KeyNote is a free
notetaking
Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to rec ...
and
outlining text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to c ...
for
Microsoft Windows
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, produced by Tranglos Software.
Overview
Keynote is based on the
tree data structure
In computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type that represents a hierarchical tree structure with a set of connected nodes. Each node in the tree can be connected to many children (depending on the type of tree), but must be conn ...
concept, allowing "nodes" in a tree panel (much like the tree panel in Windows
file manager
A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage computer files, files and folder (computing), folders. The most common Computer file#Operations, operations performed on files or groups of files incl ...
s) to represent separate fields within a single text file. Individual documents within the tree can be edited in
Rich Text Format (RTF) or simple text (unformatted).
Import and export of KeyNote files to and from TreePad files is fully supported. Each field is treated as a separate virtual document within the tree.
KeyNote is
open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...
developed in
Delphi 3. As of October 2005, development of the original program had ceased.
See also
*
Comparison of notetaking software
*
Zim
References
External links
original KeyNote project on SourceForge(abandoned)
KeyNote - New Features (KeyNote NF)(project on github.com)
Daniel Prado's blogKeyNote 1.7 file format specification
Note-taking software
Windows text editors
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