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.

Unicode Support

Correctly handles text in all languages.

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.

Search

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

Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks to other nodes, files, directories, e-mails or URLs.


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Configurable Colors and Fonts

Change foreground and background colors of text, nodes and tree/text panes.

Icons, Checkboxes or Both

Adorn your trees with icons, checkboxes or both.

Node Icons

Change node icons.

Small and Portable

Just 1 MB installation file (v2.0). Fully supports portable mode -- carry it with you on your USB stick.

Fast and Lightweight

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

Context-sensitive Status Bar

A useful status bar:




Insert Date and Time

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

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.