Mail of the month - July - Defaults and a checklist
Fakebook Pro is importing any PDFs I try to view on my phone e.g. if I try to view a PDF attached to an email. How do I stop that?This is actually an Android setting, and not controlled by each app: when clicking a PDF file your device has a default for opening it. In this case with the Fakebook Pro app, probably because you choose that default at some point (there is a dialog asking if you want to use the app "once" or "always").
In any case, you should be able to reset this default in the Android Settings app. Open that and look for the "Apps" section, in that section look for Fakebook Pro and click it. There should then be a "Open by default" subsection, in which you can clear any defaults or selectively set whether to open, not open or ask for an app every time. On some devices (e.g. Samsung), this may look slightly different, but the general idea is the same.
On my Samsung G7 Edge there is a "Clear Defaults" button for the app, but that doesn't work work on its own. You have to also set "Go to supported URLs" to "Always ask". I did both Clear Defaults and the Always ask setting, problem is solved!
How do I get rid of unwanted playlists?
I was looking for an app that could handle music PDF for gigs. It would have to move between Set List PDF quickly and ideally also be able to finger-pinch zoom (although I believe that feature makes the loading slower)My ideal list:* A dedicated music PDF app and nothing else
* The ability to load PDF into a master library from various sources - Dropbox, Google Drive, Livedrive, Local drive
* The list automatically indexed
* A simple way to create Set Lists from the master library without using copies
* Some meta information for the Set List tunes - eg Key, Genre, Free form notes
* Moving between Set List or Master Index PDF should be very quick
* The ability to pinch zoom PDFs useful on smaller tablets
* All the features on Set Lists like adding/deleting/reordering
* The ability to annotate PDFs with various tools and save the annotations
* A backup facility to Dropbox etc
* The ability to use JPEG, TIF formats as well
* A printing ability
* Move between pages using Airturn bluetooth pedal
* A price point of £4.99 would be acceptable
A dedicated music PDF app and nothing else: Well, obviously no. The transposable chord charts are a important addition and something that makes Fakebook Pro different from the other similar apps. I really like to be able to have set lists with mixed PDFs and chord charts, without having to switch between different apps. But that's me, and my gigs.
The ability to annotate PDFs with various tools and save the annotations: Yes.