TreeProjects - July 2013

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 26, 2013 at 03:13 PM

Hi Donovan: yes, TreeProjects is really very good, and Yaroslav is a very responsive developer. I’m currently using TreeProjects to translate a fairly sizeable magazine project; I’ve got the PDF originals in one window, with my translations in another window (TreeProjects has a very efficient MDI interface). I’ve got a couple of reference documents in background tabs, too (not just an MDI interface, but a tabbed MDI interface!).

The nice things about TreeProjects:
- very efficient (fast, small memory footprint)
- very stable (happily imports files in more or less any format; edits embedded files, all without blowing up or trashing the machine!)
- very good search engine (including hit term highlighting)
- very flexible layout (multiple windows; icons of nodes in navigation tree can be customised; nodes can be formatted, toolbars are easy to switch on/off etc.)
- limited but competent spellchecker
- capable rich-text editor
- excellent web import (almost as good as Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks!)

It’s missing a few things:
- authoring tools (notably wordcount, elegant quotation marks/apostrophes, conversion of dash to en-dash etc.)
- more sophisticated editor settings (autocapitalisation is slightly annoying)
- more selective search (but that’s getting fussy!)

but generally speaking, it’s got pretty much everything. And is a great deal less ponderous than UltraRecall or even MyInfo. Yaroslav really has created something that just zooms along; a perfect place to dump more or less everything. If it had mobile apps, I’d use it as my main info manager. As it is, I use it for a lot of stuff.

Cheers,
Bill