What's new in Personal Historian 2.0.1.1
Dec 29, 2011
- New Story Editor:
- Multiple font support
- Paragraph styles
- Text wrap around pictures
- Footnotes
- Full screen edit mode
- Text-to-speech (reads story to you)
- Speech-to-text (takes dictation)
- New Story Options:
- Assign a story to more than one category
- Tag the story with the people mentioned in it
- Tag the story with places it refers to
- Assign a rating (zero to 5 stars) to each story
- Sort date lets you sort stories even if you only have a partial date (like just the year)
- Timer shows how long you have been working on the current story (in this session)
- New Publisher:
- Create multiple custom books for a person
- Easily organize your stories into chapters
- Rearrange the order of chapters
- Add cover page, title page, table of contents and more
- Generate an index for your book
- Modify layout for each book (page size, margins, header, footer, etc)
- Print your books or save them as PDF or Rich Text
- Email books directly from the Publisher
- New Person List:
- Keep track of people involved in each story
- Find or hide stories based on the people they are tagged with
- New Place List:
- Keep track of places mentioned in each story
- Find or hide stories by the places they are tagged with
- Find or hide stories based on the distance from a place
- Geocode places using the included worldwide place database (3.5 million places)
- New Main Screen Features:
- Sidebar to quickly filter by status or category
- Preview story settings for the highlighted story
- Timeline bar view
- Shows if a story has more than one category, person or place tagged to it
- Full text search
- New Filter Options:
- Filter by people mentioned in the story
- Filter by places mentioned in the story
- Filter by distance from a place
- Filter by Rating (zero to 5 stars)
- The new Gazetteer will show matches for a full or partial place name entered and show you all matches, with an online map to any of the matching places
- Full text search lets you quickly find all stories containing the text you enter, not containing the text you enter, or any other combination
- Unicode support means that Personal Historian isn’t limited to just “western European” languages anymore, and can now handle Polish, Cyrillic, Kanji, and most any other language you can throw at it. This lets you enter the names, places, or stories about a person in their native language, or keep a transcription of an old document in its original language
- Automatic notification of program updates