Plain Text

Posted by Cassius
Dec 29, 2006 at 07:12 AM

Derek Cornish wrote:
>Steve -
> >Absolutely right; I’d completely forgotten about Treepad, which I haven’t
>used for years. As you say, the file format is virtually all plain text with a
>sprinkling of non-ASCII stuff - rather like the old DOS PC-Write files, and perfect
>for indexed searching. I expect a lot of the other earlier generation of two-pane
>tree-type of editors also used plain text - like Skwyrul, Golden Section Notes, etc.
> =========
Derek & All:

You need to be aware that the files created by the latest versions of TreePad (and many other Pims) are highly compressed. One can search within a currently open file, but if one wishes to use a search program to search several files at once, one has to convert each to a .txt file first.

This is one reason I’m considering the purchase of InfoSelect. It doesn’t put all of one’s notes in a single file, but can search all of the files with one command.

-c