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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: November 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 32,371
- Downloads last week: 264
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 23 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on July 27, 2009
Debrief offers users a fast way to take down notes and stay on top of their ideas. With its simple layout and directions, this tool will find many fans.
The program's interface may initially worry some, but they will soon discover most of the icons crowding the top of this program are unnecessary. A few minutes of experimenting and clicking around will serve the user much better than a trip to the Help file, though it's available. The program functions primarily as a note-taker. Users click on an icon to write a note and treat it like a word processor (the program is complete with options to change font, color and other text options). The program's biggest asset is its ability to catalog these notes with simple files. Organized like a file tree, users create and save their notes in Personal, Business, or customized folders. The second component of the program is a calendar, which shows what notes are happening on each day. While we would have liked to see an alarm system, this is still a fairly good way to get a glimpse of your daily life. The program's best special feature is its ability to run off reports. Users can see all their personal or business notes run off, or can have specific days filtered into the report.
While the program initially appears cluttered, we found this freeware program to be an excellent tool for those trying to keep their lives simple and organized.
Publisher's description
From Idealign :Debrief manages notes for ideas, journals, tasks, contacts, issues, meetings, changes, risks, decisions, milestones, research, and planning. Notes, folders, and calendars are handled intuitively for organizing work. It emulates spiral notebooks, file folders, work in progress, reference material, and action items. The note card view lets users rearrange the notes in any order. The calendar view can gather material for status reports and reviews. End notes can be produced for publications. Debrief can handle multiple notebooks to manage work, career, studies, and personal life.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.3 includes system changes (e.g. personal preferences move to configuration files), usability enhancements (e.g. changes sort order in some views), and installation changes to align with the portable version.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 23 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Debrief 2.3
Cons: - for additonal folders, calendar mode, etc., ya gotta pay to play...
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Debrief 2.3
"Great software ruined by...."
Pros: This program works in Vista, and is very stable.
Cons: Too much work to get into it. I understand that there is a paid version of the software license, but I don't want to hear about it every time I go to view my schedule. It's like a three step process just to get into it only to have it lock you out if you forget to register it..
I eventually ended up not using this and downloading something else. If you offer something for free you should just do it instead of shaking your customers down for cash everytime the go to use your software. I'd rather just download something that had banner ad's built into it than deal with this software.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Debrief 2.3
Pros: I've tried many notes products and this is the one. The more I use it, the more features I keep finding. It's awesome what this thing does for me at work now, organizing all my notes, meetings, project information, plans, web links, etc.
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Version: Debrief 2.3
Pros: It is easy to user and it has a backup feature.
Cons: Hard to get into?? what are you an idiot?
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Version: Debrief 2.3
"'Debrief Notes'- Very impressive, for FREE, my Regards to the developer!"
Pros: In my view, 'Debrief Notes' is a very economical and USEFUL program, for $ZERO, just compare prices, like Microsofts Office [OneNote] round AU$150.-Wake up al you Nerds! eckart R. Sydney NSW Australia
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