WhizFolders 6.1
Note Taking Software, Outliner and Link Manager for your notes & ideas

IMPORTANT: Don't forget to see the following pages:

• Screen shots
• Demos
• New features in WhizFolders 6.1
• New features in WhizFolders 6 as compared to old version 5
• Click here to see our comparison sheet that shows the difference between the Pro and Deluxe editions.

Convenient double-pane document window

• Each document (a single disk file) can contain thousands of notes
• Explorer style double-pane note viewer for each document
• A hierarchical outliner list is presented on the left
• The content of the selected note appears on the right
• Adding a note is as easy as clicking a toolbar button or Insert key
• Easily outline or rearrange the notes by buttons or by drag and drop

The magic of hyperlinks

• Connect your notes with hyperlinks for easy review
• The link can even be to a note in another document
• The link can also point to an arbitrary position in a note
• Direct links are possible from the note list too
• Any web addresses that you type in the note become a hyperlink automatically
• You can have links to other types of document on the disk so that you can launch them from your note
• The advantage is that you can keep your notes around the links to describe the documents
• An insert link wizard available
• Drag and drop interface for inserting links is also available
• Links can even be typed as they use simple markup commands (similar to HTML but even easier)
• Links in raw format are visible in the editor so that they can be corrected easily for problems. No hidden fields.
• The easy format makes it possible to generate links by external scripts to import in WhizFolders. See the Calendar example in FAQs.
• Concept of links in notes makes it easy to make your own bookmark documents with nice notes to accompany the bookmarks

An editor like Wordpad with more features

• Quick editing in the document window pane
• Separate tabbed editor window possible to keep many notes open for editing
• More than one such editor windows also possible to compare notes
• Format text for bold, underline, etc
• Change the font of selected text
• Change color of the text, highlight or even the full note window
• Insert pictures or OLE objects
• Make bulleted or numeric lists
• Change indentation and the paragraph alignment
• Control spacing between lines
• Superscript, subscript
• Recognizes web addresses as links
• Insert link wizard to insert links to other notes or documents
• Detachable format bar in the advanced editor
• Floating color bar for color options

Printing features

• Produce nice printouts containing multiple or all of the notes
• Print lists of notes too
• Get an automatic table of contents for the note titles at the end of the printout
• Headers 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
• Resume large printouts from an interrupted page or print a range of pages.
• 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
• Force page breaks within notes
• Merge many notes as one note for printout

Additional features for writers

• 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
• Join lines to make paragraphs
• Export your topics to single or multiple RTF files for use with your word processor
• Save plain text to a text file with automatic word wrap at, say column 70
• 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
• Use it as an authoring tool to create teaching resources
• Turn your notes into electronic books and distribute them as educational software
• The paid version includes a 100,000 word American and British English Spelling-checker
• See the separate discussion WhizFolders, an Introduction for Writers

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

• Although one document can keep lots of notes, it is still a single disk file
• You can manage these document files using traditional disk software and utilities
• You can treat each separate document file as a category of notes for easier classification
• There are no hidden database files to deal with, just a single file for a category of notes
• You can easily send document files to others who can view them with freeware viewer application
• The main window keeps a list of document files
• You can launch a recently used document quickly from the main window
• The main window also has features to manage this list of document files

Drag and drop Outlining

• The notes can be resequenced easily by the move up, down, top, bottom buttons
• Drag and drop movements also supported
• To outline notes in hierarchy, simple select and promote or demote buttons can be used
• Drag and drop can also be used to put notes as children or siblings of the target note
• Notes can also be dragged and dropped across documents
• Copy and paste can also be used to duplicate notes
• Keyboard shortcuts are available for most of the operations

Classic Clipboard Utility

• Notes can be copied and pasted. Children are automatically included.
• The paste can even be done outside WhizFolders where the merged RTF text appears
• The option to include or exclude the names in copy available
• RTF copied from another application can be normally pasted in the editor. If pasted in the list of notes, it creates a new topic with the pasted information.
• Automatic paste (watch clipboard) can be switched on so that any text subsequently copied creates a new topic
• This makes it easy to go on collecting notes from the Internet
• Force plain text option available because sometimes the rich text is not properly copied by copying applications like Internet Explorer
• Sound can be configured to notify of automatic copies

Powerful Desktop Management

• Multiple window interface for easier brainstorming and viewing. MDI like interface without the draw back of MDI in that no frame window obstructs the view of the desktop
• No need to close child editor windows. They close automatically or you can close all of them by Window menu to unclutter the desktop
• Remember a document's desktop to reopen at exactly where you left off
• Option to remember open editors too
• Even the whole desktop of WhizFolders with all the open documents can be restored at next start up
• Open documents from Windows Explorer or from WhizFolder main window
• Convenient list of recently used documents
• Option to keep application running in tray or notification area
• Tiling, cascading options available on Window menu
• Easily locate an open window on the Window menu

Import/Export

• Export to one or separate rtf files for use in a word processor
• Alternatively, use copy and paste to merge topics to a word processor
• Import external text files, each as a separate note
• Drag and drop from explorer
• Break and import a large text file into topics or chunks
• Export the topics to a CSV file for use in a database application that may have its own format for a note database
• Export to create a web page with working links. Picture export not possible but special HTML tags supported to insert IMG statements
• Please see clipboard features too

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 too

You can connect your notes for easy review. Your mind gets many cross-thoughts when taking down notes. It is important that you record each of them. Yet, you should be able to go to that other note when doing a review.

Link 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" too

You 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 ease

When 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 too

Format the text in your notes with easy, detachable format bar so that you can use bold, italic and underline character types along with an option to change the color & background color of text and background color of the topic window.

You 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 file

Using 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 too

Brainstorm your ideas better with multiple window interface. View and edit your notes in multiple windows for maximum flexibility. Get the choice of directly editing a note in the viewer pane or edit multiple notes in separate tabbed pages in separate text editor windows. The instant closing or saving of all the child editors of a WhizFolder document is a real convenience! Use this perfect Windows notepad replacement today to organize your ideas better.

You 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 contents

Produce nice printouts containing multiple notes. You get an automatic table of contents for the note titles at the end of the printout.

Headers 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 features

WhizFolders 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

• Customize many of the toolbars to your own liking.
• Import external text files, each as a separate topic
• Break and import a large text file into topics or chunks.
• Export the topics to a CSV file for use in a database application that may have its own format for a note database.
• and so on...

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.

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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