The Guide

Features

Here are some interesting features of The Guide.

Clean, Simple UI

Simple, intutive, unbloated.


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Rich-Text

Rich text, with lots of formatting options, including colors, various numbering styles, bulleting and line spacing.

Arranging Pages

Full support for creating and rearranging nodes. Including handy keyboard shortcuts. Intutive single-click drag-and-drop of nodes, similar to Windows Explorer (v1.6+).

Right mouse menu

Context-sensitive Status Bar

A useful status bar:




Search

Search entire tree (or a subtree) for matching text.

Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks to other pages within the guide, or to external URLs.

Configurable Colors and Fonts

Set default colors and fonts according to your taste.

Minimize, Save and Backup Options

Minimizes to system tray or task bar, auto save, auto backup.

Insert Date and Time

Insert current date (Ctrl+D) and time (Ctrl+T) while editing text or node titles. Formats are fully configurable:

Fast and Lightweight

Native Win32 C++ application, for speed and efficiency. Low memory footprint.

Easy Installation

Just 722 kB installation file (v1.4). And you can run it even without install, by simply unpacking the binary distribution into a directory -- carry it with you whereever you go on a USB stick.

Printing

Full support for printing and print preview, with configurable heading styles. Entire document, a single node, or the selected subtree can be printed.

Export to RTF

Export to a single RTF (rich text format, can be opened in Microsoft® Word) file, with configurable heading styles. Entire document, a single node, or the selected subtree can be exported.

And many more..

..in the upcoming version, v2.0. See the 2.0 WIP page for a preview.