ConnectedText is a commercial editing application with wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

-like syntax for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. It was designed by Eduardo Mauro. It stores topics in a SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

 database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

, maintaining a complete revision history. It is possible to open several workspaces at the same time. Includes full-text search and a graph navigator which show topic links.

Version 2.0 was released on September 20, 2006.

Version 2.1 was released on March 18, 2007.

Version 3.0 was released on April 6, 2008.

Version 3.1 was released on December 10, 2008.

Version 4.0 was released on September 22, 2009.

Version 5.0 was released on September 21, 2011.

Features

ConnectedText also features:

• Categories
• Outline view
• Semantic extensions
• Special date topics
• Plugins, to include:
  • Python
    Python (programming language)
    Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
    
     scripting
  • Ploticus
    Ploticus
    Ploticus is a free, open source program for producing plots and charts from data. It runs under Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and Win32 systems. Community support is customarily done through Yahoo News Groups...
    
     graphs
  • Graphviz
    Graphviz
    Graphviz is a package of open-source tools initiated by AT&T Labs Research for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools...
    
     charts
  • Sparklines
• Math formulas rendered using LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
  
• Tables
• Drag and drop operations
• Clipboard catcher
• Version comparison
• Ability to display pages in a tree view, similar to Keynote
  Keynote (Tranglos)
  KeyNote is the name of a free notetaking and outlining text editor produced by Tranglos Software for the Windows operating system. Taking the outliner program TreePad as a starting point, it is based on the tree data structure concept, allowing "nodes" in a tree panel to represent separate fields...
  
  
• Support to Asia
  Asia
  Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
  
  n code page
  Code page
  Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language. The term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle Corporation...
  
  s
• Ability to export the entire wiki to plain text, HTML
  HTML
  HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
  
   or Microsoft Compressed HTML Help
  Microsoft Compressed HTML Help
  Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a Microsoft proprietary online help format. It was introduced as the successor to Microsoft WinHelp with the release of Windows 98, and is still supported in Windows 7.-History:...
  
  
• Support scripting languages (Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
  , Perl
  Perl
  Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
  
  , VBScript, etc.)
• Support for USB drives
• Support several languages: English, Portuguese, Danish, Italian and German

External links

• ConnectedText site
• PCWorld review of Connected Text