That's it, Noteman is now open source - a tool for taking notes, sorting them by categories; designed for quick and easy access to the collected information.
This is a program I wrote some years ago; before any kind of formal education in programming - see the details in the sections that will follow.
At its time it was pretty successful, I relied on it, and a couple of my friends still use it (it has been more than 7 years). I promised I would release updates, but somehow I never had the time to actually do that.
Here is the program itself - download Noteman 4.0, there is a readme in the archive, with a detailed description of what it does, what the features are, and how they are used.
Some stuff about the feature set (from the fine manual):
NoteMan v4 (tLPT) The Lazy Ppl's Tool (tm), features
- As many note-windows as you wish
- Custom colors for each tab in the window
- Customizing Hotkeys
- Beep @ sharp hour
- Auto-add to registry (if neccessary)
- Configuration in ini-file
- Auto-Calculate form size and position and write the values in the ini (also automatically)
- Auto-Save the notes
- Icon in the systray that offers control of the program
- 15 TimeReminders (see Reminders in pop-up)
- Custom actions for TimeReminders, Shutdown PC added. works in 2k as well
- unlimited number of DayReminders (via ini)
- Install/Uninstall using command line params
Disable/Enable
- hotkey usage
- dayreminders
- wordwrapping
- tabs
- text centering
Changing
- Font type
- Font size
- Color of the text (in RGB)
- Color of the background (in RGB)
- Form Size
- Form Location
- Primary and secondary hotkeys
- TimeFormat mask
It also comes with a nifty feature that allowed me to use free dial up internet from Relsoft (and other providers); they had a free login/name that you could use for 15 minutes if you dialed precisely at a sharp hour. If you call and someone else made it ahead of you - tough luck. With Noteman's help I was able to log in almost all the time - the program renders the exact system time in the top left corner (above all other windows), and I had a prototype version that would tell my dialing program to start dialing at SharpHour-delta (delta is how long it took my modem to wait for tone, dial, connect, and perform authentication). Ah, the memories... My dad once removed the modem from the computer because the phone-bill exceeded the boundaries of common sense :-)
Programmers, read on to find out why this is an example of "how not to write software", how to get hold of the source code, how to compile it, and so on.
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