Hi!

I have an idea/suggestion about Diamond. What about a “Documents” menu? A menu similar to the “Window” menu that you have in the Finder. This would make it easier to navigate through the windows opened in Diamond, especially if you have heaps of docs. Geoffrey, does that sound anathema to your ears? I know nothing about Objective-C, maybe it's one of those things that would take months to implement (?). Please tell me what you think.

D'oh! Of course there is. Now I really feel dumb.

Actually, what about a slightly more substantial (but still lightweight) standalone Window Menu? I was playing with Pads X recently and like that it permits me to organize and edit all my tear-off "Stickies" from one location, should I so choose. Something like that in Diamond would be killer. For instance, if I've got, say, 40 Diamond docs on my desktop (reduced to their title-bars, so I can view them all simultaneously), I could edit any one of them from the same "Organizer Window." Or I could lump a bunch of them into a single category (say, "Chapter 3") and recolor them all, say, blue, so I know they all relate to each other.

I'm only just getting to know Diamond but I like it a lot. I write books, so I deal with many many text documents simultaneously and keep looking for the best way to juggle them. I use Scrivener, but I yearn for a more free-form corkboard, which Diamond basically offers. I like mindmaps, but all those connector lines drive me nuts; Tinderbox is infuriating, expensive, and ugly. I actually love the Stickies app: it lets me think and work directly on my desktop, I can create book and chapter outlines across Spaces (which Stickies remembers when I close and reopen the app), and I can name and re-color my Stickies with just a right-click. (I do wish Diamond offered the latter luxury.) But it's not quite robust enough as text-editor or file manager for me to input large amounts of my writing into it. Diamond is close to offering the best features of all these apps ... and it's elegant and unbloated. Thanks for the hard work ...

A related query/request: If I create and arrange a bunch of Diamond documents, is there a way for Diamond to remember that configuration, so that if I quit and restart Diamond, that arrangement of documents reappears? (Stickies does this.) I tried clicking the "Reopen Last Open Documents" in Preferences, thinking that might do it, but it seems not to ...

Thanks, Geoffrey. I see that Diamond will open an individual file/note in the same location/size as it was last opened. But if I've got a whole array of files/notes up, is there a way for Diamond to call up the entire array again if I quit the program and restart it? (Again, Stickies is quite handy this way; I've got my entire book outline laid out in Stickies on a dedicated Space, so I can call it up as I need it, move stuff around, and not worry I'll lose the configuration if my computer suddenly crashes. A now-defunct program called Stick 'Em Up had an even handier feature: I could divide my Stickies into categories and call up the categories onscreen as I needed.)

Also, I notice that if I change a file's color to, say, yellow, and then minimize the file to just a strip, the strip is default gray. Is there a way to tweak it so the mini-file is the same color as the maxi-file?

I look forward to Emerald; Sapphire requires too much fiddling to get it to be what I want, which is a one-stop text editor and organizer. Not that you want that either, necessarily ... :-)

I'm afraid I must be missing something. By "window" you mean an individual file or sticky-like note, yes? So by default each window/file would have to have a separate name (if by "window name" you mean "filename") -- yes? Yet when I select the "Set by Window Name" command for each, then quit and restart Diamond, I still have to hit File>Open>[filename] for that file to reappear -- which it does in the correct place, it's true, but if I've got, say, 20 windows open at the time I quit and restart, I have to reopen 20 windows manually, which is kind of a pain. Or have a missed some meta-ability that somehow saves a bunch of windows as a group (which maybe I give a name to), sorta like an invisible corkboard, and I can call up this corkboard and all its windows in one shot when I restart Diamond?

Sorry for my density ...

Hmmm, definitely not working for me. I create a bunch of note/files, save them with unique names, and leave them open (some minimized, some not) when I quit Diamond. When I restart Diamond none reappear, only a new, untitled note. The following Preferences are checked: "Reopen Last Open Documents" and "Mark Unsaved Window" (whatever that does). I feel I'm missing something obvious ...