Has anyone tried TreeDBNotes Pro?

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Posted by Cassius
Jun 21, 2008 at 07:14 AM

http://www.mytreedb.com/treedbnotes_pro.html

Thanks!

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 21, 2008 at 11:44 AM

I bought a license for TreeDBNotes a few years bike. I liked its feature set, and the fact that I could build run-time databases for colleagues. However, I found it buggy and somewhat inconsistent. It’s been too long for me to give you details, but I stopped using it because of these issues, which never allowed me to feel really comfortable using it.

As I said, though, it has been a few years since I last used it. Perhaps the quality has improved.

Steve Z.

Posted by Carrot
Sep 22, 2011 at 03:56 PM

I have been using TreeDBnotes since 2007 and have been quite satisfied. My original reason for purchasing it was because I needed a PIM that would allow me to migrate from OneNote on Windows to a Linux system. TreeDBNotes was one of the few note applications that ran properly in Linux.

Owing to bugs and lack of web-clipping features, I was planning to migrate from TreeDBnotes to UltraRecall or MyBase.
But recently, TreeDBnotes seems to have resolved most of the problems and the developer has promised to release a web-clipping tool for it soon.

I find the interface of TreeDB to be well designed and easy to use. And I sincerely appreciate the tree display which allows users to chose styles (bold, italic, coloured text etc) for the node text in the tree. These various styles and colours makes it easier to categorize and sort through large data trees. I personally do not like ‘icons’ at all and feel they waste space - why use icons when I can colour-code my nodes?

I hope others will try out TreeDBnotes forthcoming web-clipping functions and help compare them to MyBase, UltraRecall, WebCollect and other similar applications.

Posted by CautiousChaos
Dec 5, 2011 at 08:18 PM

Finding the perfect means in which to store notes, to-dos, diaries, contacts, and accounts has been challenging. I needed more than just a simple outliner. I started off using a collection of distinct applications to do this and soon tired of having to keep it all organized. So I went to TreeDBNotes.

It’s not going to win a beauty contest (though I have used worse), but it gets the job done. Very strong outlining with rich text formatting. Solid hierarchical treeviews. Image management, tables, styles, encryption, password protection. Not a bad performer. And generally navigation is acceptable. They do a good job here.

If you explore to-do’s, contacts, and accounts, you get a slightly imperfect experience. There isn’t much flexibility around how you view your data (can’t change column order, can’t change order in which fields are filled out) and the usability for editing records is strange. You highlight a record and then click edit. Possibly this is due to the fact that you can edit multiple records at once. Cool. Good importing and exporting in all these categories.

Extras - they do load up on the extras. Icons, screen capture, password generators, scratch pads, and some fairly standard calendaring and appointment management. The latter doesn’t sync up with any enterprise system (outlook), so keep that in mind. Still, I find it good for use in tracking milestones in my project work.

This is a single-file database storing all this data. It is pretty quick on most actions and the database size is quite reasonable. Synching with dropbox has been flawless.

Support is okay. There are continual updates, so we’re not looking at a product that has passed its prime. Would like to see some expansion on the to-do’s, etc, but we’ll see I suppose…

I’m always on the lookout for something better, but for the moment, TreeDBNotes works for me.

-cc

Posted by Carrot
Dec 10, 2011 at 01:25 PM

I used TreeDBnotes for years and really like its layout and feature set.

So much so, that whenever I tried out other products, I would often find myself wondering “why did they implement it like this and not like the way its done in TreeDB?”
I think the developer of TreeDB has thought very carefullly about the layout, menues etc and has created a potentally superlative application.

But its not superlative. It had so many bugs over the last few years that either: a) some data (not lots but enough to make me fume; b) randomized the order of my notes, that I eventually began searching for a replacement. The final straw came when I realized that I must have a web-clipping feature so that I can collect news articles. TreeDB never implemented one despite many user requests that began years ago.

I began moving everything to MyBase, but soon found its interface too duncy and dated. ie) it was impossible to select multiple nodes for copying, moving or deleting without going through some convoluted un-intitive process. Also, the menu structure is quite un-standard and also un-intuitive. The developer seldom replies to questions, and there is no forum. They have developed a potentially very powerful application.And finally, it is unable to import files stored on from a tree-structured folder. You have to import each folder and its contents one at a time.

So I moved everything to MyBaseMyInfo. The import feature worked perfectly and I was able to import nested folders and all the documents they contain easily and quickly into MyInfo. I’ve not encountered any serious bugs yet, and its web-clipper will soon be improved. The app is missing many of the tools that I loved in TreeDBnotes, but “nothing is perfect” it seems. I can only hope that the developer will try out TreeDB and implement some of its outstanding features.

And I sincerely hope that TreeDB will improve dramatically. One day, it may be able to lure me back!

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