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Looking for a note taking app that can link relative paths.
orange386:
Thanks for the suggestion tomos, I tried it briefly, but you're right in that it seems to be overkill. I have to say it certainly has features like advertised, lol.
Anyway, I think I might have finally found something, its called MemPad.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=889#comments
I've been messing about with it, and so far it looks like it will solve my needs. The following is what I have gleaned from using it for a bit:
Pros:
1. ) Freeware and portable.
2. ) Minimalist look and feel.
3. )Lightweight. Task Manager shows it at 1,732k.
4. )The only two pane note taker I've found that can make relative links for the reasons in my previous posts. (Example: file:ReadMe.txt, or file:text_files\readme.txt).
Cons:
1. ) Cant drag and drop nodes in the tree pane with the mouse.. one has to use keyboard shortcuts to move them around.
2. ) Export is limited to just .txt output. (Though it doesnt look too bad, and I can "work" with it easily enough.)
3. ) The menu bar options are quirky. For example theres no undo option listed. One has to use a keyboard shortcut to do it. (Looking through the help file, one has to use keyboard shortcuts for a lot of things, it seems.)
4. ) Making a link to a file requires me to replace all spaces in the file name with underscores. (Though this is minor because I can mass rename this through XYplorer easily.)
Features I wish it had:
1. ) Multiple notebooks support with a tab bar.
2. ) Drag and drop nodes in the tree pane with the mouse.
3. ) Export to .html tree, .csv, or a folder structure with text files in them for nodes.
4. ) An "insert file link option" instead of having to write links into the node by hand.
At this point, the downsides I've found are minor since it can do what I need it to do. If I encounter any deal breaking issues later on, I'll report back.
rjbull:
Anyway, I think I might have finally found something, its called MemPad.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=889#comments
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Cons:
2. ) Export is limited to just .txt output. (Though it doesnt look too bad, and I can "work" with it easily enough.)
3. ) Export to .html tree, .csv, or a folder structure with text files in them for nodes.-orange386 (July 26, 2009, 06:05 PM)
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Send the author an e-mail and ask him if he'll send you a copy of his Qhtml utility:
Qhtml receives MemPad's export, and produces a HTML page, taking care of the following jobs:
* use a HTML template where the exported text will be embedded
* handle line breaks and paragraphs
* pass HTML tags, which are required in square brackets
* handle some special tags like current date and titles
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4. ) Making a link to a file requires me to replace all spaces in the file name with underscores. (Though this is minor because I can mass rename this through XYplorer easily.)
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I think that's a limitation of Windows, which allows you to include spaces in file paths, and then won't honour them >:( Happens to me at work when trying to e-mail links to UNC files on the network.
4. ) An "insert file link option" instead of having to write links into the node by hand.
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Not sure what you mean by that, but, you use XYplorer. I've assigned Ctrl-U in XYplorer so that if the cursor is on a file, the UNC path+filename are sent to the clipboard, so you can instantly paste them into MemPad or whatever editor. Go to Tools -> Customize Keyboard Shortcuts (Shift-F9 brings this up directly) -> Item UNC Path/Name(s), and assign your chosen hotkey.
1. ) Multiple notebooks support with a tab bar.
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F7 instantly toggles between current and last-used notebooks, but you probably mean all notebooks (or a chosen set) on a tab bar.
criss:
I don't know if Gazette (linked notes, wiki type notepad) is exactly what you are looking for, but I use it and like it very much - it's beautifull in it's simplicity (like the other software at Zeno Systems:
http://www.zenosys.com/gazette/index.html
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