While browsing the SourceForge forum on the updated KeyNote, I noticed a reference to what looks like an eerily similar program to the old KeyNote, albeit with a number of improvements. It's called RightNote and details can be found at: http://bauerapps.com/RightNote.html

Although I'd prefer to see KeyNote being developed as an open source program, this "clone" (so to speak) should be very interesting to those who can't afford to wait. However, time is money - in this case $24.95.

Derek

I've been taking a look at Rightnote. Yes, looks like "Keynote 2008". It's promising.

Rightnote uses the increasingly popular TRichview editing controls (as used in MyInfo, AM-Notebook, The Journal etc) and its uses SQLite as its database engine. Fast (indexed) global search. So far, so good. It feels light and snappy in use. It also maintains many of Keynote's popular features, including flexible export options and the ability to use virtual nodes.

I emailed the developer and he said Rightnote was inspired by Keynote and in particular some of the original plans for Keynote 2.0.

I have not tried Rightnote, but I am very familiar with The Journal and MyInfo -- two applications I admire. The problem with TRichedit is that it does not have standard selection modes in its editor. For instance, you can't triple click in a paragraph to select the entire paragraph, and you can't double click a word and, with the left mouse button continued to be held down, sweep up addition whole words. In other words, its extended text selection functions are not Word standard, or (in my opinion) convenient. To me this is a major drawback and the prime reason I stopped using The Journal, which used to be my favorite writing environment before the developer switched to TRichedit (which he did because it allowed many other functions, such as tables and links). Really, there is no good excuse for creating a text editor that does not follow the standard set by MS Word... especially since that standard is so convenient.

BTW, you can select a whole paragraph in The Journal by triple clicking -- the developer added that function after I suggested it during a beta period. Unfortunately, as he implemented it, the paragraph selection occurs after letting up the mouse button on the third click, instead of on the initial depression of the third click, which makes it impossible to select multiple paragraphs this way.

It surprises me that more people do not find this nonstandard text selection as inconvenient -- and consequently a deal-breaker -- as I do. Just proves we all have different needs.

Happy holidays!

Steve Z.

And yet another...I haven't looked at this one for a while, but the open source program The Guide (http://theguide.sourceforge.net/ has reached v2.0. Straightforward offering with a limited feature set.

Have the KeyNote users here seen the latest evolution which takes over from the SourceForge project?

May be of interest to some.

http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/

Jack

Man, it looks good but why do all small software companies use that same awful web site template?

It sounds shallow, but it really makes me think I should avoid their products.

That, and all screenshots being from Windows XP...

shatteredmindofbob wrote:

Man, it looks good but why do all small software companies use that same awful web site
template?

It sounds shallow, but it really makes me think I should avoid their
products.

That, and all screenshots being from Windows XP...

Because most of them run this "business" in their spare time, an hour here, an hour there, at the expense of family and social time.
With the 1-5 licenses sold per week I'd estimate here, do the math,....spending time on stuff like replacing screenshots every so often and working on website design, isn't cost effective, nor is it a hobby of most of shareware developers, many just like coding but not the other stuff connected to running a shareware business (docs, website, support,...).

Hi.

Man, it looks good but why do all small software companies use that same awful web site
template?

What site are you talking about:

* http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/ -> that's the template all open-source apps on code.google.com use
* http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html -> that is a site last updated 2005

It sounds shallow, but it really makes me think I should avoid their
products.

Then you will be missing out on a useful piece of note collection software.

That, and all screenshots being from Windows XP...

What's wrong with Windows XP?

Franz