M
Michael Laplante
This program has been mentioned here before, but it was recently updated.
Advanced Diary from CSoftLab at:
http://www.csoftlab.com/
I've been playing around with it for a few days and am impressed.
Like both these programs, it uses an Explorer-like hierarchy to organize
notes. What's unique though is you can switch back and forth between
calendar view and normal notes view. In calendar view, only those notes
entered on a particular date appear under their respective sections. In
normal view, all notes appear.
Like Keynote, you can work with RFT text formatting. Unlike Keynote, you can
add tables to your notes.
What usually kills these things for me is the search facilities, which
typically will only search the current note. Like Keynote, this will
identify all nodes that contain your search terms allowing you to jump
immediately to the one that looks most likely. (Unfortunately, no options
for AND / OR searches like Keynote.)
Like both TP and Keynote, you can insert hyperlinks to external files,
sites, etc as well as link to other nodes in the database. Although it only
works with one database, you use the backup and restore facility to create
multiple databases.
Nice export facilities too. Exports to text or RTF as well as HTML though
you have to use the print option(!) to export to HTML.
2nd program:
Net Picker from www.netpicker.net.
This one is more useful for archival purposes. It's designed to store
information copied from your browser. Works best with IE but I've been using
with Firefox. Information from IE
Each "article" is stored as an individual HTML file in its Collection
folder. The program essentially acts as a "wrapper" allowing you to organize
the various articles in folders a la Keynote or Treepad.
You can edit the articles as the program itself has some limited editing
capabilities. The program can even be used as a standalone editor in either
text or wysiwyg mode for simple tasks. (It does everything I want except add
tables. Tables can only be done in text mode.) It can produce an index html
file making it possible to use it to design relatively simple websites.
It has a nice search feature. Search for a word and it will search through
all articles and produce a list of all articles containing that word. Click
on the article name and it will jump immediately to that article with all
instances of the search word highlighted.
It is freeware, though there are references to paying for it. I guess it was
shareware at some point and the developers haven't gotten around to updating
all the documentation.
Cheers all,
M
Advanced Diary from CSoftLab at:
http://www.csoftlab.com/
I've been playing around with it for a few days and am impressed.
Like both these programs, it uses an Explorer-like hierarchy to organize
notes. What's unique though is you can switch back and forth between
calendar view and normal notes view. In calendar view, only those notes
entered on a particular date appear under their respective sections. In
normal view, all notes appear.
Like Keynote, you can work with RFT text formatting. Unlike Keynote, you can
add tables to your notes.
What usually kills these things for me is the search facilities, which
typically will only search the current note. Like Keynote, this will
identify all nodes that contain your search terms allowing you to jump
immediately to the one that looks most likely. (Unfortunately, no options
for AND / OR searches like Keynote.)
Like both TP and Keynote, you can insert hyperlinks to external files,
sites, etc as well as link to other nodes in the database. Although it only
works with one database, you use the backup and restore facility to create
multiple databases.
Nice export facilities too. Exports to text or RTF as well as HTML though
you have to use the print option(!) to export to HTML.
2nd program:
Net Picker from www.netpicker.net.
This one is more useful for archival purposes. It's designed to store
information copied from your browser. Works best with IE but I've been using
with Firefox. Information from IE
Each "article" is stored as an individual HTML file in its Collection
folder. The program essentially acts as a "wrapper" allowing you to organize
the various articles in folders a la Keynote or Treepad.
You can edit the articles as the program itself has some limited editing
capabilities. The program can even be used as a standalone editor in either
text or wysiwyg mode for simple tasks. (It does everything I want except add
tables. Tables can only be done in text mode.) It can produce an index html
file making it possible to use it to design relatively simple websites.
It has a nice search feature. Search for a word and it will search through
all articles and produce a list of all articles containing that word. Click
on the article name and it will jump immediately to that article with all
instances of the search word highlighted.
It is freeware, though there are references to paying for it. I guess it was
shareware at some point and the developers haven't gotten around to updating
all the documentation.
Cheers all,
M