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Posted by ureadit
2004-05-29 20:51:44

AnyNotes’ Web Page is far better than the actual product.

This PIM’s main screen has four Windows. The screen looks pretty. On the left is a tree which consists of a hierarchy of folders. When one clicks on a folder, the title of the notes it contains appear in an upper window to the right of the tree. When one clicks on a note title, the text of the note appears in a window below the notes’ titles window.

It appears that the only way to rearrange the folders in the tree is to select a folder, cut it (CTRL-X) and then paste it where you want it to be. (Actually, this is probably no harder than dragging, and while limiting, is no more limiting than many other PIMs, including ones I use.)

AnyNotes appears to have almost full RTF. One cannot create subscripts or superscripts, but if one pasts text with these into AnyNotes, they appear in it. I believe it has all the other usual RTF capabilities. One can copy a graphic to the clipboard and then paste it into the bottom, note text window.

One can insert links to files and also “copy” Web pages. It appears that what actually happens is that the text of the Web page gets copied and shortcuts to the Web html page and its linked graphics get copied into an “Attachments” window at the right side of the screen. To save the entire Web page it appears that one has to copy each “attachment” to a file on one’s hard drive and then “embed” the files into the AnyNote file. This is nothing like MyBase+WebCollect, which automatically stores all of a page into its file.

There are Tabs to show the Tree, a Search window, Favorite notes, a History of notes and folders visited, and a Calendar. There is an easy-to-use event reminder capability tied in with the calendar. (I wish my other PIMs had this.)

One can flag notes and make a note or folder “read only.”

All-in-all, this PIM is not for me, although I do wish my others had the Favorites, History, and Calendar/event reminder features.

-sc

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