The Guide

Because Knowledge Grows On Trees

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The Guide evolved from the need to have an application that could organize information and ideas in a hierarchical, tree-like structure. Tree-based structures are frequently employed to manage information through a "divide-and-conquer" approach, wherein each level of the tree represents a further level of specialization of the parent-level topic — the best example of this being a book.

The Guide is an application that allows you create documents ("guides") which inherently have a tree (which you can modify as you please) and text associated with each node of the tree. The text itself is of the rich-text variety, and the editor allows you to modify the style and formatting of the text (fonts, bold, italics etc).

For the initiated, the Guide is a two-pane extrinsic outliner. This concept is similar to mindmapping in some ways.

A picture is worth a thousand words: have a look at some screenshots.

Availability

The Guide is available as an installable package for Microsoft Windows 2000 and upwards (XP, 2003, 2008, Vista). It should work (although not tested) on the 64-bit versions also. The binaries are also available as a zip file that requires no installation and support portable use. The Guide is a 32-bit native C++ Win32 application (that uses MFC).

News

(Check out the development blog "Building The Guide" for discussions and status of development.)