Old software I can't do without

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Posted by Magenda
Nov 7, 2013 at 03:26 AM

Notemap2

I know there are members of this forum who have been severely damaged by this program, but I have not been hit by the fatal bug that loses data.

My problem is I hate so many things about this program. The way it handles opening and saving files for example. This can be critical as I often use files as templates for other files, and if I am shutting the program down with many open windows, and I make a wrong click on the offered “save changes to file.cnm,?” prompt, I may lose hours or work.

There is so much not fun about the program. After many years, I have finally pretty much wrested control of fonts from the program to me. Still there are innumerable uglinesses.

It handles headers and footers well, which is what I need, and it lets me put the name of the file in the header, which is vital for what I do.

Cut and paste and print are both horrible. If I select a note, there is no way I have found not to cut it without also taking it’s children with it. There is no way to select those children that I want to print that I have found.

I would love to have a single page outliner that handled printing with headers and footers well, and let me select which children, which branches of the outline, I wanted to print, or to copy. I want to create big templates and chose what I need to create particular documents,

Anyone have an answer? Thanks for your consideration!

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 7, 2013 at 07:12 AM

there’s always ecco pro!

check out these print dialogs to see if they look suitable:

http://i.imgur.com/DsbM71m.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FekKKKS.jpg

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM

Magenda wrote:
Notemap2
>Anyone have an answer?

Notemap2 would have been also top of my list for writing as a single-pane outliner with inline notes, were it not for the problems you mention. I settled on Outline 4D as the next best thing and have been reasonably happy with it.

O4D does have a bit of a learning curve. I recommend reading through at least the reference card they provide (the manual is useful as well).

I believe it can do most of the things you mentioned.

Negatives:

I had to switch off UAC on my Win7, 64-bit system, to get around the annoying Windows pop-up (I heard of other ways to get around UAC but switching off was the easiest and I don’t miss it).

It does crash on very rare occasions when a) I fiddle with some obscure settings in “Document Settings” or “O4D Options” and then get back to the main document, and b) when I have too many of its windows open in its MDI. But I’ve never lost any data because I save obsessively and you can also set an automatic reminder to save with it.

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