Oh so sweet. My favorite catch-all notepad and organizer, VoodooPad, has been updated to version 3.0 today. I fell in love with VoodooPad about two years ago when I started a new job and needed to start keeping track of a huge variety of different kinds of information. I started dumping everything I could into the program--scraps of technical support information, dates and details of computer repairs, website URL's, coworkers' phone extensions, serial numbers. I didn't really know right away if VoodooPad was going to help keep all this stuff organized, but after awhile I noticed that I started to rely on the software to track down that information that otherwise would have been misplaced. I also started to notice connections between information that I might not have otherwise made.VoodooPad sports a number of new features including tabs, searching improvements, support for big documents, and new filetype embedding. There's also support for Mac OS X's PDF framework so you can print a PDF straight into VoodooPad.
VoodooPad Pro is a new edition to the family that has several advanced options for power-users such as encryption, triggers, metadata inclusion, and a built-in web server to facilitate collaboration between VoodooPad users.
Other programs, like Yojimbo, have popped up recently to serve as the same kind of catch-all, but I remain faithful to VoodooPad, my first love. It saved me from the growing rat's nest that was StickyBrain. Mojo, indeed.
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7-05-2006 @ 5:20PM
look said...
it's a very nice app but every 0.5 upgrade another 20$!!! come on. it's not an issue for me but what about the students..???
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7-05-2006 @ 6:23PM
Gus Mueller said...
look: I think this upgrade is worth it. And it's actually been a very long time since I charged an upgrade price. 19 months ago as a mater of fact- back in Dec of 2004 for VoodooPad 2.0. Since then there's been 2 major and 8 minor releases, all free. And $9.95 isn't that much :)
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7-06-2006 @ 5:43AM
Sun An said...
yojimbo? man, have you seen PROCESS http://www.jumsoft.com/process/ ?
its pretty amazing, the "indenting" feature is just like what voodoo pad would do for "linking",
and there is a neat % tracker
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7-07-2006 @ 1:11AM
Gene said...
PROCESS? Yes I have seen it and bought it and am still waiting after over a month to find out why the program is bombing so often. Still no word from jumsoft. I'll still with Voodoopad, thank you.
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7-07-2006 @ 12:12PM
look said...
jumsoft are a useless company.
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7-01-2007 @ 5:48PM
Mark said...
I have all my dissertation notes in VoodooPad and the upgrade was a no-brainer for me. I would've paid $9.95 for the tab feature alone. Great job, Gus.
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