writers software (3 products)

Book Writer 2.00.2 (Shareware, $34.95)

Book Writer is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP writing environment for creative writers. To give the writer a central hold on a project of multiple chapters, Book Writer provides a Project Manager and a Project Commander. With these, the project is more like a book or manuscript held in the hand than a number of files scattered in the dark of electronic space. Book Writer provides visual interfaces to manipulate a project's files by dragging or clicking book and chapter icons. Book Writer can copy, move, and zip all or selected files in the project all at once. Book Writer can search all files in a project, replace text in all project files, index the project for instant text retrieval, and move from file to file to show the findings. Advanced search features include four ways to search files: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. Instantly find all the lines in your project where you mentioned a particular name, or any word, and move fr

Finders Keepers 2.02.2 (Shareware, $29.00)

Finders Keepers(tm) can search files, replace text, index entire hard drives for instant text retrieval, view or launch any found files, zip found files, and edit the found ASCII text files. Search files 4 ways: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. View, edit, or launch found files 6 ways, e.g., by associated programs. An ASCII text editor and a binary-file viewer are built in. With these, click on navigator buttons to jump from finding to finding for quick file or document examination. Copy, move, or delete found files. Save your results to disk for future reference. Replace text safely across multiple files and folders. Choose from 4 levels of confirmation, including word by word. Changed files are backed up automatically. You can replace by regular expressions. You can use a password to disable replace functions for risky users, such as kids or new users. Index selected files or your entire hard drive to find a word with

Idea Tracker 2.02 (Shareware, $21.95)

Idea Tracker offers an effective solution for writers and anyone else wishing to keep track of their ideas, thoughts and notes. It allows the user to replace or augment their existing system. Fully customizable with multi-database feature, allowing the user to keep track of virtually anything, from story ideas, poetry and writing markets to meeting minutes and recipes. It is an organizing and tracking tool to meet a multitude of needs. Offers an effective method to sort, filter, and print ideas. Ready to run immediately after installing or customizable to allow the user to decide how to display their ideas. It allows the user to organize their ideas (with up to two levels of categorization), and to choose what fields to save data in. Thanks to customizable databases, the user is free to track ideas in many different ways. Ideas can be kept in one database or broken into logical groupings, such as notes on a single project.