The Guide evolved from the need to have an application that could organize information and ideas in a hierarchical, tree-like structure. Tree-based structures are frequently employed to manage information through a "divide-and-conquer" approach, wherein each level of the tree represents a further level of specialization of the parent-level topic — the best example of this being a book.
The Guide is an application that allows you create documents "guides" which inherently have a tree which you can modify as you please and text associated with each node of the tree. The text itself is of the rich-text variety, and the editor allows you to modify the style and formatting of the text (fonts, bold, italics etc).
For the initiated, the Guide is a two-pane extrinsic outliner. This concept is similar to mindmapping in some ways.
New Features (since v1.6):
- Proper hyperlinks.
- Link targets are shown in status bar.
- Node expand/collapse state is remembered.
- Upgraded to Rich Edit 5.0.
- Ported to unicode. East european, east asian characters supported fully in tree pane also.
- Foreground and background color of nodes in tree pane can be changed via RMB menu.
- Node colors are used when printing and exporting also.
Changes:
- .gde file format has changed. The Guide v2.x series can read files of both format, and will write out in the new file format.
Alpha Warning!
* The software is in alpha stage. Do not use this version with valuable data!
* It is recommended to use the binary package (.zip file), rather that the installer.