Advanced Diary?

[Frank Delamarre]

Need simple and free private digital diary for daily records? Advanced
Diary is a perfect choice. First, it supports multiple diaries and
multiple entries for a single day. This is a unique feature. Second,
Advanced Diary is clearly structured and easily searched. Interlinking
one entry to another is possible as well. Third, there are two
available modes - Calendar (show by date) and Document Tree (show by
file). The Calendar mode shows a calendar. A user can access diary
entries by simply jumping to a certain date. The Document Tree mode
displays a so-called "file tree" so a person can open a desired file
immediately. Since both modes have their advantages and disadvantages,
it's smart to switch between them, depending on situation.

http://www.csoftlab.com/advantages_Diary.html

Features list and screenshots look quite good. Has anyone tried it?

Frank

 

[The Six Million Dollar Man]

Need simple and free private digital diary for daily records? Advanced
Diary is a perfect choice. First, it supports multiple diaries and
multiple entries for a single day. This is a unique feature. Second,
Advanced Diary is clearly structured and easily searched. Interlinking
one entry to another is possible as well. Third, there are two
available modes - Calendar (show by date) and Document Tree (show by
file). The Calendar mode shows a calendar. A user can access diary
entries by simply jumping to a certain date. The Document Tree mode
displays a so-called "file tree" so a person can open a desired file
immediately. Since both modes have their advantages and disadvantages,
it's smart to switch between them, depending on situation.

I took a look at it yesterday. I was disappointed to find that some minor
features of the program required that you install some of the developer's
payware. The program is similar to KeyNote
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html , but not as fully featured. In
the end I decided to stick with KeyNote and uninstalled Advanced Diary.

HTH

 

[Ron May]

Need simple and free private digital diary for daily records? Advanced
Diary is a perfect choice. First, it supports multiple diaries and
multiple entries for a single day. This is a unique feature. Second,
Advanced Diary is clearly structured and easily searched. Interlinking
one entry to another is possible as well. Third, there are two
available modes - Calendar (show by date) and Document Tree (show by
file). The Calendar mode shows a calendar. A user can access diary
entries by simply jumping to a certain date. The Document Tree mode
displays a so-called "file tree" so a person can open a desired file
immediately. Since both modes have their advantages and disadvantages,
it's smart to switch between them, depending on situation.

http://www.csoftlab.com/advantages_Diary.html

Features list and screenshots look quite good. Has anyone tried it?

Frank

Looked at it and played with it. Without password protection, I don't
see how it can be called a "private digital diary" or be very useful
as a journal. It's not bad as a very basic PIM or day planner, or
organizing a series of notes chronologically by date.

Ron M.

 

[Frank Delamarre]

I took a look at it yesterday. I was disappointed to find that some minor
features of the program required that you install some of the developer's
payware. The program is similar to KeyNote
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html , but not as fully featured. In
the end I decided to stick with KeyNote and uninstalled Advanced Diary.

Keynote is a fine piece of software, but you can't make tables and
(bulleted, numbered) lists in it afaik.

Frank

 

[omega]

Keynote is a fine piece of software, but you can't make tables and
(bulleted, numbered) lists in it afaik.

In the way I interpret the couple posts feedback: Advanced Diary is tainted
with demo/crippleware aspects in its interface (menu items you click which
tell your to make a purchase)? If my interpretation is not off-mark, there
is no question that I'd choose iDailyDairy.

http://www.splinterware.com/products/idailydiary.htm

It does well in the RTF department (including links, pictures, and
formatting such as bullets). Also seems to do surprisingly well in the
HTML export department. As to tables, none. And as to the tree pane,
no; but it does feature a tabbed document style. Mainly, importantly,
all menu commmands are functional, even while it is a liteware.

 

[Guest]

Keynote is a fine piece of software, but you can't make tables and
(bulleted, numbered) lists in it afaik.

You can make tables. . . sort of. If you create the table in another app
such as Word, you can paste it into Keynote. However, you can't edit the
table structure (i.e. modify the column widths, add columns or rows unless
using tab, etc). You can add data using tab to move from one cell to the
next. Using tab will also add rows and columns. Also, gets ugly when you
start to do operations such as delete multiple rows.

Alternately, you can paste the table into a keynote as an OLE. When you
click on it to edit the contents, up will pop the controls for the original
app that created the table. Tables in this format cannot be searched under
Keynote's search functions.

M