Argentum™ Coolbase is a versatile information manager that can keep any kind of information, such as text, numbers, links, pictures and music, in a tree outline database.
Argentum Coolbase can serve you as a note taker, a diary keeper, a recipe book, a personal contact list, a link organizer, a photo album, a text editor, and more. All these are nicely fit into one combined product that will make your life a lot easier. Save your money buying it all in one!
With Argentum Coolbase you will be able to seamlessly organize information of any type, construct your own dendritic structures, attach descriptions, use a powerful search, publish your data using HTML, XML and CSV formats to share it with your friends, colleagues, and anyone who could be interested in it.
Market Appeal
Who needs Coolbase data management capabilities?
- Anyone who is trying to organize personal data of any kind, like contacts or notes, and is not satisfied by the ordinary organizers available on the market. Try a new generation of organizer - the dendritic organizer.
- Anyone who is interested in or obliged to maintain tree-structured or heterogeneous information. In many aspects Argentum Coolbase can be considered a DBMS system.
- Anyone who likes to play with modern information management solutions. Dendriform storage as well as graph storage is a somewhat modern field of research. Advanced users, scientists, like mathematicians, geographers, physicists, chemists, etc.
All of you are welcome.
You can further familiarize yourself with the basic features and applications of Coolbase.
Exploring
Coolbase interface is quite similar to the Windows Explorer interface and is therefore easy to learn and navigate. The main window, called explorer, is used to browse and alter trees or databases. It is divided into three resizable panes, with status bar at the bottom, and title bar on the top.
- Left tree pane shows you a tree structure. In the left pane you can browse folders and sections. Items can be expanded or collapsed.
- Bottom list pane shows you a list of items from currently selected item in the left pane. Bottom pane can be presented in either of four ways: large icons, small icons, icon list, and details.
- Top property pane displays properties (descriptions) attached to the item, currently selected in the bottom pane.
Every item, either on the left or the bottom or the top pane has its own pop-up menu. If you right-click it, a menu will show up by it, displaying all the options available over the selected item.
Items
In Coolbase you primarily work with trees full of items. Item is a foundational element of the tree. You can browse items in either the left pane or the bottom pane. It's up to you how to organize the information but majority of editing capabilities are only available from the bottom pane.
Let's learn how to build trees. First move to the bottom list pane. Here you will be able to build your own data structures by adding, deleting, moving and editing items.
To add a new item use Ins key or a command from the menu. To delete an item or a groups of items, first select what you want to delete in the bottom pane, then use Del key or a corresponding command from the menu. You can move items by dragging and dropping them between the bottom list pane and the left tree pane.
The next important step you will need to make after adding items to the tree is populating those items with actual information. You can attach many kinds of information to the items by using so-called properties.
Properties
Besides structural modifications i. e. adding, deleting, moving items, Coolbase, like any other organizer, lets you fill your databases with actual information. In Coolbase you attach information in the form of properties. Coolbase is unique in supporting a vast amount of property types. You won't find an organizer featuring that degree of flexibility and completeness in handling information. While most of others let you store formatted text and pictures only, Coolbase supports the following rich set of property types to arrange your information:
- single-line strings and multi-line paragraphs.
- formatted integer numbers of varied size and representation: binary, decimal, hexadecimal.
- formatted float numbers of varied size and precision.
- dates, times, dates and times combined.
- check boxes to store multiple choice selections.
- combo boxes to store exclusive choice.
- binary streams and files to store pictures, music, documents and any binary data.
- links to link to files and folders on your computer, Internet pages, web-sites and e-mails.
Searching
Searching for a particular item or property is very easy with Coolbase. To make a query, you should specify a text fragment you want to find. Wildcards can be used: ? - for any single character, * - for any number of characters.
You are able to search for the text fragment in any particular property of your choice. You can also limit your search to only folders and sections.
To start searching, click the Search! button. Items will be displayed immediately as they found. The status bar will display the total number of items found. By double-clicking on any item you'll be switched to the explorer, and the current selection will move to that item. This feature greatly simplifies item locating.
Publishing
With the publishing feature of Argentum Coolbase you will be able to prepare your catalog for public presentation, publish it to the Internet, send it through e-mail, or print it out and get a hard copy.
Moreover, as many data processing applications support HTML importing nowadays, publishing can also help you if you would ever want to import Coolbase's catalog into your favorite database or spreadsheet application.
