Let's talk about note-taking strategies. Some of us do it the old fashioned way, using a trusty old pen and paper. Others jot down notes using word processing applications, others use text editors... but the problem with all of these methods is that none of them provide a way for you to connect all of your information together.
Consider Wikipedia. Within each Wikipedia entry are bunches and bunches of links to other related entries. Together they form a more complete picture of whatever you're researching.
Imagine how empowering it could be to have a Wikipedia for your life!
Now you do! As you use ZuluPad Pro to record all of your important notes, ideas, data snippets, contact information, favorite urls, research topics and so on, the program will automatically create links between your topics, just like a wiki. Imagine jotting an appointment down in ZuluPad Pro, having the name of the person turn into a link like magic, and then clicking on that link to find every little piece of information about them that you've ever entered into ZuluPad Pro!
It's simple to get started with ZuluPad Pro. Whenever you start a new note, just right-click and create a link from it, then continue business as usual. From that point on, whenever that topic (name, place, location, anything) comes up in a note that you're writing, it will instantly be turned into a link back to your original note. No more flipping back and forth between notepad pages, or frantically trying to find an old sticky note that fell behind your desk! All of your information is instantly linked together and immediately accessible.
Using ZuluPad Pro, you'll instantly find your note-taking to be more useful and efficient. You'll be amazed at how much more information you'll retain!
Review Written by Roger Thomasson
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- Link all of your information about specific topics together.
- Take better notes and retain more information.
- Develop your own personal wiki.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows Me, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista
- Buy with BitsDuJour's promotional coupon code and get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase ZuluPad Pro it may be used indefinitely.
- ZuluPad Pro is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use ZuluPad Pro you will need to purchase additional copies.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- License activation isn't required. what's this?
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for the lifetime of the product.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- 30 days return policy.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “One of the reasons I was attracted to ZuluPad was the ability to share my qualitative analyses with colleagues and students for their reviews and suggestions. That is enhanced by the fact that ZuluPad is a no-install portable application and the cross-platform capabilities of .zulu files.
ZuluPad is also useful as a decision-making tool (not just a tool for analyzing how others make decisions), because it's hyperlink approach (rather than hierarchical listing) reflects the non-linear nature of human cognition, judgment and decision-making. Hierarchical lists, as produced by many knowledge management software tools, impose an artificial linearity, hierarchy of priorities and false sense of consistency on decision factors -- although human judgment is usually not linear, priorities are often muddy and subject to changing contexts, and actual decisions are often inconsistent. ZuluPad's hyperlink approach allows one to model actual considerations and not "force" them into some artificial list-based hierarchy.
Best of luck. I look forward to watching what you do with ZuluPad as you continue to develop it.”- R. O.
- “I'm a writer working on a series of novels, and I'm using ZuluPad to outline them.
Normally I use a combination of Notepad documents and handwritten notes to plan out my writing, and have played around with using wiki software to help in this process in the past. I found, however, that setting up and using an online wiki for this task involved far too much work for the benifit that came from it.
ZuluPad, by contrast, is perfect. As simple and as lightweight as NotePad, but with the wonderful wiki features that tempted me in the past. Minimal setup time, no advanced web dev knowledge, no need for online space (or even a net connection at all, which is nice when you're writing while away from an ethernet cable).
I've got pages for each of my charaters, the major plot points, story arcs and the timeline, and all of them pointing to each other. I can, for example, start with the page for the climax, write down the characters that need to be there for it to work, follow the links to the page for one of those characters, and check the links to previous plot point that involves them and make sure that I can get from there to where they need to be next.
It's also easy to add new details to the outline or change ones that no longer fit the changing story without having to have dozens of seperate .txt files open at the same time, so I can spend more time writing and less time looking for my notes.
It's a great little program, and a perfect combination of the simplicity of a basic text editor and the power of an online wiki.”- Korivak
- “Great little piece of software... thanks! Tested it and like it from day 1. Keep up the good work.”- Marco
- “A Zulu Pad Haiku:
zulu pad pro rocksall my notes in one place, linked!now with global search!!!!!
An Ode to Zulu Pad Pro:
Oh, Zulu Pad Pro, where have you been all my life?Before your bright yellow icons came into my life,I was forced into such an unhealthy relationship with notepad.Notepad, never did the things you do for me.Notepad, never kept my topics separate.Notepad, never turned urls into clickable links.Notepad, was not you.”- Durvivorv, ZuluPad forum
