Brent's Two Cents

Dreams Answered

I had a very pleasant software experience today. Someone wrote some software than I had been mentally designing myself because I thought it would be nice to have. I do that a lot -- designing useful software in my head and then not writing it. What's better, is that they added a lot of features that I didn't have the inclination to include in my plans, and still better, they sell the thing for only twenty bucks.

It's called Hog Bay Notebook, and it's essentially a souped up version of TextEdit with the following features:

• A notebook consists of a number of pages. These can be arranged hierarchically if you like
• Each page is an RTF document. Really. You can open up the notebook document (it's really a 'package' folder) and browse around in there and find your data. This is cool in case you wind up with a Notebook document and no notebook app.
• As an RTF document, you get full text styles, colours, embedded graphics and media, etc.
• It provides a full text search. This is killer, and the main reason I think it rocks.

I probably shouldn't be so excited by this, but I really am. I'm mainly excited that I can get rid of all the RTF files that are cluttering my home folder, and just copy them into these searchable notebooks.

Check it out!

Posted by Brent Marykuca at September 11, 2003 09:51 PM