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Hi: was wondering if anyone had a strong recommendation for diary/journaling
program with a tree-like structure for year/month/date? Would appreciate any
views. John
 
J Stafford said:
Hi: was wondering if anyone had a strong recommendation for diary/journaling
program with a tree-like structure for year/month/date? Would appreciate any
views.
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I'll give a recommendation, instead of links to programs I have never
looked at. The bad I don't know of a diary program with the tree
structure you want. However, you can use Treepad quite easily for that
purpose. There is a third party utility (Tpcal) which will make a
calendar in Treepad's file format. You can play around with its cfg
file to get more or less exactly what you want. It's perhaps not
perfect but the best I can do, and not bad at all. And you can do a
lot more with Treepad (for all your information managemen!). Hey, I
use it myself.....
www.treepad.com (look for the free version, the site says 2.9.4 but
it's 2.9.5 actually; there is a link to the Tpcal utility on the site
as well).

There might be a small snag which can bother some: there has not been
a new version of Treepad freeware for more than a year now so I am
beginning to wonder if the free version has become abandonware. On the
other hand is very good as it is and will stay that, bar in case of a
drastic change of OS.

Peace man!

Tom no Bomb
 
According to "WHOEVER" about my recommendation I guess that makes TreePad
"abandonware" as well. :o)
 
Tom no Bomb said:
I'll give a recommendation, instead of links to programs I have
never looked at. The bad I don't know of a diary program
with the tree structure you want.
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TheJournal is a great piece of software, but unfortunately it isn't
freeware:

http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal.html

I don't know of any freeware that does the same thing.

Regards,
Wald
 
Here's a link to a few links. Maybe that will help!

http://www.buzzys.net/previous.html#8

Cheers
Buzzy :)
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Still, to this day, nothing comes close to the Overware product "The
Diary", stuck in freeware as v2.2. Not as nice as the beta I still
have (though it _does_ time out after a few months and I won't be able
to access till next hdd wipe/reinstall). However, none of _any_ of
the journaling programs I have tried come close to this one, even
v2.2.

The difference? You see at a glance via a calendar with boxes which
days you've written in. And you can customize the available icons
(not enough of them, though!) so that if you don't the default
installed ones, you just change (just be renaming the BMP files in the
folder). So not only can you see via a box colour change which days
have entries in any given month, but an icon highlights those entries
you deem important enough to "flag". i.e., I made up some of my own
bitmaps that I have as my default ones. The one with birthday hats
and streamers shows me there's an entry on that day referring to
someone's birthday, etc.

I can't tell you how many journaling program you can access only by a
pulldown date and you have to scroll through day-by-day to see what
days you may have made an entry. Very inefficient and time-consuming
and tedious and AGGRAVATING.

So, if it's strictly a diary/journal program and not a diary/PIM, then
The Diary v2.2 might just be something to consider:

Found here:
http://www.overware.com/os/os.php?mode=content&type=freeware&title=Freeware
Scroll down to The Diary, there are 2 entries. The first entry is to
a zip file, the second to an EXE file (I personally always prefer
ZIPs, but that's me.)

p.s., you'll see, though it's not clear, the two screenshots on that
page. Entries are found on all the boxes that have a yellow colour
fill. They don't show any with icons, though. In the yellow fill, if
you assigned an icon to any given day, the box will show a picture on
the lower right-hand corner.

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Here are the direct dl links I took from that page:
ZIP: http://www.overware.com/os/downloads/thediary.zip
EXE: http://www.overware.com/os/downloads/DiarySetup.exe

Good luck!
 
Tom said:
I'll give a recommendation, instead of links to programs I have never
looked at. The bad I don't know of a diary program with the tree
structure you want. However, you can use Treepad quite easily for that
purpose. There is a third party utility (Tpcal) which will make a
calendar in Treepad's file format. You can play around with its cfg
file to get more or less exactly what you want. It's perhaps not
perfect but the best I can do, and not bad at all. And you can do a
lot more with Treepad (for all your information managemen!). Hey, I
use it myself.....
www.treepad.com (look for the free version, the site says 2.9.4 but
it's 2.9.5 actually; there is a link to the Tpcal utility on the site
as well).
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Taking that idea one step further: Treepad files can be imported by
KeyNote - if you prefer a diary in rich text format you could create the
structure in TreePad - as suggested above - and then import the TreePad
file into Keynote.

I love TreePad and KeyNote. :)

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL2003ORGANIZERS.htm#NoteManager

Susan
 
I just posted over at alt.binaries.freeware the replacement bitmaps
for the icons of The Diary v2.2 that I mentioned below.

:oD

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Tom said:
I'll give a recommendation, instead of links to programs I have never
looked at. The bad I don't know of a diary program with the tree
structure you want. However, you can use Treepad quite easily for that
purpose. There is a third party utility (Tpcal) which will make a
calendar in Treepad's file format. You can play around with its cfg
file to get more or less exactly what you want. It's perhaps not
perfect but the best I can do, and not bad at all. And you can do a
lot more with Treepad (for all your information managemen!). Hey, I
use it myself.....
www.treepad.com (look for the free version, the site says 2.9.4 but
it's 2.9.5 actually; there is a link to the Tpcal utility on the site
as well).

There might be a small snag which can bother some: there has not been
a new version of Treepad freeware for more than a year now so I am
beginning to wonder if the free version has become abandonware. On the
other hand is very good as it is and will stay that, bar in case of a
drastic change of OS.

Peace man!

Tom no Bomb
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I'll give a thumbs up to Treepad also; I use it for everything: snippits,
email addresses, passwords, notes to myself (like what to pack for a trip),
phones, etc. I also used some kind of diary (the overware url sounds
familiar, so it may have been that). Just wanted to say cool programs. :D
 
J said:
Hi: was wondering if anyone had a strong recommendation for
diary/journaling program with a tree-like structure for
year/month/date? Would appreciate any views. John
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Thanks very much for all the responses. Appreciate it. John
 
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