Software : Utilites : Backup Managers : Coolbase
Manufacturer : Argentum
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Argentum™ Coolbase is a versatile information manager that can keep any kind of information, such as text, numbers, links, pictures and music, in a tree outline database.
Argentum Coolbase can serve you as a note taker, a diary keeper, a recipe book, a personal contact list, a link organizer, a photo album, a text editor, and more. All these are nicely fit into one combined product that will make your life a lot easier. Save your money buying it all in one!
With Argentum Coolbase you will be able to seamlessly organize information of any type, construct your own dendritic structures, attach descriptions, use a powerful search, publish your data using HTML, XML and CSV formats to share it with your friends, colleagues, and anyone who could be interested in it.
Argentum Coolbase is a unique tree-like database software that can store any kind of information you want to organize, such as text, numbers, links, pictures, music and even binary files. All that information, including binary content, is stored in a tree-structured database.
Many unique features make Coolbase stand out from other similar programs. Great design rendered Coolbase great flexibility in handling a vast amount of daily computing tasks. For example, Coolbase can be used as a note taker, a diary keeper, a recipe book, a project organizer, a personal contact list, a link organizer, a photo album, a text editor, and much more!
All these are nicely fit into one combined program that will make your life a lot easier. The tree structured freeform database is ideal to store random information. Coolbase also comes with powerful search and reporting capabilities.
Who needs Coolbase data management capabilities?
Coolbase interface is quite similar to the Windows Explorer interface and is therefore easy to learn and navigate. The main window, called explorer, is used to browse and alter trees or databases. It is divided into three resizable panes, with status bar at the bottom, and title bar on the top.
Every item, either on the left or the bottom or the top pane has its own pop-up menu. If you right-click it, a menu will show up by it, displaying all the options available over the selected item.
In Coolbase you primarily work with trees full of items. Item is a foundational element of the tree. You can browse items in either the left pane or the bottom pane. It's up to you how to organize the information but majority of editing capabilities are only available from the bottom pane.
Let's learn how to build trees. First move to the bottom list pane. Here you will be able to build your own data structures by adding, deleting, moving and editing items.
To add a new item use Ins key or a command from the menu. To delete an item or a groups of items, first select what you want to delete in the bottom pane, then use Del key or a corresponding command from the menu. You can move items by dragging and dropping them between the bottom list pane and the left tree pane.
The next important step you will need to make after adding items to the tree is populating those items with actual information. You can attach many kinds of information to the items by using so-called properties.
Besides structural modifications i. e. adding, deleting, moving items, Coolbase, like any other organizer, lets you fill your databases with actual information. In Coolbase you attach information in the form of properties. Coolbase is unique in supporting a vast amount of property types. You won't find an organizer featuring that degree of flexibility and completeness in handling information. While most of others let you store formatted text and pictures only, Coolbase supports the following rich set of property types to arrange your information:
The summary chart will show you how these properties look like:
To edit properties for a selected item just right-click in the top pane and choose one of the available commands. You may add, remove, and edit properties. Use Alt-E shortcut to quickly switch into edit mode. Save your modifications by using Alt-S shortcut.
Searching for a particular item or property is very easy with Coolbase. To make a query, you should specify a text fragment you want to find. Wildcards can be used: ? - for any single character, * - for any number of characters.
You are able to search for the text fragment in any particular property of your choice. You can also limit your search to only folders and sections.
To start searching, click the Search! button. Items will be displayed immediately as they found. The status bar will display the total number of items found. By double-clicking on any item you'll be switched to the explorer, and the current selection will move to that item. This feature greatly simplifies item locating.
With the publishing feature of Argentum Coolbase you will be able to prepare your catalog for public presentation, publish it to the Internet, send it through e-mail, or print it out and get a hard copy.
Moreover, as many data processing applications support HTML importing nowadays, publishing can also help you if you would ever want to import Coolbase's catalog into your favorite database or spreadsheet application.
Final noteCongratulations! You have completed the tutorial. Now you should be aware of the five basic principles of Argentum Coolbase. It is as simple as one, two, three, four, five:
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The more I play with Argentum Coolbase the more I see its potential for information storage and retrieval. I had, oddly enough, been thinking about designing something in Access for dendritic information storage but thought it would take far to long for my poor programming skills to cobble together. Argentum Coolbase is fast and small which is a pleasant surprise nowadays.
I have been following the development of Argentum Coolbase since the initial release back in June. Even though I'm not a programmer, Coolbase seems to be the information manager of my dreams. Congratulations to your team for developing such a remarkable product! I have never seen such a wonderfully flexible program, and even though I'm not a programmer at all, I get the feeling that the code is exquisite.