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Parsnips
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Version
1.2
If you are like most people, you constantly come
across useful bits of information throughout the day
while using your computer. It may come from a web
site, e-mail, chat sessions, usenet news articles, or
just files that you have been sent. Parsnips now
gives you a place to store all these bits of useful
text and easily find them later. Parsnips is a new
breed of Personal Information Manager (PIM)
Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text
you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips
automatically creates an "item" for the information,
and saves it away for later retrieval. You can also
give the item a title, an associated URL, or assign
keywords to it. Later, when you want to find that
information again, you can search for it using
Parsnips powerful search mechanism. With Parsnips you
can:
* find all items containing specific words or
boolean combinations of words in either the title or
the main body of text.
* find items containing one or more keywords you
have attached to them.
* find all items created in the past day, week,
month, year, or any arbitrary range of dates.
Parsnips' search mechanism is similar to the popular
Google® search engine. However in this case you are
searching your personally relevant information rather
than the web at large.
The text for an item doesn't have to come from a pre-
existing source. You can create initially blank items
and type or paste into it whatever text you wish. In
this way Parsnips can serve as a free-form database.
Parsnips can keep track of more than text. If you drag
and drop any sort of file into Parsnips, it will
create an item for it and record the file's location
on your computer. You can add keywords for the item or
add comments about it. Later you can easily locate and
open the non-text file by searching in the keywords or
comments.
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