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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Looking for note taking software
- Message-ID: <r2_nwd=.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:54:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.201148.25760@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Aug21.175801.18651@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Organization: Messina Software
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- weiss@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug19.201148.25760@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> raymond@cps.msu.edu (Carl J Raymond) writes:
- >>
- >> I'm looking for something to help out a friend who will be spending
- >>a year taking copious notes on his new laptop PC in various archives
- >>and musemums in Europe.
- >> Specifically, we need a good note-taking package -- something that
- >>allows free-form text entry, with some kind of keyword and date
- >>searching feature. I've looked in some recent PC Magazine indexes,
- >>but came up dry. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
-
- Just out of curiosity - why not just use text editor, mark subject and
- keyword lines and then retrieve the notes in any way shape or form
- using grep, agrep, awk, whatever you wish, even your text editors's
- search facilities. Wouldn't that be the easiest and fastest?
- Completely free-form, too. Additional advantage is that it would be
- text-based only, and he could edit it at any time using ANY text
- editor available.
-
- Best,
-
- Tony
-