I was speaking to someone the other day who collects snippets from a software support news group and pastes them into a word file so she can search for them later, including bits of prgramming code.

Now I am aware of many "paid for" tools that would be better for this than word, but can anyone suggest a free program that she should try. Something with a clipboard feature would seem appropriate.

My mind seems a complet blank on this at the moment.

Thanks,

Graham

If this is a newsgroup that can be browsed via the web, she could try the free Scrapbook extension for Firefox:

http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

Chris

Yes, a reasonable suggestion, but I think she is tied to MSIE and some will be mailing lists. And as I wasn't thinking in terms of a browser based solution I didn't make it explicit that this will also act as repository for other snippets of information some of which will be typed in.

Graham



Chris Murtland wrote:

If this is a newsgroup that can be browsed via the web, she could try the free Scrapbook
extension for Firefox:

http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

Chris

Graham -

How about NoteBox Disorganizer, the Squirrel Technologies program that was discussed on outliners.com last year (I think). It's at:

http://www.geocities.com/goosnargh37/NDC.html

It's described as "a spreadsheet-style note collection program" - quirky, but/and people seemed to like it.

Derek

Derek,

I must admit, that I was thinking more of Treepad Lite or NeoMem, nether of which I could remember the name of when I originally posted. But I was hoping for something with a capture from clipboard option.

Thanks,

Graham

Here's some FREE stuff that comes to mind...

File Amigo Lite - Free
http://www.fileamigo.com/Overview.htm

If you're into databases - seems to pack a lot of punch. Can't tell if Free version supports forms.


NoteKeeper - Free
http://www.tolon.co.uk/notekeeper/

Two-pane outliner.


TreeLine - Free
http://www.bellz.org/treeline/index.html

Two-pane outliner, xml forms. Author keeps plugging away at it, some very interesting work.


Literary Machine - LM2000- Free
http://sommestad.com/lm.htm

Takes some getting used to, I believe it supports a clipboard monitor - not sure if this support is in Free version. Haven't played with this is a while.


Later,
Ken Ashworth

Graham, it isn't free, but I find that Clip Cache Plus does a great job of capturing everything that goes to clipboard.
http://www.xrayz.co.uk/clipcache/?page=default

Daly

Graham Smith wrote:

I was speaking to someone the other day who collects snippets from a software support
news group and pastes them into a word file so she can search for them later, including
bits of prgramming code.

Now I am aware of many "paid for" tools that would be better
for this than word, but can anyone suggest a free program that she should try.
Something with a clipboard feature would seem appropriate.

My mind seems a complet
blank on this at the moment.

Thanks,

Graham

Ken,

Thanks for these suggestions, some programs here I've never heard of.

I shall give them a more detailed look.

Graham

Daly,

Yes I thought of just a clipboard tool ( I have ClipCache) and may yet suggest this, or something similar.

Thanks,

Graham

Here's a good one.

Web Idea Tree - $29.95 - Personal Edition

http://www.webideatree.com


I had mentioned this program in a post to the old Outliners Forum shortly before it went down.

Although this program is primarly a Content Management System for website generation, it lends itself well to many of the tasks desired in an information manager, research and/or writing tool (presentation).

The interface is a typical two-pane display, project (website) tree on the left, tree node detail editor on the right. The right hand pane offers three view modes (tabs) - Editor (rtf ?), HTML Editor, Preview (Rendered).

Page layout and site structure are controled thru Cascading Style Sheets, managment of which is made very easy thru some slick dialogs.

Ten (10) Custom Fields can be defined for a project and display in the Rendered page for each tree node (Idea).

A separate Bibliographic database is available with (40) available fields. These can be saved and loaded, but only one biblio database can be attached to a project at a time - I guess if you had multiple biblio databases you could load one against a project structure - publish - then load another - publish....

Extensive import capabilities.

External database access thru ODBC.

The Editor (rtf ?) has very good table support.

Keyword indexing is automatic, separate biblio index, TOC and Index generation.

I found the program to be very stable. I was getting some program errors after the last update that seemed particular to my system, the author worked with me on resolving the issue - although we weren't able to pin-point the problem the author did provide a working executable with a different library (compile). I was impresssed with the level of service.


The manual is very comprehensive, and a good example of a site generated by the program.

http://www.webideatree.com/mu-en/text/index.html


Clipboard Monitor function - Toggle - discussion of auto-paste behavior, depended on current view tab focus: as appended within an idea (tree node text) OR appended code to HTML Editor OR as new idea (tree node) in Preview tab.

http://www.webideatree.com/mu-en/text/auto-import.html


Granted it's not the holy grail, but for the price...

(I'm just a user, no connection to program).


Later,
KenA

Ken,

Another really interesting program, I think I give this one a look for myself.

Thanks,

Graham

Ken Ashworth wrote:

Here's a good one.

Web Idea Tree - $29.95 - Personal
Edition