Diary 5.10
I penned down this page as a requirement for one of the freeware sites I wanted to put my program in. The site it belongs to can be found
at diary.moorelife.nl. This page talks about a program that has evolved along with my
habit of keeping a diary. I started out in simple flat ascii text files, but being a programmer I could not continue that way. Diary was
born, and evolved feature by feature until I deemed it ready to show to the world. I believe version 3.7 was the first to venture onto
the big bad web.
I never even bothered with popularity, but a tip from my brother the other day made me have a look at the download statistics. You know how
they say that there's lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics, but it did do me good to find out Diary has been downloaded almost 3000
times during the last six months. If only one in ten actually started using it, I'm still making this program for about 300 people! And 300
of you even downloaded the sources to the program, which might mean there are a few dozen adapted Diaries out there...
For the curious, I've just completed version 5.10:
- A move of the web-related files made a program change unavoidable.
- Editbox for multiline programmable keys.
- Function keys no longer work before password entry.
What do you get when you download Diary right here? No fancy install procedure, but just
a simple ZIP-file. Unpack it in a fresh diary, and have fun! It is completely freeware, and if you want the sources, just download them
here. It has an HTML page as its manual, that shows you how the various elements of
the user interface work together to get you what you want. I am a great proponent of the KISS principle, so that manual is probably something
you will never need. But it's there if all else fails. The program allows you to keep text, up to thirty-six images, and numerous files
attached to the days of the calendar. Both text and images may be encrypted, files remain untouched as yet. Full text search function, with
a double click to the pages that may seem interesting. Up to 16 user-programmable shortcuts, nine of which may have keyboard shortcuts as well.
Each of these can insert a fragment of up to a 1000 characters. Import function to retrieve text from other Diaries, great if you're keeping
a logbook at work, and want to integrate it with your diary at home. It will use timestamps in the text to properly merge the pages together.
For the sake of completeness, here's a table which features links to some of the recent versions, and a paypal link in case you REALLY like it: