Michael Bywater
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Late to this party but I want to add my voice here. I hadn't realised two of the things I use most frequently aren't yet restored in 6.1.3. They're both pretty crucial and while I'll put in a request directly to MB, I want to put it up here to see if it suits, or arouses wrath in, any other users.
(1) Scenario: poodling around notes looking for Emergent Structure - Tb's unique skill. I remember seeing a note n notes ago which should be linked to the one I'm looking at right now. But what was it? If I can have a Go Back In History/Go Forward In History keystroke it would be so easy. And the History (on whose information this would rely) should ideally have its own View as well ("I know it was around *then*, the nearest we can get to the old codex trick of "I know it was around *there*").
(2) The old [ and ] for following links back/forward is also useful. A different purpose -- re-orienting yourself -- but equally good for rapid work. Raising Roadmap or Browse Links windows is too cumbersome for rapid connection-spotting, I find.
Left to my own devices, I'd have cmd-[ and cmd-] for going back and forward in History (a de facto standard command) and something else for travelling back and forward along links. Others may disagree.
But both of these are crucial to the way I use Tbx. Without them, I can easily get lost while browsing my stuff looking for connections; moreover, the old routine of --spot a note --park a link --find the one I saw a few minutes ago, about which the only thing I remember is that I saw it a few minutes ago --go there with a few keystrokes if it was close, or via the History view if it was over the other side of the file's solar system, --make the link
...just doesn't work. It reduces the scope for "Aha!" moments, which is, for me, one of Tb's great & unique strengths.
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