I'd love to be able to use Infoqube in my new job but the lockdown level is severe.  I've put in several "new software requests" but they're stuck at the "manager approval" level.  So the only thing I can use for outlining right now is Microsoft Word, and it's horrible as an outliner.

Just saw this article about MarkItDown, a utility that converts other file formats to Markdown. I'm wondering if it might be useful for converting documents that have an outline-type structure, but are in formats that IQ doesn't know how to import into the grid. If MarkItDown can convert those documents into good Markdown, perhaps IQ at some point will be able to import them from Markdown into a grid outline with the original outline structure preserved. 

Just recently I wonderd why I wasn't able to see some of my databases. Now I see the load option defaults to something called InfoCube Pro Database IQPD instead of the normal SNDB. 

Did I miss this introduction and what is it and how is it different from SNDB.

Thanks. 

I was curious whether the presence of a hash tag in Item field text or Doc Pane text would be sufficient to set a tag in IQ.  For example, if I simply typed in "#tag" in the Item field or the Doc Pane.  It seems it does not.  Rather, from what I can tell, the only way to set a tag by typing in the Item field or Doc pane is to type "##" to activate the Tag Dialog and enter the tags through the dialog.  I also wondered whether a tag would be set if I opened a document (already containing hash tags e.g. "#tag") in the Doc Pane.  As I expected this did not happen.

Hi Pierre, I've been very comfortable with version v120Pre5 build 2022-04-13, it's 100% stable, absolutely no issues - but I'm thinking its time to upgrade to the most current version.   My 2 questions are - 1) have there been so many changes to IQ in the interim that I won't recognize the interface so will have challenges navigating within the program?   2) Will my customized grid formatting and other layout customizations be retained?   thanks, Doug B

I vaguely remembered that the Doc Pane had at least some "outlining" capabilities, so I searched and found this thread:

https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/comment/25741

From this thread, and from experimenting in the Doc Pane,

(1) clicking on a heading toggles between an expanded and a collapsed state (I think I had that working).  Also I can right-click a heading and then click Expand/Collapse.

I am late to the AI Chatbot party but it could be a lot worse since ChatGPT only came out in 2022.  I've been using AI Chatbots a lot lately.  I started out with Copilot but lately I have been using Gemini more and mor.  Copilot seems to be focus on being very concise whereas Gemini gives a bit more detail in its first answer.  I've also tried ChatGPT, and there are quite a few others (Claude, Perplexity etc) that I have not even tried yet.

UPDATE: Apparent erroneous sorting of subitems is fixed by a grid refresh, see below for details

From https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/node/987: 

# 2.2.1   - Backups created on program close (# 2.2.1) use rotating numbers .SNBK0, .SNBK1 and .SNBK2 e.g TestFile.SNBK1 (where .SNBK0 is the current backup, .SNDB1 is 1 day old and .SNDB2 is 2 days old). This is NOT enabled by default.

This has been a long term problem for me - an updated version of a database is in my desktop sync folder (on OneDrive), definitely containing data changes made on my laptop, but IQ running on my Desktop won't recognize that the sync folder file contains data changes, and won't prompt me to replace the desktop version with the sync folder version.   I've tried the usual tricks on my laptop - I've tried adding an item on my laptop, bolding text in an item, etc.