ConnectedText Features
User interface
- Multiple workspaces open at same time, with tabbed browsing (see screen shot)
- Several views can be docked
- Full support of Unicode
- Store all topic revisions, each with own notes
- Use of Cascading Style Sheets to render text
- Navigator to show topic relationship
- Full text search with boolean, phrase and proximity operators. Queries can be saved for latter use
- Relevance scoring for full text search results
- Complete history navigation
- Built-in web browser (see screen shot)
- Plugin architecture
- OLE Automation
- Editor supports folding, wordwrap, drag and drop.
- Bookmark manager for topics
- Minimization to system tray
- Configuration of keyboard shortcuts
- Toolbar customization
- Multiple desktop layouts can be used
- Clipboard catcher
- Complete Outline system
- Multi language: English, Portuguese, Danish, Italian and German
Wiki features
- Automatic creation of table of contents for a topic
- Tables and bulleted lists
- Dictionary lists
- Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP images, with resizing and positioning (see screen shot)
- Support for Flash animations and AVI, MP4, WMV and MPEG movies.
- Five levels of headers which can be collapsed/expanded.
- Text effects: bold, italic, underwrite, strike through, etc
- Paragraph indenting
- URL, mail and file linking
- Allows inclusion of a topic inside other, even from other projects
- Links between projects
- Anchor links
- Automatic URL detection
- Special category topics
- Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX (see screen shot)
- Rename or delete any topic with automatic change of references
- Inline styles to improve text appearance
- Topics can have an associated icon
- Topics can be locked to prevent editing
- Topics can be redirected
- Include information dynamically from external sources using plugins
- Topic templates can be created
- Plugins for chart and graph generation (see screen shot).
- Allows inclusion of HTML code inside topics
- Auto-link topic
- Semantic extensions for topic attributes
- Automatica cross-reference of properties and attributes
- Inclusion of topic attributes enabling the creation of Infoboxes
- Macros for inclusion
- Auto-backup
Editor
- Completion proposal for topic names, categories, properties, images and scripts (see screen shot)
- Support proportional and fixed fonts
- Accept URL, file, image and text drag and drop
- Syntax highlighter
- Search and replace
- Spell checker
- Folding
- Auto save
- Special paste to create a new topic
- Allows copy of images from browsers or other sources using drag and drop
- Allows transfer of topics between projects using drag and drop
- Images can be pasted from Clipboard
- Global Find/Replace
Outline
- Support all standard outline operations
- Incremental search
- Search for any part of the text
- Unlimited Hoist
- Read OPML, Text and FreeMind files
- Export to OPML, HTML, XML, Text and FreeMind format
- Items can be linked to any topic
Tools
- Export topics to Text, HTML Help, HTML and XML
- Import topics from Text, HTML, XML and RTF files
- See all topics that links to the current topic
- Compare any two revisions (see screen shot)
- Topic analysis to help figure out linking problems
- History of topic changes
- Category tree view which shows the hierarchy of categories
- Image and File manager
- Google and Wikipedia search
- Revisions removal tool which removes unnecessary revisions based in a criteria
- Backup, restore and shrink functions to manage projects
- Supports ActiveScripting. Write scritps to automate tasks in ConnectedText using your favotire language: VBScript, Javascript, Perl, Python, TCL or Ruby.
Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2000, 2003 and XP (see requirements in download page).
ConnectedText has been tested on all modern versions of the Windows operating system. It does not need any web server or application server. Requires Internet Explorer 5 or newer.