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My Notes Keeper promises to help users stay organized by collecting the little bits of information we need to keep around but have a tendency to misplace. This program combines several useful tools, but offers nothing new.
My Notes Keeper has a very basic interface that, while cluttered with buttons and options, should not be a difficult to learn. It looks like a version of Microsoft Word, with some added options that most users will immediately recognize. The center holds a word-processing screen with familiar icons for saving, editing, and customizing the text. The biggest change is a file tree along the left-hand side of the screen. Along the way, users can enter any data they please, save it, and easily retrieve it, thanks to the file tree. Tabs lead to specific items, like contact and to-do lists. Both use the text-editing program for creating these, but the organization is nice.
We were happy with the results this program produced, but weren't sure it would meet the needs of every user. This program functions much like Word or other text editors, and most users will already have a program of that type. The file tree is also found in Windows Explorer. Having it built in to the word-processing program is slightly more convenient, but certainly not revolutionary. There's a standard 30-day trial, so users can see if the combination of the file tree, tabs, and text editor does keep them more organized and is worth paying for.
Publisher's Description
From Wpg Computing:
My Notes Keeper is a free-form notes or outliner application. It allows you to store all of your notes and information in an easy-to-use outline, where you can quickly find what you need. Uses of My Notes Keeper lists knowledge base, e-Book, to do list, customer data management, contact manager, notes manager, document manager, address book, phone book, password keeper, and photo album. Text editor has text and paragraph editing functions (font, color, size, background color, tables, images, and symbols).
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"Couldn't install. No customer service"
Version: My Notes Keeper 2.5.2
Pros
Why do I have to enter 10 characters. There's only four characters in "none".
Cons
Could not install because installation files were corrupted. I tried both their download sites. That's ok, but I'm giving them 1 star for the lack of customer service. I emailed them at both available addresses but my emails were rejected because they have spam filters set up. I guess they don't want new customers.
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"It Really is a Notes Keeper; Not a "Mylifeorganizer""
Version: My Notes Keeper 2.5.2
Pros
Short learning curve, easy to use, handy, cheap, good users forum... and never fails. I haven't used it just twice, but for more than a year, so I do know it possitively.
Cons
The only thing that I don't like (about many applications; not only My Notes Keeper) is that it must be uninstalled and re-installed every time there's a new update.
Summary
Before buying My Notes Keeper I checked a lot of different similar apps, read their user and editor reviews in many reputed download and magazines sites and tested a couple of them (obviously the best ones). What I liked most of My Notes Keeper was it's simplicity (not too many features) What I like most of it now is that it never fails. I recommend this software to everybody.
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"Fantastic. Amazing. You need it."
Version: My Notes Keeper 2.2.4
Pros
Allows you to store information with unlimited tree structure. I have everything about my house, computers, vehicles, down to whatever level of detail I need. Creates order from chaos.
Cons
The only con is that some people in the world do not use MyNotesKeeper, and we are all poorer for that.
Summary
Learn it. Live it. Love it.
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"Everything you'd expect from a rock-solid note-taker!"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.9.9 build 1205
Pros
Intuitive and flexible tree structure.
Multiple tabs per note.Cons
Some glitches with saving some tree nodes.
Summary
This one is a keeper! I've been testing some PIMs lately and it looks like I'll be doing my note keeping though this great little app.
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"One of the best that I have found"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.9.9 build 1205
Pros
I like just about everything about it.
Cons
None that I can think of.
Summary
I purchased my copy a over a year ago. The program has been rock solid, no porblems at all. I use it for everything from lists to medium "flat-file" databases. Excellent program and highly recommended. Includes a separate reader program if you want to limit the database to just reading.
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"Great, inexpensive program to organize all your notes!"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.9 build 1021
Pros
I wanted to ogranize all my Computer Tech notes in a digital format. With this program I can type in notes, or attach pictures, pdf's, mht web files, etc. Now I can put it all together in one ebook and take it along on a flash drive. Inexpensive!
Cons
You have to dig to find out how to use some of the features. The help file only helps to a point. A well done Users Guide would be a great asset to this program.
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"its the best out of many"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.6 build 605
Pros
I have been looking for a notetake for class and finally settled on this one. After trying quite a few programs (evernote, myinfo, treepad, etc) I am going with this one. It would take too long to explain why this program seems better, but it is defnitely worth a try.
1) The formatting is good (much better than treepad). I use a take off on the cornel method for note taking which means I use tables to split the writing space up. I have had a horrible time finding a program to do this. Treepad wouldn't let me change indents or outline styles within a table cell - with this program I can.
2) You can customize all of the shortcuts (unlike all of the other programs). This is a huge deal for me - probably the best thing about the program - for instance when I want to indent, add bullets, numbers, etc, I don't want to click a stupid button everytime I have a new line of info. This program let me define all of that.
3) This program has the typical tree outline (with icons if you want) PLUS you can have tabs at the top. I am using this for classes at the moment with my notes in the trees, but I think I am going to use a different file for each class. Then my taps would be more like real notebooks, outside reading, class notes, outlines, etc.
3) This program seems to be a bit faster than the others. For instance I have important (all at one) about 15 course outlines from word which were each from 35-100 pages long. Now I can click on each seperate note (each containing an outline) and it is instantly there - the other programs seem to hang up.
Cons
The single weak spot of this program is the search functionality. Its not that its poor - its as good as many other programs, but it could be better. That said it seems like the company is activly producing the program. Yet from the countless hours I spent evaluating simular versions they are way ahead....at least for my use.
Finally just to save some others time:
Myinfo doesn't have spell check - this program does
Treepad is okay but its formatting sucks - this program seems fine
Evernote is cool but if you try to print all your notes it arranges them by date - so you may want to stick to a typical tree type program
TexNotes is good but it started to blank as I filled it up with information
Keynote seemed great but you can't use tables (also an issue w/ evernote unless you create them in word and copy them over)
The Journal is very simular to this program but it is extreamly slow - those outlines I was talking about, the program hesitated for a couple seconds before displaying them
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"tried 6 similar programs, this is my favorite"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.4
Pros
-The company isn't just out to make a buck, they seem to enjoy working on this piece of software. That's always a good sign that the little details will be right. The greedy companies ignore the little details and hope you don't notice them until after you've paid them. Not here.
-Completely customizable toolbars. Add or remove icons, rearrange them, and add seperators.
-The editor is very similar to Microsoft Word.
-In addition to having multiple roots for each tree, you can have multiple trees layed out as tabs.
-Fast and efficient, won't bog down your computer and, in the exception of a bug, it won't stop responding.
-THE PROGRAMMERS ARE VERY ACCESABLE. THEY WILL OFTEN IMPLIMENT A FEATURE REQUEST OR BUG FIX IN DAYS. IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE JUST ASK THEM AND THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU.
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"perfect."
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.0.8
Pros
use friendly,power function.
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"this is a terrific software"
Version: My Notes Keeper 1.0.8
Pros
its function is so fine that i cannot wait to recommend it to our friends.i think this soft is very fitful to the ones who work at documents or relative things.it is terrific.
Cons
nothing much.we should use positive viewpoint for it,for it is juet developed by a amateur.
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