Even before I worked for the company, I appreciated the Accordance developers’ practice of adding features to the program in the way of free updates. While most software companies require payment for new features, Accordance gets better with each incremental update, most of which are absolutely free! This is certainly true ofupdates to Accordance 12 since its release in November.
Paper and Stacks were two of the big new features in v. 12, and they continue to get attention through updates and new functionality. Look, for example, at all the recent improvements to the Paper feature in Accordance:
- Non-hierarchical “text item” has been added for simple text purposes.
- Option-dragging a Paper item now duplicates it.
- Drag and drop of Paper items now have more destination choices.
- Paper item justification now applies to all parts of an item.
- Arrow keys now change the selected Paper item and can move its hierarchy.
- Shift-Enter now makes a sub-item below the selected item
New features were added to Stacks in December.
In January, a new “Copy as Instant Details” feature was added, which is easier than holding the shift key to freeze Instant Details long enough to click on the copy button in the Instant Details window. In yesterday’s release, a preference was added so that tool panes would not be recycled when opened from the Info Pane (this was something I had requested).
As you can see, Accordance continues to improve, even in interim updates. Make certain you keep your Preferences set to automatically check for updates. Mine is set to “Daily,” but there are other options, too. If you have Accordance 12.0 through 12.0.3 and haven’t done so already, you can get Accordance 12.0.4 for free by running “Check for App Update” on the Accordance menu on the Mac or the Utilities menu in Windows.
To see everything new since November, see our “New Features Since 12.0” page.