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Posted by Ken Ashworth
Sep 5, 2006 at 08:56 PM
Here’s some FREE stuff that comes to mind…
File Amigo Lite - Free
http://www.fileamigo.com/Overview.htm
If you’re into databases - seems to pack a lot of punch. Can’t tell if Free version supports forms.
NoteKeeper - Free
http://www.tolon.co.uk/notekeeper/
Two-pane outliner.
TreeLine - Free
http://www.bellz.org/treeline/index.html
Two-pane outliner, xml forms. Author keeps plugging away at it, some very interesting work.
Literary Machine - LM2000- Free
http://sommestad.com/lm.htm
Takes some getting used to, I believe it supports a clipboard monitor - not sure if this support is in Free version. Haven’t played with this is a while.
Later,
Ken Ashworth
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 5, 2006 at 09:02 PM
Graham, it isn’t free, but I find that Clip Cache Plus does a great job of capturing everything that goes to clipboard.
http://www.xrayz.co.uk/clipcache/?page=default
Daly
Graham Smith wrote:
>I was speaking to someone the other day who collects snippets from a software support
>news group and pastes them into a word file so she can search for them later, including
>bits of prgramming code.
>
>Now I am aware of many “paid for” tools that would be better
>for this than word, but can anyone suggest a free program that she should try.
>Something with a clipboard feature would seem appropriate.
>
>My mind seems a complet
>blank on this at the moment.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Graham
Posted by Graham Smith
Sep 5, 2006 at 09:33 PM
Ken,
Thanks for these suggestions, some programs here I’ve never heard of.
I shall give them a more detailed look.
Graham
Posted by Graham Smith
Sep 5, 2006 at 09:36 PM
Daly,
Yes I thought of just a clipboard tool ( I have ClipCache) and may yet suggest this, or something similar.
Thanks,
Graham
Posted by Ken Ashworth
Sep 6, 2006 at 07:47 AM
Here’s a good one.
Web Idea Tree - $29.95 - Personal Edition
I had mentioned this program in a post to the old Outliners Forum shortly before it went down.
Although this program is primarly a Content Management System for website generation, it lends itself well to many of the tasks desired in an information manager, research and/or writing tool (presentation).
The interface is a typical two-pane display, project (website) tree on the left, tree node detail editor on the right. The right hand pane offers three view modes (tabs) - Editor (rtf ?), HTML Editor, Preview (Rendered).
Page layout and site structure are controled thru Cascading Style Sheets, managment of which is made very easy thru some slick dialogs.
Ten (10) Custom Fields can be defined for a project and display in the Rendered page for each tree node (Idea).
A separate Bibliographic database is available with (40) available fields. These can be saved and loaded, but only one biblio database can be attached to a project at a time - I guess if you had multiple biblio databases you could load one against a project structure - publish - then load another - publish….
Extensive import capabilities.
External database access thru ODBC.
The Editor (rtf ?) has very good table support.
Keyword indexing is automatic, separate biblio index, TOC and Index generation.
I found the program to be very stable. I was getting some program errors after the last update that seemed particular to my system, the author worked with me on resolving the issue - although we weren’t able to pin-point the problem the author did provide a working executable with a different library (compile). I was impresssed with the level of service.
The manual is very comprehensive, and a good example of a site generated by the program.
http://www.webideatree.com/mu-en/text/index.html
Clipboard Monitor function - Toggle - discussion of auto-paste behavior, depended on current view tab focus: as appended within an idea (tree node text) OR appended code to HTML Editor OR as new idea (tree node) in Preview tab.
http://www.webideatree.com/mu-en/text/auto-import.html
Granted it’s not the holy grail, but for the price…
(I’m just a user, no connection to program).
Later,
KenA