The Guide Portable 2.0 has been released. The Guide is a two-pane extrinsic outliner, similar to mindmapping in some ways, designed to help you organize information hierarchically. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.
Features
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).
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
The Guide Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
The Guide Portable is available for immediate download from the The Guide Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Thanks
I wanted to thank Nikhil Bendre for his initial analysis and code work. It's since been rewritten using the PortableApps.com Launcher and updated to the current PA.c Format.
Finally official
Great to see this app go official out of beta... had been using my rough coded launcher for so long... Thanks John
PS : now awaiting portableapps 2 or 2.X
Nikhil Bendre
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Thank you
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Mirroring
I added it in once I saw the comment. Looks like it was a problem between the chair and the keyboard. It should be available within a few minutes.
Edit (10 mins later): It's there now!
CopyPasta
Support has an entry that doesnt make sense:
OFFSITE: RedNotebook Forum
Future of The Guide
When I first saw this, I was thinking that The Guide had been updated, but when I went to their website, I saw that this was the one released in December 08. Not that that is a problem, it's a great program. This is just the updated PAF, I believe. What I found out that was exciting is that someone is working on The Guide v3, and there is a fork called WinGuide. Glad to see that this won't be forgotten.