Some outliners and the features Unicode, search in the tree, website publishing

Posted by Tester
Nov 26, 2013 at 11:43 PM

Hello Achim,

thanks a lot for pointing this out.

You are right: By using the export option “Make a Browser-based ebook” you can easily create a website with a navigation tree!
(In my first test I only tried the option “Export to files” (choosing html as file type) and this option did not give me the navigation tree.)

In general the appearance and the work with “My Notes Keeper” seems to be quite pleasant (as far as I can judge from the short second test I made just now). The program does not differ very much from MyInfo I would say. Even the result as website is quite similar, including the smaller line spacing. But gradually I begin to feel accustomed to it. ;-)

But there is once more (as in so many other programs) a problem with Unicode: In the navigation tree of the website non-latin characters are not depicted correctly (or better: they are completely unreadable)! Everywhere else (in the text on the website, in the editor and also in the tree of the program) they are shown correctly. Obiviously Unicode is a great challenge. ;-) Anyway I think that this issue could be resolved when reporting it to the developers. But currently in this respect (= the full support of Unicode) MyInfo is obviously one of the very few outliners that work completely flawlessly.

Concerning the search function, “My Notes Keeper” is not ideal (for my needs) but I would say that it is more comfortable than MyInfo is (at the moment). For example with “My Notes Keeper” you can quite simply configurate if you want to search only within the titles (of the items), if you want to search for whole words only etc. For this purpose you must have activated the “Task Pane” (which is located at the right edge of the editor).

A big advantage of “My Notes Keeper” is his low price: For only 29,95 Dollars it seems to offer more or less the same functionality (including website export) that you will get with “MyInfo” only by using the Professional version whichs costs more than three times the amount!

Of course I do not know how good “My Notes Keeper” is in handling bigger databases (I tried it out only with 6-7 items). But if this worked also fine (and in case that the issue with Unicode is resolved) I think that it could be an attractive alternative to MyInfo (at least until in MyInfo will be implemented the refined search function).