ConnectedText 3.0.0.7 is a Information Management product from connectedtext.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, ConnectedText is a strong but simple information management system, based on wiki principles. Indeed, it is a personal wiki system. But this only begins to describe it. ConnectedText is also much more than that. It is:
a free-form note-taking and note-management software that allows you to keep an unlimited number of notes in one file (or many files), instantly accessible by sophisticated full-text searches that can span all open files; and navigating between topics is a breeze: it's like a notebook with an unlimited number of pages (which can be linked to one another easily)
a freetext database (i.e. no "fields") with hyper-linking capability, providing you with a fast and easy way to store and structure or organize all your notes; with ConnectedText you can master the tremendous quantity of information available and necessary to do well in today's world
a thinking tool or workpad for your ideas and thoughts, allowing you to structure and organize them by means of categories, and in many other ways; it can be as simple or sophisticated as you want it to be
a more than just rudimentary outliner: with it's outlining view working like a one-pane outliner, though it can also be made to work two-pane outliner, as topics from the file can be dragged into the outliner.
a clipboard collection tool: when the clipboard catcher is on, anything copied to the Windows Clipboard is automatically transfered to a ConnectedText topic; but you can also drag and drop information from almost any source on the Web or your computer
With ConnectedText, you can easily create any kind of personal or professional database. It's so flexible that you can use to it to store all of the pieces of information found in the Web, thoughts, code snippets, addresses, tasks, recipes, contact information, lists, numbers, records of any kind, your professional research, your electronic books or texts, etc. Its uses are only limited by your imagination.
ConnectedText Features:
User interface:
* Multiple workspaces open at same time, with tabbed browsing (see screen shot)
* Several views can be docked
* Full support of Unicode
* Store all topic revisions, each with own notes
* Use of Cascading Style Sheets to render text
* Navigator to show topic relationship
* Full text search with boolean, phrase and proximity operators. Queries can be saved for latter use
* Complete history navigation
* Built-in web browser (see screen shot)
* Plugin architecture
* OLE Automation
* Bookmark manager for topics
* Minimization to system tray
* Configuration of keyboard shortcuts
* Toolbar customization
* Multiple desktop layouts can be used
* Clipboard catcher
* Complete Outline system
* Multi language: English, Portuguese, Danish, Italian and German
Wiki features
* Automatic creation of table of contents for a topic
* Tables and bulleted lists
* Dictionary lists
* Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP images, with resizing and positioning (see screen shot)
* Support for Flash animations and AVI and MPEG moview.
* Five levels of headers which can be collapsed/expanded.
* Text effects: bold, italic, underwrite, strike through, etc
* Paragraph indenting
* URL, mail and file linking
* Allows inclusion of a topic inside other, even from other projects
* Links between projects
* Anchor links
* Automatic URL detection
* Special category topics
* Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX (see screen shot)
* Rename or delete any topic with automatic change of references
* Inline styles to improve text appearance
* Topics can have an associated icon
* Topics can be locked to prevent editing
* Topics can be redirected
* Include information dynamically from external sources using plugins
* Topic templates can be created
* Plugins for chart and graph generation (see screen shot).
* Allows inclusion of HTML code inside topics
* Auto-link topic
* Semantic extensions for topic attributes
* Auto-backup
Editor
* Completion proposal for topic names, categories, properties, images and scripts (see screen shot)
* Support proportional and fixed fonts
* Accept URL, file, image and text drag and drop
* Syntax highlighter
* Search and replace
* Spell checker
* Auto save
* Special paste to create a new topic
* Allows copy of images from browsers or other sources using drag and drop
* Allows transfer of topics between projects using drag and drop
* Images can be pasted from Clipboard
Tools
* Export topics to text, HTML Help or HTML files
* Import topics from text, HTML and RTF files
* See all topics that links to the current topic
* Compare any two revisions (see screen shot)
* Topic analysis to help figure out linking problems
* History of topic changes
* Category tree view which shows the hierarchy of categories
* Images manager
* Revisions removal tool which removes unnecessary revisions based in a criteria
* Backup, restore and shrink functions to manage projects
* Supports ActiveScripting. Write scritps to automate tasks in ConnectedText using your favotire language: VBScript, Javascript, Perl, Python, TCL or Ruby. The license of this office software is Commercial, the price is $29.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of ConnectedText, you can buy this office software.