Before you look at the features, please look at the flash demo movies too. They will give you a better idea of what WhizFolders is about
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IMPORTANT: Don't forget to see the following pages:
Convenient double-pane document window
The magic of hyperlinks
An editor like Wordpad with more features
Printing features
Additional features for writers
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Document features, a Flash Demo Movie
This flash demo movie would give you a feel of working on an actual WhizFolder document. It also shows an example of a working link between two notes. Use the familiar document file concept
Drag and drop Outlining
Classic Clipboard Utility
Powerful Desktop Management
Import/Export
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A Powerful Set of Features You can keep different category of notes in different files--each disk file keeping hundreds of your notes
You don't have to deal with many .TXT files any more. Group and organize your notes in hypertext note folders like this one. You will need more WhizFolder files only when you need to create different category of notes. WhizFolders automatically compresses your notes to save on disk space. Use an Explorer style double-pane note viewer for note taking where the list of the notes appears on the left and the selected note is shown on the right. Unlike Windows notepad, you can keep a list of many notes in one file. Adding a new note is as easy as clicking on a toolbar button or simply pressing the Insert key. Easily outline or rearrange the notes with simple drag and drop operations. No more hidden note database files to deal with. A program like Outlook Express forces you to keep all the notes in its own note database. You have little control on what its file name is, where it is kept. A WhizFolder document is like a notebook containing your notes. These documents are easier to manage as they can be named by you, and you can keep them anywhere. For example, this notebook folder (see picture) containing all the related notes is saved in a single disk file! Just open that disk file from your history list and get all your related notes. WhizFolders as a personal information manager keeps your related notes in one file but at the same time allows you to use other file system tools to manage your individual note files. Moreover, you can send these files to other users who can view them with a freeware viewer application even if they don't have WhizFolders. Use WhizFolders and get over the limitations of Windows notepad of one file per note. You can connect your notes easily with hyperlinks, connect them to external documents or web sites tooLink creation is easy in this hypertext tool! Just drag and drop a topic name from the list on to an open topic text editor. You can copy and paste links from the topic list too. Links to external documents or to the web sites is also supported. Just drag and drop items from the Windows Explorer or Favorites from Internet Explorer. Then, put your notes around the links to aid your memory. Auto detection of web URLs is also supported. An insert link wizard is also available. Easy hyperlinking make WhizFolders a first-class personal information manager and a cross reference tool. Convetional text editors like Windows notepad do not support hyperlinks. Bookmarking is useless unless you can put a note with a bookmark to aid your memory. In WhizFolders, you can drop links to external documents or web sites in your notes. This serves the dual purpose of keeping a bookmark and documenting it. WhizFolders users have used links to create some really useful documents. For example, a calendar document with hyperlinks makes WhizFolders a first-class personal information manager, diary or journal. For use as a personal information manager or as a Windows notepad replacement, you are limited only by your imagination. See the "user comments" page for more details. You can use WhizFolders as a "Clipboard Utility" tooYou can collect research material easily by Watch the clipboard feature. Just put on this feature, go on copying text or pictures in any application and the corresponding notes will be added automatically in your WhizFolder document.The clipboard utility operations Copy and paste are highly intuitive! copies multiple topics from one WhizFolder document to another or can duplicate topics within the same document. You can copy, move and outline your notes with drag and drop easeWhen you write, very often, you need to copy, move or outline your notes, within the list, from one WhizFolder to another WhizFolder, and so on. WhizFolders Organizer makes all such operations, including outlining, as easy as a drag and drop. You may not find so many drag and drop features in another outliner, organizer, personal information manager, diary, journal software or text editors like Windows notepad.Most of the operations are made easy with keyboard shortcuts so that those of you who don't like to leave the keyboard won't be disappointed. For example, during outlining, keyboard shortcuts are provided for moving topics up, down, to top or to bottom as well as to demote or promote. Once you start using WhizFolders as an outliner, you will appreciate all the subtle features. You can format your text and can insert picture and OLE objects tooYou can insert pictures (BMP, JPEG) and OLE objects in your topics too. You can also use bulleted lists, indentation and paragraph alignment, and you can control line spacing and indentation. The paid version includes a 100,000 word American and British English Spelling-checker. You can export or merge multiple topics in a single RTF fileUsing the export RTF feature either to a file or to the clipboard, you can merge multiple topics and can produce a document to further edit in your word processor. You get a choice of multiple window editing and can remember the desktop tooYou can start where you left off earlier. You also get a choice to remember this desktop of open windows so that it is restored automatically in the next session. You can keep WhizFolders running with an icon in the tray or notification area. Easily recall a document file by most recently used list. Shell integration to open files from Windows Explorer is supported. Get the MDI like Window management features without the drawbacks of MDI. Here, there is no frame window to block the view of your desktop. You can print a bunch of notes with a nice table of contentsHeaders and footers are inserted automatically. Special orphan detector feature avoids printing only the note title at the end of a page. In the paid version, you also get a print preview feature. If you are a developer, you can drag and drop copy of source files to make your notes, and then produce a nice printout of the program source. You can resume large printouts from an interrupted page or print a range of pages. You can produce a web page containing selected notes with working hyperlinks!Yes, you can turn your notes into web pages. An optional table of contents with links can be placed at the top of the web page. The pictures or OLE objects can't be exported but you can insert special [~html ...] markers to insert IMG or any other HTML statements for advanced use.If you are a writer, you will appreciate these extra featuresWhizFolders is so useful for writers that we have described it separately in WhizFolders Organizer, an Introduction for Writers. In addition, here are some extra features, useful for writers.You can change the line spacing to double or more for producing submissions of your writing. Count the number of words and characters in selected notes to see if your article meets the author guidelines. In the text editor, you can join lines to make paragraphs. You can export your topics to single or multiple RTF files for use with your word processor. You can save plain text to a text file with automatic word wrap at, say column 70. If you haven't already noticed, the watch for clipboard feature makes it a first-class clipboard utility in the research stage of your writing. Easy hyperlinking makes it easy to cross reference and brainstorm your writing projects. WhizFolders can also be used as an authoring tool to create teaching resources. You can turn your notes into electronic books and distribute them as educational software. Other features
Other introductory entry pages for the web site:WhizFolders for writers WhizFolders as outliner software WhizFolders as note organizer or note taking software WhizFolders as a Wordpad Notepad extension |