Dear beloved Atlantis,
you faithfully and wonderfully serve the three departments of my life that use documents.
That is my Business, my Academic Research, and Personal matters.
Obviously I can have three separate folders of Favorite links for these, which is helpful.
In use, I need quite a high number of documents to be active in each of my Departments.
So as I open different documents through the days, I get a very long row of icons along the bottom of open documents.
I have to manually move them about to keep the Departments together.
It's important that there is no overlap. Working in each of these three areas, the other two are irrelevant, but I also need to switch back instantly to pick up work in one of the others.
I would really like to be able to have something like a desktop Views facility? so in each work Department I only see open icons in that area. Plus I can toggle into either of the others.
Ideally each would browse only its own hierarchy of folders - I do get sick of trudging through my folder system to go up then down again.
--- I looked at Projects, but opening Project replaces anything else I have open (If I understand right?)
--- I have tried using three separate instances of Atlantis open, but that is heavy on memory. Also it is not obvious which Atlantis icon is which.
Any ideas?
Managing departments of work
Hi Shan,
Here is how I would go about this.
1. Create an Atlantis Document Project for each of your 3 departments, each with a specific name (Business, Academic, Personal). Don’t forget to close each Document Project before you create a new one.
2. Open each of these Document Projects in turns, and add each of them to your Atlantis Favorites. In this way, you’ll be able to open these multiple document Projects as you open single Favorite Documents.
3. Close Atlantis.
4. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
5. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Business”.
6. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
7. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Academic”.
8. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
9. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Personal”.
In this way, you’ll have 3 running instances of Atlantis, each in its own Virtual Desktop, and each with its specific Document Project. Use Winkey+Tab to navigate from one Virtual Desktop to the next.
If you are running a Windows system which has no support for Virtual Desktops, you could try installing “VirtuaWin”. Here is from the home page:
Cheers,
Robert
Here is how I would go about this.
1. Create an Atlantis Document Project for each of your 3 departments, each with a specific name (Business, Academic, Personal). Don’t forget to close each Document Project before you create a new one.
2. Open each of these Document Projects in turns, and add each of them to your Atlantis Favorites. In this way, you’ll be able to open these multiple document Projects as you open single Favorite Documents.
3. Close Atlantis.
4. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
5. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Business”.
6. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
7. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Academic”.
8. Press Winkey+Tab and create a new Windows Virtual Desktop.
9. Open Atlantis and the Document Project named “Personal”.
In this way, you’ll have 3 running instances of Atlantis, each in its own Virtual Desktop, and each with its specific Document Project. Use Winkey+Tab to navigate from one Virtual Desktop to the next.
If you are running a Windows system which has no support for Virtual Desktops, you could try installing “VirtuaWin”. Here is from the home page:
HTH.VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.
VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.
Cheers,
Robert