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Parsnips is a new breed of Personal Information Manager... If you're like most people, you constantly come across useful bits of information throughout the day while using your computer.
It may come from a web site, e-mail, chat sessions, usenet news
articles or just files that you have been sent. Parsnips now gives
you a place to store all these bits of useful text and easily find them later.
Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips automatically creates an "item" for the information, and saves it away for later
Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips automatically creates an "item" for the information, and saves it away for later
What's New
Version 1.5:
- Improved the HTML parser that is used for extracting text from web pages. Now captured web pages no longer show javascript or style sheet information in the text. Also improved error handling so you don't get extraneous ">" characters in the text.
- Implemented Services on Mac OS X. You can now use the Services menu in another application to send the application's selection to Parsnips.
- Added "Tip Windows" that are shown before executing certain non-obvious commands. These tips explain a bit about what the command does. Each tip window had a checkbox to prevent it from being shown again.
- Better "Quick Start" information is now displayed in the Results Pane when there are no items in the database.
- New preference for setting the main window's background color. By default Parsnips now has a non-standard background coloe. You can turn this off in the Preferences.
- In previous versions, if you had an item you were editing then and did an operation that diplayed a new item, you would be shown a dialog with choices to Cancel or Discard Changes. in the new version you are also given the option of saving the changes before proceeding.
- In previous versions, many operations such as saving or deleting an item would revert you to showing all items. Now we try to keep the current search parameters and just upate the changed item.
- You can now Command-click a file:// URL in the text of the Display Pane to have it opened by the application that natively handles that file type. Previously his only worked for http:// based URLs.
- When requesting web pages, the user-agent is now set to "Parsnips".
- Changed the wording and button order in the License dialog to be more clear.
- If you had an unsaved change to an item and then clicked a different item (or did a search), you are to there are unsaved changes. If you cancel and then save the changes, you will get two copies of the item, one before the save and one afterwards. This bug has been fixed.
- Fixed problem where non-html files referenced via HTTP always had the "text" extracted from them even if they were binary files.
- Eliminated some screen flashing that occured when paging up and down through the results list.
- When running under Mac OS X 10.2.x, fixed a problem where a "phantom window" was shown when the main windows was closed.
- When running under Mac OS X 10.2.x, we no longer use a "Brushed Metal" main window type.
Version 1.5:
- Improved the HTML parser that is used for extracting text from web pages. Now captured web pages no longer show javascript or style sheet information in the text. Also improved error handling so you don't get extraneous ">" characters in the text.
- Implemented Services on Mac OS X. You can now use the Services menu in another application to send the more...
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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| Downloads:4,177 |
| Version Downloads:1,993 |
| Type:Business : Personal Info Managers |
| License:Demo |
| Date:23 Jun 2005 |
| Platform:PPC |
| Price: $27.00 |
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Parsnips is a new breed of Personal Information Manager... If you're like most people, you constantly come across useful bits of information throughout the day while using your computer.
It may come from a web site, e-mail, chat sessions, usenet news
articles or just files that you have been sent. Parsnips now gives
you a place to store all these bits of useful text and easily find them later.
Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips automatically creates an "item" for the information, and saves it away for later retrieval. You can also give the item a title, an associated URL or assign keywords to it. Later, when you want to find that information again, you can search for it using Parsnips powerful search mechanism. With Parnisps you can:
Parsnips can keep track of more than text. If you drag and drop any sort of file onto Parsnips, it will create an item for it and record the file's location on your computer. You can add keywords for the item or add comments about it. Later you can easily locate and open the non-text file by searching in the keywords or comments.
Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips automatically creates an "item" for the information, and saves it away for later retrieval. You can also give the item a title, an associated URL or assign keywords to it. Later, when you want to find that information again, you can search for it using Parsnips powerful search mechanism. With Parnisps you can:
- find all items containing specific words or boolean combinations of words in either the title or the main body of text.
- find items containing one or more keywords you have attached to them.
- find all items created in the past day, week, month, year, or any arbitrary range of dates.
Parsnips can keep track of more than text. If you drag and drop any sort of file onto Parsnips, it will create an item for it and record the file's location on your computer. You can add keywords for the item or add comments about it. Later you can easily locate and open the non-text file by searching in the keywords or comments.
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Anonymous reviewed on 16 Feb 2005
I have no problem with user interface (improved in this edition, with more color) or Java speed, and the ability to transfer databases between MAC and WIN platforms while remaining in the same program is as always the strong point of Parsnips.
I recommend this program particularly along with hierarchical organizers such as DevonNote or Jree (opensource, also Java, and free). You can't ask for more help with collecting bits of information, large or small.
Anonymous reviewed on 13 Dec 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 11 Nov 2004
If you have specific suggestions to improve the layout (or any other aspect of the program), I would be happy to here them.
Bill
Anonymous reviewed on 26 Oct 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 20 Sep 2004
My only complaint is that it, like many apps written in Java, is somewhat ugly on the Mac. But this is something that the developer hopes to address.
Anonymous reviewed on 14 Sep 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 14 Sep 2004
Nuggets fits nicely into the array, a little different from all the others, but plugging a gap I didn't quite know was there. (It works nicely as a supplement to Jotz, since you can replace text -- Jotz lacks that ability.)
Like DevonNote, it sets up a single database, capturing and indexing files independent of the source (i.e, the original file, once indexed, can be erased). Like Jotz, it has a variety of search parameters, and input is mainly by way of drag'n'drop (will also import files or folders by menu). It's a kind of more sophisticated MaMemo, allowing two or three indexing subcategories and exporting according to them.
Like HogsBay (the old one) it exports textfiles back into a folder, allowing you to restructure your original and re-import.
I have yet to find anything bad about the 0.6, even though it's beta. (The Windows version, unfortunately, depends on Java, which won't install properly on my Powerbook under Virtual PC -- users with dual allegiances, beware!)
One or two small features could still be added by 1.0 or 2.0, but on the whole it's complete and satisfactory as is. (Oh yes, those who are still using Jaguar should find it nice not to be forced to move on to Panther.)
Congratulations all around for a neat product.
Thanks for your nice review. I'm curious about the single star you gave for "Stability". Did you have any problems with the program crashing or failing in some way?
I would also be happy to hear any suggestions for improvements. You can either post them here or use the "Sent Comment/Suggestion" menu command in Nuggets.