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Saturday, June 03, 2006

Powerful personal Wiki system - ConnectedText

ConnectedText is a simple but powerful personal Wiki system. With it you can store ideas, pieces of information found in the Web, thoughts, code snippets, recipes, lists, linking them with ease. Like a notebook in which any topic can be linked to any other.

ConnectedText Features

User interface

  • Multiple workspaces open at same time, with tabbed browsing
  • 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
  • Complete history navigation
  • Built-in web browser
  • Plugin architecture
  • OLE Automation
  • Bookmark manager for topics
  • Minimization to system tray
  • Configuration of keyboard shortcuts
  • Toolbar customization

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Include information dynamically from external sources using plugins
  • Topic templates can be created

Editor

  • Completion proposal of topic names
  • Accept URL, file, image and text drag and drop
  • 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 file
  • Import topics from text, HTML and RTF files
  • See all topics that links to the current topic
  • Compare any two revisions
  • 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
Download ConnectedText (6.3 mb)

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