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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 11, 2008 at 07:09 PM
JohnK wrote:
>Steve Z—I have never heard of PowerOutlines before. It’s always
>exciting when you come across something new! But it does seems very expensive for what
>it does (you would need at least the Pro edition to avail of decent search). And
>although it’s been going for almost a year, the user group has just 22 members (and that
>group also covers Insight). I’m getting an uneasy feeling…And single machine
>licences are a big no-no as far as I am concerned. I have three machines to
>feed.
I wasn’t even aware of the users group on Yahoo… Thanks for pointing it out. It does seem a little scary that there are only 20 or so members (now one more if they approve me), but the good news is the group has been going since 2001…
I agree about the cost and about the fact that the license is for just one machine… that seems rather silly in this day and age.
Steve Z.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 11, 2008 at 08:06 PM
JohnK wrote:
>I’d prefer if it used a separate text file per tree item/note.
Hi John,
Take a look at TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/features.html
I had tried it out several years ago and it seemed to do what you wanted, i.e. use the Windows folders for organising information. In practice, it’s just a powerful text editor, but with the added benefits of a windows explorer window within the program, with which you can organise your files.
Another option is a simple utility called Plain Text Wiki, available for free from Donation Coder. It works with conjunction with a variety of text editors. What it does is create a new text file from within the editor and link to it. So you end up with a variety of text files linked among them, but still searchable from the Windows system. Then again, as you noted, the whole wiki philosophy may not appeal to you.
Cheers
alx
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 11, 2008 at 09:28 PM
Alexander’s comment reminded me of a nifty, free editor called Rough Draft. You can open and create both RTF and plain text documents. It has a files panel, from which you can view folders and files—so achieving the same organizational scheme that Alexander was refering to. The program even offers the ability to search files in any given folder for text strings… unfortunately, when I tried this just now it appears to only want to search RTF files. I’ve sent a note to the developer asking if that’s a glitch or what.
Still, if anyone it looking for a great little free text editor, Rough Draft is pretty nice.
http://www.richardsalsbury.com/
Steve Z.
Posted by http://xbeta.info
May 19, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I’m also searching outliner treat only plain text,
but It’s more hard to me, because some nice tool has bugs in utf-8.
you can try this one: AceText,
from JGsoft, means brother of EditPad.
maybe this is what you want.