Whiz Folders Deluxe 6

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Feb 28, 2007 at 01:26 PM

Hello group

I am in the situation where I need to find a tool to create eBooks or help files.
Most professional help and manual creation tools available today are great but too expensive.

Because I have a licence of WhizFolders 5.6 I decided to upgrade to WhizFolders Deluxe v6.

This new version is very promising. Apart from the look and feel (Win XP style) I like the tool. It is very useful for writing. You can have several topics open with tabs in one window. You can link to different topics and even to particular positions within a topic. Further, WhizFolders provides Universal links. These links can be added to any Windows applications and when you click such a link then the topic in WhizFolders is opened. IdeaMason and UltraRecall provide the same or similar functionality.

WhizFolders Deluxe has one outstanding feature: You can assign keywords not to topics only you can also assign keywords to a part of a text. This is very helpful if you need to find passages of text where you need to do something. I just assign the keyword ‘rework’ or ‘check again’ to these passages and I then can easily find them.

The applications lets you create an exe file for distribution. This is very handy and the receiver of the file has nothing to install. Or you can save all pages or a selection of pages of a file as rtf files for distribution.

When you print several or all topics of a file you can decide whether you want to add a table of content to the print out. You can even choose whether you want to add the toc at the beginning or at the end of your print out.

The new version allows to enter tables. The process is at least a bit strange but you can get used of it.

This is a first short snapshot of my experiences with WhizFolders Delxue. To summarize the most important fact: WhizFolders is a tool for writing. I think to use it, in addition to write software manuals, as a brainstorming tool.

More information here: http://www.whizfolders.com/

Regards,
Dominik