xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (xiaoxia ye) (05/29/88)
I have been looking for a note taking dest accessory for a long time. I have been using the "good old" Note Pad DA. However, its 8-page limit curtails its usefulness. Recently, I downloaded a binhex file from comp.binaries.mac called NoteTaker. I thought that it would be what I was looking for. However, much to my dismay, it is an application, not a desk accessory. Does anyone on the net know of a shareware or public domain DESK Does anyone on the net know of any shareware or public domain DESK ACCESSORY which can do the similiar thing that Note Pad can do but is more flexible ? Any pointers as to where to look for If you have a copy of such DA, can you E-mail me one ? Any pointer or info will be much appreciated. ( any in sumex ?) Thanks in advance !!! ______________________ No disclaimer. E-mail address: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu ( Xiaoxia Ye ) ______________________________________________________________________
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/30/88)
>I have been looking for a note taking dest accessory for a long time. >I have been using the "good old" Note Pad DA. >Does anyone on the net know of any shareware or public domain DESK >ACCESSORY which can do the similiar thing that Note Pad can do but is >more flexible ? It's not Public Domain or Shareware, but it is cheap (~40). It's called Acta, and it's a DA based outliner. It's replaced both my notepad and my scrapbook (since I can have it open up a default Outline and cut/paste text and pictures into it....) as well as doing lots of other things for me. You may be saying "I don't need an outliner" -- I find I don't use it much for outlining at all! Instead, I use it to keep track all those little pieces of information, text, graphics, addresses, notes, thoughts, plots, etc, etc, that used to get lost instead. You set up a default outline and build a series of major topics for each thing you want to keep track of. Bring up Acta, a mouse click, and it's there. Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (05/31/88)
Chuq Von Rospach writes... |It's not Public Domain or Shareware, but it is cheap (~40). It's called |Acta, and it's a DA based outliner. It's replaced both my notepad and my |scrapbook (since I can have it open up a default Outline and cut/paste text |and pictures into it....) as well as doing lots of other things for me. How do you get an outline open as the default outline? I've started doing what you do but it's a pain to reopen my notes outline. -- Jerry Whitnell jwhitnell@cup.portal.com ..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell
dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) (06/01/88)
Acta is very nice, however there is a shareware DA that is considerably cheaper called "NotePad II" floating around out there. I pulled it off of Compuserve, and, after playing with it awhile, decided I didn't need the capability to save large amounts of stuff on my notepad, so I got rid of it in deference to the Author's request. However, it does have the following features: + Scrollable, unlimited sized notes. + Notes separated by topic -- i.e. you can create a new note subject and it's text will be grouped separately from others. From what you descibed as your needs, I think this DA would suffice. As I remember, the author was asking $10 or $15 for it. Dave Waller Technical Computer Group Hewlett-Packard Co. Pacific Technology Park Sunnyvale, CA (408) 746-5324 [ucbvax!]hplabs!hpdstma!dave
pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) (06/04/88)
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It's not shareware, but the Phone Pad DA in the original
Battery Pak, and even better the Phone Pad II in the renamed Disk
Tools Plus package, are very nice.
Some features:
+ 150 pages, insert and delete pages (insert pushes a blank page off
the end).
+ Jump to command--select (double click) a page number in the text of
a page, hit a command key or menu item, and you jump to that page.
Lets you put a table of contents on your first page and go where you
want, or make cross-reference trains.
+ Triple-click to dial a number on your modem - kind of whizzy if
your terminal emulator is too stupid to autodial, otherwise kind of a
useless feature.
+ Selectable option to open to the same page next time, or to open to
the first page (probably your TOC).
+ In the new version, variable page size.
Of course, the star of the new package is Disk Tools II, which
is the nicest finder-replacement DA I've seen. I think the whole
package still sells for $50, and it's a great buy. If you use
unifinder and don't have a hard disk, you can replace the finder with
a little shell that supports DAs and the Shutdown manager and
DiskTools, using up less than 100K for both...
SDA
Paul Meyer pem@cadnetix.COM
Cadnetix Corp.
5775 Central Ave. {uunet,boulder}!cadnetix!pem
Boulder, CO 80301 (303)444-8075x244