Pierre Paul Landry

HelpSmith at GAOTD 2/7/2008

After trying it out a bit, looks positive. Good editor, fast, stable. Not very automated, so could be used for other than help authoring but may not be as productive for producing help files. All in...

HelpSmith at GAOTD 2/7/2008

HelpSmith is free today at GAOTD. It seems like a decent 2-pane outliner, capable of generating help files. I'll download it and give a more detailed report later on.

Infohesive 2/5/2008

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Then there is a name... for a company that calls itself 2brightsparks, I would have expected a better name. Infohesive? Sounds like a household cleaning product. Actually, remind...

Infohesive 2/4/2008

Yes it does seem like a good start, a standard 2-pane outliner with the ability to create HTML-like help files (not real ones). HelpMaker is a similar product but which can generate real help files. ...

XMind 1/30/2008

One reason I was looking at XMind was that it seems to support many to many relationships (i.e. multiple parents) as does SQLNotes. The other reason is that is supports many different map types. As fo...

XMind 1/29/2008

Some users are reporting very sluggish operation... is that the case? (Since it is based on an open data format, I'm considering using Microsoft Sync framework to create live-sync with my pet projec...

Another free tree-based PIM and a free calendar/to-do 1/25/2008

Thanks for the kind words Daly. I think the answer is that it is so easy to combine a simple tree control with MS rich-text control. You then instanly get a 2-pane outliner, like zillion others. Kind ...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 1/25/2008

It isn't GrandView just yet, but SQLNotes HTML Export has been expanded. Outline and rich text can be combined into a single document with the possibility to collapse both the outline (click on the +)...

And the winners are... 1/15/2008

Stephen Zeoli wrote: > > >Not indiscrete at all. I clipped them into OneNote. Once the whole list was assembled, I >copied it into Notetab where I sorted the lines alphabetically, and manually coun...

Top Developments in 2007 12/31/2007

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >SQL Notes is a hybrid one-pane outliner (a writing tool) and database (an information repository). Just like Connected Text --a wiki which also provides visual navigation-...

Top Developments in 2007 12/28/2007

Sniff Sniff... I was hoping someone would mention SQLNotes (www.sqlnotes.net) as one of the top development in outlining software in 2007... I'll aim to be in the 2008 contest instead ;-)

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/21/2007

Back to the original subject of this thread, I got news from Ray at PocketThinker: Ray wrote: Actually, I am considering to make the whole codes open source. That way you won't need to pay anything. ...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/18/2007

Alex wrote: > more ‘sexy’ name for your product Do you have suggestions? How about OutBase, the outlining database/PIM ? How about Daou, the data outliner/PIM ? How about IciNotes ?

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/17/2007

Cassius wrote: >I hope that the outlines will also have some numbering, etc. options rather than just the bullets and optional lines connecting outline items that are at the same level. Mark wrote: >...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/17/2007

>I hope that the outlines will also have some numbering, etc. options rather than just the bullets and optional lines connecting outline items that are at the same level. Numbering column is always p...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/17/2007

>I like this. Even more so if I can turn off the lines between the items, the yellow background color, the toolbar and the status bar. :-) All can be done in the current version except grid lines. I'...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/17/2007

Mark wrote regarding GrandView installation: >I extracted all the files into a single directory. Then I opened up a DOS command window and ran install.exe from that directory. Install.exe did not wan...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/16/2007

Mark wrote: >Pierre, sorry, but that’s a problem with SQLNotes from my brief experience with it: It throws too much Windows gunk at you when you first start the program. A few click and it can look a...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/15/2007

Derek Cornish wrote: >Pierre - > >That's very neat! I' ll email you screenshots of how GV does it, using my post >to Steve in another thread as an example. I've given some thought to this and the in...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/14/2007

Derek Cornish wrote: >> A picture is worth a thousand words, but I can’t seem to find anything on GrandView > >I've emailed some screenshots (*.png) to your website support address. > Thanks! I've do...

MaxThink 12/13/2007

>An interesting question is whether DOS was actually more congenial to the development of powerful outliners than Windows. Even without knowing anything about DOS, I think I can “feel” the DOS logic i...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/13/2007

Humm... I don't quite understand. The written text outline is shown as outline items or in the word-processing window? A picture is worth a thousand words, but I can't seem to find anything on GrandVi...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/13/2007

It was pretty clear from his e-mails, that he had no interest in working on/selling it anymore. As to a Grandview replacement, what features are missing in the current version of SQLNotes? Derek Co...

Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker 12/13/2007

I actually chatted with the author. Business was so and so, but more important, he had no more interest in selling it (he has a demanding full-time job and no PDA anymore). I offered to continue sell...

SQLNotes - A new Outliner 11/28/2007

Graham Rhind wrote: >SQL-Notes is one of the few packages I have downloaded and not immediately >uninstalled. Though the developer compares the product a great deal with Zoot (its >item window is r...

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