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Comparison of Features

Feature

Info Select

Zoot

Text collection Paste from clipboard
Import from text file
Paste from clipboard
Import from text file
Auto-clip: automatically store any items added to the Clipboard to a selected Notebook
Text storage and organization Text contained in notes
Notes contained in Topics or in File-Topics
File-topics are separate .WD2 files
Topics can be contained in other topics
All topics are open and available when Info Select is run
File Topics can be optionally open or closed
Text contained in notes
Notes contained in Folders
Folders contained in Libraries
Each library is a separate .ZOT file
One or more libraries can be open at a time
Item display Topics and titles to the left, items to the right Topics are collapsible Several options
Standard display: Folders to the left, note titles to the right, text in window at bottom
no collapsibility of Folders
Text format Allows any font, color, size to be used
can be applied to selection or entire item
One font, color, size for all notes
no changes allowed
different note editors do allow for different font,
but no changes within a note
Text manipulation Standard Windows cut and paste Standard Windows cut and paste
Zooter: instantly copy selected contents or entire item to another Windows application
Text printing Prints items and titles; no other options A number of formatting options, including headers and footers and printing in a font different from the display font
Other features Templates
Calendar
Database style forms
A number of additional features, including:
file types with icons
auto-collection of URLs and e-mail addresses
"trails" to revisit recently-selected libraries, directories, web sites, e-mail addresses, printing options, search options, etc.
auto-assign scripting language
Agent X for file management and file viewing
intelligent auto-titles for clipped or imported items
imports with delimiters
Text retrieval Search finds items by text matching or fuzzy searching, date searching, size of item
displays result as filtered original list
Search finds items by text matching only
displays result in a new Notebook
abstract search collects surrounding text for in-context viewing

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