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Posted by mahe
Nov 18, 2015 at 07:18 PM
Is there a good alternative to TreePad? Development seems to be inactive (last version released January 2014 for Enterprise version and March 2015 for Pro).
I cannot find any thorough info about alternatives, they withhold very important information like database limits (max number of nodes/notes, max number of attachments/files, max recommended size of database, file size limits and so forth) and type of used encryption (AES256, Blowfish, RC4, ...) or just password protection only without encryption.
I am planning to build my own knowledge database and I have a plenty of PDFs, snippets, text files, screenshots and voice memos.
Posted by Michel Laglasse
Nov 25, 2015 at 07:35 PM
Hi Mahe,
Nobody seems to answer your question…
I can give you my answer, but it won’t be neutral..
A long time ago, I had the exact same need as yours : building a knowledge base, with texts, images, pdfs, any kind of files, lots of them, some of them pretty big… I didn’t find any program that did what I had in mind, so I created my own soft.
It’s called Goozzee, you can download it at http://goozzee.sourceforge.net/
It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
There are 2 versions :
- GoozzeePE : Personal Edition, single user
- GoozzeeNE : Network Edition, multi-user
I’ve been using it for over 10 years at my work, and I keep using it, and improving it everyday.
The biggest knowledge based I created with Goozzee contained 800 nodes and 1100 attached files. But I’m sure it can handle much much more data ;-)
I don’t know if it could fit your need….
Kind regards,
Buzz.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Nov 25, 2015 at 11:32 PM
Thanks for the info about Goozzee. Looks very interesting. I shall have to trial it.
Do you have an RSS feed for http://goozzee.sourceforge.net/news.html please?
Thanks again.
Posted by jaslar
Nov 26, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Do look at Notecase Pro. http://www.notecasepro.com/
Like Treepad (a two pane hierarchical note-taker). But under active development, multi-platform, very responsive developer and community, and with a robust feature set.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 26, 2015 at 12:17 AM
mahe wrote:
>Is there a good alternative to TreePad?
>I am planning to build my own knowledge database and I have a plenty of
>PDFs, snippets, text files, screenshots and voice memos.
This is not an easy question to answer because we don’t know what features or benefits you are exactly looking for. There are many different types of solutions out there that might be taking very different routes to solve the same problem.
Do you need it to have a tree-like hierarchy like TreePad? How about UltraRecall, RightNote or TreeProjects then? Or can it look like a database (e.g. myBase) or a wiki (ConnectedText)? Then there are the big boys like OneNote.
BTW, with updates in March 2015 TreePad doesn’t sound that moribound. Software in this category (especially those developed by one-man bands) may not get updated all that often. And there are plenty of oldies (such as Surfulater) that are still goodies….