- the goddess who fell in love with Theseus and
helped him by providing a magic sword and ball of thread
so that he could easily find his way.
That's what this off-beat, creative invention of the OpenSoft
programmers team does for it's users. Like the magic sword it
allows users to cut through the clutter of all the data
available to us in this information age.
Ariadne permits you, the user, to gather any data type, put
it into any order or group that works for you: on-line, off-line - from the internet or from your system.
So what is it?
Part of it is a tabbed IE compatible browser overlay with
built in pop up window protection. And it has separate
'Desktop', 'Calendar' & 'History' windows -- all accessible
by short cut keys or single mouse clicks.
It offers a calendar of appointments & daily journal notes &
comments
It can be a list of internet bookmarks stored & organized in
outline forms as you wish, be it URL links or off line
pages, files & folders. And you can add your comments to any
of these items.
It allows you to create a list of ToDo's & prioritize them
graphically
It allows you to build & maintain a customized address book
in a form or table format of your choice. You can import &
export it to common file types
It can call your default email client for easy emailing of
Ariadne data.
It stores your internet history & in a separate list it
stores & displays your Ariadne activities by date.
It can save, format & export text in rtf, html or ASCII txt.
It is an 'explorer' for your system's files & folders.
It easily captures & stores graphics from the internet.
It is the dual search engine: servicing both your own local
data & parallel internet searches using multiple engines of
your choice simultaneously
It allows password protection for specific files or folders
You can easily create uncluttered 1 or 2 key links to your
favorite external programs or sites.
It categorizes your information by "grep" or type from
"particle" to duplicate items, and allows search for
individual items.
It knows how many items you have in each table or form & can
identify duplicate items for deletion.
It can archive, purge, export or print your data to html,
txt, csv or Ariadne 'tad' formats.
All data types can be stored in folders, sorting boxes or
lists.
Information can be represented in outlines, custom forms or
tables.
Information can be moved, copied, sorted, formatted &
searched by the usual criteria but also by fonts, colors,
type, dates of creation or modification & priority.
Any item can be assigned a 'ToDo' function which
automatically rolls over until marked done.
Any item can be emphasized by accelerator notation & any
item can be identified with an icon of your choice. [By the
way, you can build your own icon library]. These icons also
double as action keys to find & open any item in your
desktop with a single click.
It allows you to choose your font, to color or highlight it
with the color of your choice.
Comments & random notes can be attached to any item or
appointment so you can take telephone or appointment notes.
Scheduling and time sensitive comments can be viewed in
daily, weekly, bi weekly & monthly formats.
Your calendar week can start on Sun or Mon, your day can
begin at 12:01am or 8am or any time in between, your
appointment durations can be set by default & pop up alarms
to remind you of upcoming events are simple as pie to set.
Date & Time formats are fully customizable.
All data is backed up automatically according to user
preferences, or manually, or both & the data's integrity is
automatically checked.
Navigation through all this data is amazingly nimble &
logical, either by menu or keyboard shortcuts.
What else can Ariadne do for you?
What would you like it do?
Contact us by clicking
here. If Ariadne doesn't do it already we'll seriously consider your suggestions.
Sincerely,
The OpenSoft Team.