Debrief for Windows

User Reviews

• i lost all my files using this program

  gooseman5May 2, 2014

  Pros

  easy to use

  Cons

  it saves automatically even if you dont want to. it is not able to be saved onto a disk if your laptop or pc crashes and you have to redo them. if you reinstall you cant use the files that you saved on a disk and the files you saved on the disk get erased and replaced by the newest version.

  Summary

  if you need to keep your files, dont use this program, you will regret it as i do.

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• A nice note taking program.

  wgood54February 19, 2012

  Pros

  Does exactly what it was designed for. It is a daily notepad that helps organize your thoughts or in my case meetings and action items.

  Cons

  None at this time. Maybe hosting it on a server where you are always using the same data from multiple machines.

  Summary

  Nice piece of software that I found to be extremely easy to use. I plan on the continued use of this software.

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• Good Quick Note Taking Program

  GGoose7November 13, 2011

  Pros

  Automatically saves your work, and it's easy to create a new note.

  Cons

  A little clunky, but still easy to use.

  Summary

  A great program to use if you constantly take notes.

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• Worthless deception

  TD-2288July 3, 2011

  Pros

  None found

  Cons

  This is not free ! Instantly had to upgrade to paid version without any trial.

  Summary

  Deceptive rip off and yet Cnet allows it and recommends it. Wonder how much Cnet is getting to participate in this fraud.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jul 15, 2011<p/>Not that great, too scattered

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• SCAM! SHOULD NOT BE MARKED "FREE"

  onthedotMarch 9, 2011

  Pros

  I won't use software from someone who fraudulently marks their software as free.

  Cons

  Should be marked Free to try. It immediately comes up with "your trial period is about to end", right after install. Result? "Cancel -&gt; Uninstall". I won't even look at it if the publishers are dishonest.

  Summary

  Scamware.

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• NOT FREE! - Don't believe those who tell you it IS.

  ericgoblueDecember 26, 2010

  Pros

  None at all

  Cons

  As soon as you open the program for the first time, you get a pop up telling you it is a TRIAL version only. Delete immediately and move on. What a waste of time. THANKS CNET FOR ENSURING YOUR INFO IS ACCURATE!!

  Summary

  This is the FIRST totally misleading download I've found after many years of using CNET. Nonetheless it's disappointing.

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• Finally, the All-in-One Information Manager

  jlfelderOctober 26, 2010

  Pros

  All my information is in one place

  Cons

  A picture is worth a thousand words, but I can't cut &#38; paste of images into notes. Would be nice to have a footnote type link in a note to a publication in the library.

  Summary

  [Note: I have the Pro version] I can finally keep all my notes and tasks all together on one single place in a coordinated, integrated and organized way. The tasks can be associated with a note so I can take notes as I work to complete a task. Folders and subfolders allow me to keep notes for separate projects organized, yet the calendar view lets me see a summary of all my notes for a given day regardless of what folder they are in. I can even flag a note as being ?highlight? worthy, and then generate a list of notes so flagged for a given range of dates, making my progress reports a snap to put together. One feature I have started to use a lot is the ability to highlight text in one note and drag and drop it on a folder and have it a new note automatically created in the folder that contains the dropped text. This has allowed me to just take notes for the day for all the different projects or other activities all together in a single ?journal? note. Then at the end of the day I just distribute the day?s notes to their proper folders. Clicking on a given day in the calendar view displays all the notes created on that day in a continuous list, so I can still, with a couple clicks, see everything I did on a particular day. One thing I wish that Debrief had, or if it does, I haven?t figured out how to use it, is an ability to put a document (book, article, technical paper, presentation) into the library and then put a hot linked ?footnote? within a note pointing to a particular document. I need to keep track of and document where I get the information and data I use to perform my analysis. It would be very handy to put all my sources in the library and then when I use a value from one of them, to be able to put a link next to the value, or even make the value itself a hyperlink that I could right click on and be able to see which document it came from and open that document if I need to. And then when it came time to write my report/paper I would like the ability to generate a list of all the documents referenced by any note in a given folder or group of folders in common citation format that I could just copy into the references section of my report. Overall, I can?t recommend Debrief more highly.

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• I like having notes in one place.

  mpingoSeptember 29, 2010

  Pros

  Since I'm using the basic format and not the Standard or Pro format, I don't feel I can fairly rate it.

  Cons

  See above.

  Summary

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• Very easy to use, organizes wonderfully and it is free.

  Mia_CSeptember 14, 2010

  Pros

  This is a free product. On the pop-up evaluation window, click "License" then select "Basic edition". Enter your name and presto! No more annoying trial reminders. Auto-saves, light-weight, useful for quick note-taking, does write in other languages.

  Cons

  No spell check (which is actually a plus for me, those red underlines are so annoying in other programs), search is not enabled in Basic.

  Summary

  Highly recommended for note-taking and organizing notes for classes or business. I also use this for recipes and book notes. I have been using some Debrief for almost 3 years now, and still love it. Again, it is FREE.

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• It is not free..!

  tincosterSeptember 4, 2010

  Pros

  I did not bother to install it is not free

  Cons

  Not Free.!

  Summary

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