What Is Compass
Compass has been a popular and powerful bookmark manager utility program since its first release in January, 1997.  It supports three most popular browsers – Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Opera.  It also supports shell settings to launch generic browser and other associated programs.  What makes Compass unique is the power of handling the hierarchical structure of folders.  With Compass, you’ll be amazed how easily you can find and organize your bookmarks the way you want, and how easily you can integrate all bookmarks from different computers or different browsers.

Not only is Compass a bookmark manager, but it is also an “outline editor” or a “note editor.”  You can use Compass to create your personal journal, notes, outlines, memos, … etc.  Since v.2.70, Compass provides a command to create “Directory Map” such that you can annotate your local directories and files. When you use Compass as an outline editor, you will find Compass is even better than the programs that were created for that purpose.

You can also use Compass as a report or web page generator.  With the power of Template, you can export your bookmarks or notes in the format you want. The new v.2.70 adds new Template features to control different folder levels and to generate multiple files that linked back to the main output file.

Compass has a host of useful features to help you manage your bookmarks: find duplicate bookmarks, find dead links, update redirected URLs, retrieve keywords and descriptions, powerful logical search, import, export, merge, sort, create directory map, and more.

Compass can easily handle more than thousands of bookmarks.  Compass has been tested and works with Netscape 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and Opera 3.x on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000.

Brief Features List:
+ Handles Netscape, IExplorer, and Opera file format.  Uniform user interface for file open, save, import, export, and merge.  All file I/O operations are applicable to all three file formats.
+ Unique Tree, List, and Description three-pane layout with two displaying styles - Explorer style and Compass style.
+ Export with Template lets you export bookmarks or folders to the format you want.  You can edit or create your own Templates.
+ Powerful logical AND, OR, NOT search and intelligent find duplicate URLs.
+ Password protect your bookmark files.
+ Super fast multi-threading generic socket connection to check links, retrieve keywords, description and redirected URLs.
+ Powerful multi-selectable Tree pane.
+ Extensive drag & drop - to and from different panes, different instances, Compass and browsers, desktop, and Windows Explorer.
+ Communicates with Netscape, IExplorer, and Opera to launch links, add new links, open new browsers, replace URLs.
+ Tray icon access.
+ Versatile sorting options.
+ Dynamic Bookmarks menu.