What's new in Biblioscape 7

Biblioscape 7 is the most important upgrade since the version 4 release. All modules are now organized under a single folder tree. A new categories module has been introduced to better organize items. User can now open multiple records at the same time. Cross module search has been added and search words are highlighted in the results display.

General:

The application has 3 panes: folder, records list, and tabs pane. The tabs pane is new and it is mainly used for querying the records. Both folders pane and the tabs pane can be hidden or minimized.
You can now manually change the ordering of records in a tree structure. This applies to the folders, notes, tasks, charts, and categories modules.
Cross module search is now possible. You can enter a search string to search against all the records from references, notes, tasks, charts, categories modules and the links.
Highlighted search is supported for full text search (not advanced search). All the search words are highlighted in different colors in the hits record preview.
Individual records are now displayed in a separate window, so you can have both the records list and individual records displayed side by side. Or you can switch between them easily.
Any record from any module can be linked to any other record from any module.
All the records from different modules can be flagged in 8 colors.
The color categories feature is added to all modules.

Folders:

The meaning of folders has changed. There are two types of folders: physical folders and virtual folders. Virtual folders include link folders and search folders. The relationship between a physical folder and the records under it has become one to many. A record can only be under one physical folder. The many to many relationship between folders and records in earlier releases are now handled by link folders.
In earlier releases, only references were organized by folders. Now all the records from references, notes, tasks, charts, and categories modules are organized by folders, very much as Outlook folders work.
You can now convert any search to a search folder. The search folder can be organized in the same way as a regular folder in the folder tree. A search folder can only retrieve records from the same module.

References:

Notes are displayed in the reference record window. The user can now add or edit notes without leaving the reference window.
Linked records are displayed in the preview pane.
The folder field can be used as the subject header in a subject bibliography.
Bug fixes in reference format and import engines.

Notes:

Notes records are now organized by folders. The user can manually re-order each note in a notes tree.
References are displayed in the note record window. The user can search, link, and cite references without leaving the note record window.
An organization chart view is added to display the notes list.
The note editor formatting features are improved.

Tasks:

Tasks records are converted from a table structure to a tree structure, allowing you to have sub-tasks.
The task orders can be manually changed.

Charts:

You can now easily link folders, references, notes, tasks, charts, and categories records to individual chart objects. So a chart can be used to model your data.