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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 21, 2006 at 01:36 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Steve, so does Treepad Lite actually save in plain text or is it a special Treepad
>file?
>
Hi, Daly,
The Treepad Lite files (which have a *.hjt extension) are in fact text files with code built in. I opened the Manual.hjt file that comes with Treepad Lite in NoteTab and have extracted the first node from that file. Here it is:
dt=Text
TreePad User Guide
0
TreePad Lite 2.9.4 User Guide
======================
Updated April 21, 2002
This guide also applies to TreePad Asia 2.9.4
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TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia are freeware versions of our flagship product, TreePad PLUS.
If you want more features, including:
- Styled text
- Hyperlink support
- Website creation
...and much more, download a free trial version of TreePad PLUS at http://www.treepad.com
————————————————————-
This user guide was written by Andy Fielding and Henk Hagedoorn.
For writing and editing services, contact Andy Fielding at http://www.andyfielding.com
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Steve Z.
Posted by Derek Cornish
Dec 21, 2006 at 07:03 AM
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
Posted by criss
Dec 25, 2006 at 06:03 PM
> Chriss, Derek, Wes and all, I have now downloaded EditPad, UltraEdit, and Emeditor—talk about a major CRIMP attack—must be the devilishly short hours of
> daylight on the Canadian Prairies at this time of year.
> So, any thoughts on how they compare with each other, or what I should be looking for?
Daly, these three programs are all very capable with Ultraedit perhaps the most complete one. All support syntax highlighting, tree view, spell check, macros, outlining = code folding.
It’s more a mattter of taste (EditPad Pro lacks search and replace in files). You can try just one of them, I would recommend Ultraedit (very good forum) or Emeditor (slim, plugins).
There is one thing I want to add regarding the text only approach.
I used many information managers but I never put much information outside the document itself (organisation, tree, ...) because this is so difficult to export/import. So I always tried to get as much as possible directly into the text (title, tags, links, dates). Fe. instead of attachments I use file-links (which are easily invoked via double clicking even in editors).
So it’s easy to transport the information between different programs (to alleviate the effects of CRIMP).
Best regards
Christian
Posted by Derek Cornish
Dec 29, 2006 at 02:11 AM
Christian -
> I used many information managers but I never put much information outside the document itself (organisation, tree, ...) because this is so difficult to export/import.
Excellent point. Zoot’s developer also mentions the advantages of building metadata into the data itself when it is important - for example, by using delimited fields rather than relying on temporary dynamic features like virtual folders. This information can then be retained when exporting from Zoot.
Derek
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.
>
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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