Treepad Questions

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 14, 2010 at 04:32 PM

In many ways Treepad is a good program, though I haven’t used it for years.

I looked at the Treepad page yesterday. It appears that good as it is in terms of features it has, the program lacks such features as hoisting.

Does anyone here use Treepad, or know about how it may develop in future?

Just curious.

Daly

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 15, 2010 at 02:25 PM

Looks like no one is using TreePad!

I love the free version, a lightweight, plain text organizer, but I never warmed up to the paid versions, which always felt stiff to me. But, truthfully, I haven’t checked them out in years, so they may have gotten better.

What makes you look at TreePad—just a case of the CRIMPs?

Steve

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 15, 2010 at 03:06 PM

Steve, thanks for the reply.

When I first went to the PC in 2002 I used TreePad for quite a while. So more than anything I was curious about where it is today.

I always from the program pretty good at what it did, but I think it’s failed to keep up over the years in terms of tags, clones, hoisting, etc. It seems contradictory b/c Henk, the developer, positions it as a data base.

One thing I liked was the icons and checkboxes which could be applied to each item in the outline.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Looks like no one is using TreePad!
> >I love the free version, a lightweight, plain
>text organizer, but I never warmed up to the paid versions, which always felt stiff to
>me. But, truthfully, I haven’t checked them out in years, so they may have gotten
>better.
> >What makes you look at TreePad—just a case of the CRIMPs?
> >Steve

Posted by Cassius
Apr 15, 2010 at 03:09 PM

I have the latest business version. It was last updated over a year ago and I don’t recall that being much change. I have a feeling that Henk is concentrating more on the enterprise version. It also seems to run rather slowly.

Why not email and ask?

Posted by tw
Apr 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM

I use the Enterprise version for my classroom document management and quick export to the web. The rich text editor is adequate—as a chemistry teacher I need sub/superscripts so plain text editors are out. What I like about it more than anything, however, is the ability to post assignments, lecture notes, and other short documents to my class website by simply checking those nodes and clicking “export checked nodes to the web”. A dynamic (or static) tree menu gets exported along with the nodes. I wish it used css instead of the butt ugly code of the rtf to html conversion it uses, but its about as easy as it gets to keep my website updated with the latest class documents. and the page doesn’t look too bad.

Tim Watters

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