VoodooPad Lite 4.0


VoodooPad Lite is the stripped-down free version of VoodooPad. VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It’s like having your own digital junk drawer, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists… Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web just for you! Anybody familiar with WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad.
Type in your notes, and highlight important words or phrases to create new pages; or drag and drop folders, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad – they’re linked up whenever the word representing it isfound.
What’s new:
Version 4.0:
Big New Features:
- New toolbar icons! In fact, a pretty updated look overall.
- New palette windows, modeled after Acorn’s single palette which was a pretty big hit. However, unlike Acorn’s palette you can have multiple instances of these unified palettes. In fact, using the new plugin api, you can create your own palettes in Objective-C or Python. Check out the sample “Flyblog” included in the plugin SDK download.
- http://flyingmeat.com/wikka/VoodooPadWebDAVSyncingSetupPage syncing via WebDAV! This is a biggie. You can now sync the pages of a VoodooPad document between two computers using a WebDAV server such as MobileMe’s. If you want to setup your own WebDAV server as well, that will also work. Since syncing can be a little complicated, we’ve got some instructions on the wiki for setting it up:
- When syncing with a WebDAV server you can also have VoodooPad publish an up to date website for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
- “The Bucket”, which is a floating window accessible from any application via a hotkey, to add text to a VoodooPad Page.
- “Print Document” under the file menu, which you can also use to make a PDF document containing all the pages in your document.
- You can now write plugins in Python, just like you could with Lua.
- More with the speedy. VoodooPad’s wiki markup engine has gone through some major changes so it is faster and uses less memory.
- A new “Type” palette to replace the text styles palette. It’s pretty handy, and the source is even included in the plugin examples for you programmer types.
Smaller New Features:
- New preference to keep the current line indentation when pressing return.
- Images now scale down when they are too big to fit in a page.
- New python plugin, “Select Next <# #> Placeholder”, thanks to Michael McCracken! This is pretty handy when used with the NewPageTemplate (http://flyingmeat.com/wikka/VoodooPadPageTemplate).
- New pref to turn off colorization of links.
- New menu item “Gather Palettes” under the Window menu, to tidy up the palette windows.
- Now supports inline displaying of Acornimages. You can even double click on them to edit them (preserving layers) in Acorn.
- Embedded images are now editable in Acorn.
- New toolbar item to toggle wether links are shown or not.
- New pref to not resize the window when entering full screen.
- Python script plugins can now be put in the Plugins directory, as well as the Script Plugins directory.
- Dock menu to open up recent documents.
- In app bug reporting window.
- Holding down the option key when choosing using “Run Page as Script” inserts the output from the script into the current text area.
- iPhone web export template- optimized web export for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
- “Triggers” have been renamed to “Events”, since that makes a bit more sense.
- You can now write Events (formerly “Triggers”) in Python.
- Plugin API to add your pet scripting language to Events system.
Other minor things:
- Fixed a bug in the audio recorder, where it would not properly remove old recordings from the file system before importing new ones.
- Fix: You can no longer use “Link selection to item‚Ķ” when the current page is set to not show links.
- Chg: Holding down the option key when choosing pages from the toolbar will open up the pages list in the drawer.
- Fix: You can no longer assign custom url links to an image. This caused all images to try and link up, which wasn’t usually the desired behavior.
- Chg: You can now have “rich” links on images.
- Fix: VoodooPad is a bit more friendly towards Swedish characters, when dropped in for file aliases from the Finder.
- Fix: Page backgrounds are now saved for encrypted pages.
- Change: The services function now prefers rich text over plain text.
- New: Categories/Tags are now included in the search index.
- Fix: You can no longer open up files that are located in the trash.
- Fix: Fixed a bug where certain cjk characters would not link.
- Change: Removed the “default font” pref, now just using whatever is in the “new page text” preference. For plain text pages, the first font in the “new page text” preference is used.
- Fix: Fixed a bug with the automator web export action, where you could not set “rtfd to html” as a conversion format.
- Fix: Fixed a bug where links to aliases were not marked up correctly in webexport, when using markdown or textile.
- Change: Registration panel has now been moved to the preferences window.


