WhizFolders 6.1
Note Taking Software, Outliner and Link Manager for your notes & ideas

I'm only showing the major new features or highlights here. The minor improvements, fixes and known problems are documented in the version specific history given at the end of this document.

Highlights of WhizFolders 6.1

Resolving web links in the pasted text from Internet Explorer

The recent update 6.1.4.2 (June 24, 2008) has a smart improvement on the text copied and pasted from Internet Explorer. It now resolves the links in the pasted text and also prefixes the location that the text is copied from. The location-prefixing feature works for FireFox browser too but the text copying remains limited to plain text due to the inability of FireFox to put RTF data on the clipboard.

This new feature makes it unnecessary to use the previous special menu "Copy plain text for WhizFolders" installed in Internet Explorer. We will remove that menu in the next version unless some user finds specific use of it in addition to the above new feature.

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Thesaurus

WhizFolders now includes an English Thesaurus that you can use in the editor. Just put cursor on a word and click on the menu “Tools–Look up Thesaurus.”

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Portable WhizFolders

Now you can copy WhizFolders to a portable drive and use it from there on any computer. The operation “Copy WhizFolders to a Portable drive” is available on the Tools menu of the main window. This is not a simple copy but involves many other features that the Portable version detects and uses. For example, its main list can handle the documents on the portable disk even if the drive letter changes.

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Much improved electronic book creation

The operation to make a self-running EXE eBook on the Tools menu is completely revamped. It is now called an EWhizBook that you create. Also, it no longer uses the public freeware WhizFolder Viewer product. Instead, WhizFolders uses its own internal module to make the eBook, and it looks quite different now. For example, the following picture shows an EWhizBook that I created out of the tutorial document.

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Desktop shortcut to a particular note

Want to create a desktop shortcut (icon) that opens a WhizFolder document at a particular note? You can do that by selecting that note and using the menu “Tools–-Create Shortcut for the Selected Topic.”

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New View menu with the "Hoisting" feature (only in the Deluxe edition)

Hoisting is a great new feature. It means concentrating on only a few topic trees and hiding the rest.

Here is how it works. You select the top level topic that you want to hoist. Then click on a new View menu as shown in the following picture.

Click on the menu View--Hoist as shown above. As soon as you do that, all other topics are hidden.

Now you can work on the outline of only the topic that you selected. Afterwards, you click on View–-Unhide All to restore the full list of topics.

Other View Menu Related Tips

• For your convenience, the View menu also appears below the topic list:
  
  
  
  
• Hide Selected Topics There is also a different operation available on the same View Menu to "Hide Selected Topics" instead of hoisting (that hides all but selected). See the View menu in the picture above.

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New "View Outline" operation on the View menu (only in the Deluxe edition)

This operation opens a popup window where you can see a list along with outlined text contents in the same list. You can not do any editing or changes in this list but you can print an indented outline from there.

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Office Look & Feel

This option was removed for Windows Vista. Now it is available on the General Options–Desktop page. The option there is actually reverse. You need to switch it off to get an office like blue theme for WhizFolders.

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Copying a Run command to open a note

Some times, you just need to get a run command that you can use in another application to start WhizFolders, positioned on a particular note. You can do that by the "Copy Run Command to Launch this Note" operation on the Tools menu as shown in the picture above. You can simply paste the copied command in the other application that supports executing a run command.

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Live Spelling Check and Live Correction

On the editor, you can now turn on “Live Spelling Check” option as described in “Spelling Checker Options” in the help file. This puts red underlines on the words with spelling errors. You can correct such errors by right-clicking on them. Similarly if Live Correction is on, any word you type is automatically replaced with its auto correction if it is found in the auto correction dictionaries. To put words in auto correct dictionary, you just need to right-click and select the operation “Auto correct” once and then WhizFolders remembers it. This way, you can even quickly type long phrases by assigning them to custom mnemonics in the auto correction dictionaries.

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Popup links

This is an exciting new feature for advanced users only who understand that JUMP type statements can be constructed by typing too. You can change a JUMP or JUMPSHOWTEXT statement to a REF statement by typing over to make that change in the editor. To place the editing cursor in the link you can press Ctrl key when clicking otherwise the link will activate. Once you change a JUMP link to a REF statement, the link works like a popup link so that the target topic opens in a popup window. The following picture shows the example of popup link from the WhizFolders tutorial.

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Version specific history: There are always other minor improvements, new options and fixes not listed on this highlights page. To see a version specific history list of changes, please follow these steps in your copy of WhizFolders 6.1:

• Click on Help--Help Topics to open the help file.
• Go to the New Features topic at the top.
• Follow the web link shown for "Known problems, fixes and new features specific to this particular version."

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Coming back to the web site after a very long time? If you have only used the old WhizFolders 5.6 you may also want to see new features in version 6 as compared to old version 5.6 of WhizFolders:
New features as compared to version 5.6