The Guide
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README for The Guide, release 2.0.
The Guide is a tree-based information management tool. It lets you to organize information as nodes in a tree. The information itself is maintained as rich text. It is a two-pane, rich-text outliner.
The Guide lives at http://theguide.sourceforge.net/. Details of the latest version (and much more) can be found here.
List of changes in each released version of The Guide is listed in the file named "CHANGES". They are also available online (in a nicer format) at: http://theguide.sourceforge.net/release.html.
The Guide is developed and distributed under the "Apache License 2.0", an OSI-approved open source license. For full license text, please see the file named "LICENSE", or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
The Guide comes in a Microsoft Installer (.msi) package. This can be easily installed (and uninstalled). For those who are allergic to installers, the zipped binaries are also available, which can be just unpacked into a directory.
To use The Guide in a portable manner (to carry around in USB drives for e.g.), download the zipped binaries, edit the file "guide.ini" in a text editor, replacing the line "portable=0" with "portable=1". Guide will use the ini file to store all preferences/settings and not touch the registry at all.
Your feedback, comments and suggestions are more welcome. Please send them to mdevan@users.sourceforge.net, or see http://theguide.sourceforge.net/about.html.