Kudos

What is Kudos? Kudos is an easy to use productivity app that enhances your experience with electronic information. It’s perfect for anyone who collects information from multiple sources and doesn’t want to lose track of the original location. For example, you might be researching a topic and find some useful information on a website. You decide you want to make a record of this text, but you also want to be able to give credit where credit is due. Kudos allows you to bind the useful text with an active link back to the source document. Kudos allows you to format both the useful text and the reference and then share the collected information via Mail or Messages or save it to a file. The reference included by Kudos is just enough information to allow you to return to the source, so you can construct a more complete formatted citation later if you wish. Who would benefit from using Kudos? Journalists, researchers, writers, teachers, students, or anyone who wants to compile information and keep a record of where they got it from. Kudos has been designed for non-academics or people just starting their research project. How do you use Kudos? 4 simple steps: 1. HIGHLIGHT some text in an original document 2. TRIGGER Kudos 3. FORMAT 4. SHARE or SAVE Which electronic document sources can you use with Kudos? Apple: Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Preview, Safari, TextEdit, and Xcode Microsoft: Outlook and Word Google: Chrome Other: Airmail 3, Coda, Evernote, PDFpenPro, and Text Wrangler How do you trigger Kudos? Kudos is designed to act directly on selected text without the need to launch or switch applications. To trigger Kudos simply select the text you are interested in and then either: 1. Use a keyboard shortcut; the default is set to: Shift-Command-7 OR 2. Use a secondary or right click OR 3. Drag the text selection to the Kudos icon in the Dock OR 4. Drag the text selection onto the Kudos window What are the formatting options in Kudos? adjust the font & size for both text selection and reference include up to 8 elements in the reference place the reference above or below the selected text highlight with a regex capable search widget Which apps can you share with? Share text information with Mail, Messages, Reminders, Notes, or any other text-savvy Share application which is installed on your Mac (e.g. One Note) Share as an attached file with Mail, Messages, Notes, or any other file-savvy Share application which is installed on your Mac. What file formats does Kudos support? You can share or save to Text, RTF, PDF, and AIFF (audio -spoken text) You can also ‘Append’ Kudos information to existing .txt or .rtf files How does Kudos support Mojave’s Dark Mode? you can run in full in Dark Mode with these additional options: run Kudos in Light Mode even when system is in Dark Mode show the main window with a white background