The WintextCom Personal Information Manager(tm) directory can be applied to a limitless number of situations. Broadly, its use falls into the following categories:
- A simple list. This was the original use, simply storing a straightforward list of telephone numbers for automatic dialling. You can now include many more types of entry. An e-mail address entry allows you to compose a message to the specified address, a web page entry opens the specified page, a Windows command line entry runs the specified program or opens a document, a reading entry opens the specified file in the WTC reader, etc. In addition, you can use special directories to keep diary items, lists of notes or to-do items, and document lists.
- Address book. The directory can be divided into paragraphs, which can themselves be divided into sub-paragraphs, making it possible to maintain a tree structure of your contact information. This includes full street addresses, not just individual items like e-mail addresses. There is a huge array of commands for moving about in and text searching the directory on the directory navigate menu. The directory send menu presents a long list of options for retrieving (pasting) portions of paragraphs or the whole paragraph into Windows documents, e-mail messages, web forms, etc. Directory commands allow you to add, delete, edit, copy and move information, and you can edit the directory in a standard editor if required.
- Database. It would not be true to say that the directory offers database features in the absolute sense of the term. However, the directory can contain basic links to documents and programs, and in contact information these can be inserted as note lines which do not get included in that information when it is printed or pasted into another document. Note lines can be simply notes added within paragraphs, or advanced note lines can provide automatic linkage to documents in the Launchpad work space. This means that you could, specifically, link to an actual database document relating to the information conveniently presented in the directory.
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