I think @JMichaelTX is pointing in the right direction: There are many ways to quickly display some cheat sheets, and KM is not necessarily the best one.
Here a very simplistic approach:
1. Create your sheets with whatever app you prefer
2. Put them into a folder “Shortcuts”:
3. Drag the folder to the Dock:
Now you have a couple of ways to quickly display the content:
A. With the mouse:
Click the “Shortcuts” folder in the Dock
It will open up to a grid
Hover with the mouse over the desired sheet
Hit the spacebar to invoke QuickLook
B. With the keyboard
Navigate to the “Shortcuts” folder (or to a specific sheet) in LaunchBar
This will take not more than two keystrokes (e.g. “SC”)
Still in LB, hit the Spacebar on a sheet to invoke Quicklook
@Tom
Thanks very much Tom.
I don't think that the multi-file approach is the solution from my perspective.
I bought Nisus Pro and am extremely happy thanks to you. I am very grateful.****
I found the ideal (for me) solution: Nisus with column display (Window➡️ Palette➡️ columns) and RTF format, following your suggestions above.
If you don't mind I have a question on how to configure a macro with Nisus.
My german is intermediate to advanced. I read a rather difficult german newspaper article every day, decipher the difficult idioms and expressions, make notes in a word processor and walk around with the printout in my pocket all day.
I am now going to use Nisus as the word processor.
There are 2 situations:
1- I find a difficult word which I want to look up the in dictionary, in which case I highlight the word (double tap), right click, and choose lookup
2- the second situation is that I am dealing with a more difficult word not in the dictionary or a multi word expression in which case I have highlight multiple words, then right click, go to the services menu and choose Linguee
I was wondering if you could orient me as to the best approach to do the above quickly, because in any one text, I can do it more than 30 times.
thanks very much !
By macro I meant KBM. I should have been more clear in my question.
One last point: when I drag and drop a Nisus created document into Scrivener , I don't get the option (like I would with pdf, pages, etc) to open in an external editor with the icons below at the bottom.
Do you know if it's possible to change the default Scrivener RTF editor to Nisus or in some way tell Scrivener 'this is a Nisus RTF document, please edit in Nisus'?
Save your documents as “Nisus Compressed Rich Text”:
These files have the a “zrtf” extension. Basically they are just zipped RTF files, but with some other optimizations (for example identical images in the document don’t produce double image data, IIRC).
The zrtf extension should be associated with the Nisus app by default. I use this format for documents which shouldn’t be edited with another program (e.g. MS Word, since both programs have slightly different interpretations of the RTF format).
You can re-save it as “rtf” at any time and without any loss, in case you change your mind.
My suggestion above prevents Scrivener from displaying the file contents, which is – probably – not what you want.
I don’t see a way to save as rtf and get the document opened by an external editor from within Scrivener. You can drag the document icon to the Nisus app in the Dock; but then it will ask you for a save location, since the files are inside the scriv bundle.
Thanks very much for your research and comments.
In terms of workflow, I found that drag-drop Nisus RTF into a document (not into the dock or binder) creates a link. When clicked, the RTF opens in Nisus (now my default app for RTF).
It’s too bad in a way not to be able to see the RTF
I wonder if there would be a way to create a Scrivener document, with as title the filename, and content the link to the rtf file which opens in Nisus , and create a sub-document which would simply display the content of the RTF file by a completely different mechanism, perhaps some kind of rtf to pdf conversion routine
BTW, I’m not sure whether it is a good idea to edit Scrivener’s RTFs with an external editor. I guess Scrivener is using certain special formatting elements (or at least formatting conventions) for a proper display in its integrated RTF reader. You’ll have to try it out. As mentioned, I’m not very familiar with Scrivener.
Not sure if I understand correctly. But I noticed that I can simply drag any document into a scrivener document: it will build a clickable link and display the name of the linked document in the text.
Edit/PS:
Like here:
The linked file (“External Document”) is a RTF file and when I click it it opens externally (in Nisus)
yes,
a document contains the list to the RTF document which opens in Nisus: fine, done exactly as you say.
I would also like to view the file contents in Scrivener
I would create a sub document which would somehow display the content of the RTF file (not edit it). Something like you see if you spacebar on a filename in Finder****
You mean Quick Look. It seems in Scrivener the usual Quick Look shortcut (Spacebar) is mapped differently (it opens the doc in an extra editor window). Don’t know if there is any replacement. I’m sure you know Scrivener better than I do…
@Tom@JMichaelTX
Hello Tom. Thanks for your interest.
I carried out the tests you recommend and you are right. Same problem, so the issue is therefore with Evernote.
also interesting: when I copy paste from Nisus RTF in column format to the KBM text box, the column display is lost. It becomes one long document.
Nisus: By the way, I use lists a lot. Do you know how to (including shortcut) move items up and down Nisus lists? Looked everywhere and could only find R and L movement shortcuts . Even among the configurable shortcuts, choices are limited to R-L, which is very unusual in the word processor world.
I contacted Scrivener support: they say that there is no way to edit RTF with external editor in Scrivener .
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