can then expand the width of the Item Grid so you can see more items in the grid and more field data in columns.
· Improved dark mode display, especially for e-mail newsletters, which tend to exhibit a wide array of formatting quirks.
· E-mail gets a new option that works with the existing Fetch function. When Zoot retrieves an e-mail you've sent that contains a URL, Zoot will fetch the corresponding web page and then upload it back to the mail server. The original e-mail with the URL is replaced with the fetched web page. Now you have a reader-friendly version of the content in the cloud! The new setting is located on the System tab of the Account Settings dialog. This feature only works with IMAP e-mail servers - it won't work with POP3 mailboxes.
· If you receive and e-mail from someone else and that e-mail includes a link, you can fetch the link and Zoot will display it below the original e-mail.
· When searching with Zoot's Search Box applet, your searches are saved in the Web database. Now these searches will be saved to the Web database even if Zoot is not running. * Ctrl+Alt+?
· Zoot's Search Box applet will bring up the Windows Dictation Bar when Dragon speech recognition is not running so that you can still enter a query by voice. Speak your query and then say DO IT to launch the search. There is a Microphone checkbox at the bottom of the Search Box window to turn this feature on/off. Note that the speech-to-text applet is much better in Windows 11.
· Bang searches are now allowed in the Search Box apple
· Zoot will now fetch Google Podcast URLs as it does with Pocket Casts URLs. Still not as good as Pocket Casts, which is the recommended Podcast Player for use with Zoot.
· If you send a Microsoft To Do check list to Zoot via e-mail, Zoot will convert it to an interactive check list.
· Fetching Google Search URLs will produce a sleek new search results presentation. The results are weirdly useful for discovery. * Ctrl+~
· Fetching Washington Post URLs will produce a cleaner article. * Ctrl+~
· Zoot will now fetch Mix URLs. Mix is a very nice discovery website with apps for both iOS and Android. * Ctrl+~
· Added a Reddit Desktop Database to complement the Twitter and Feeds Desktop Databases. To create a Reddit database, just create a new database and select the new Reddit database template.
· Zoot will now fetch all of the images from Reddit Gallery posts.
· Zoot now supports Reddit Search feeds.
· Added a Podcast Desktop Database. To create a Podcast database, just create a new database and select the new Podcast database template. If you have a favorite podcast player, you can export your current subscriptions and import them to Zoot.
· Added a Shop database template for keeping track of shopping receipts and such.
· On start up Zoot will now display a Restore Session dialog. This might take time for Zooters to appreciate, but very useful.
· When you run Zoot on a new day, if Zoot detects you are not at your computer after your databases open, the program will run daily refreshes on all open databases to save a bit of time when you return. Similarly, if you open 2 or more databases using the Ctrl+Alt+O dialog, Zoot will run the daily refresh on those databases if you've stepped away from your computer. This time saver will be most noticeable on BIG databases like the Mail, Feeds, Podcasts, Reddit and Twitter databases. See also: Restore Session
· Quite a bit of work on improving the touch screen experience for those of you rocking a touch screen or 2 in 1 laptop.
· Wikipedia articles sent to a Kindle via the Cloud Zooter are cleaner now for improved readability. * Ctrl+Alt+C
· The Cloud Zooter has been tweaked to produce better output when zooting Web Pages, Tweets, Reddit Posts or any content you've highlighted in Zoot or any other Windows application. * Ctrl+Alt+C
· The Scrap Book has been updated to produce scraps with a more lovely and consistent presentation. * Ctrl+Shift+S
· The % Complete field will not track progress through long documents. You can override this behavior and set a different value by setting the field value manually or via a folder action.
· You can restrict a Quick Query file search to a specific file type. Just add the file extension to the beginning or end of your search criteria. For example: cat mouse .pdf will search for PDF files that contain both cat and mouse. Putting the file extension up front works too: .pdf cat mouse
· Added a toolbar button to send the contents of the Scrap Book to the cloud via the Cloud Zooter. * Ctrl+Alt+C
· Added the voice command Snap Assist to bring up the new Windows 11 pop-up Snap Dialog. * WinKey+Z
· Added a Reader Width setting to the Browser tab in the Settings dialog, which lets you specify the width you prefer for reader-friendly content.
· Added Dark, Lite and Mono themed icons. Theme Dialog
· Added ability to show | hide the menu bar in Zoot's main window and in detached Folder and Item windows. * Ctrl+[
· Added ability to show | hide both the tool bars and menu bar to quickly free up the maximum vertical workspace. * Ctrl+]
· Added support for the Brave and Vivaldi web browsers.
· New adaptive scheduling for podcasts and feeds will make fetch times quicker.
There may be a couple more small items I've added since, but this is most of it.
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