When you Paste text into Personal Knowbase from the Windows Clipboard, PK inserts the text in its original format whenever possible. PK can insert text which was unformatted text, HTML text, or Rich Text Format (RTF).
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Exporting Files from Personal Knowbase
Just as you can import information from many external file types into Personal Knowbase, you can also export information out of PK to a number of different file formats. For example, you may need your information in a different format to send it to someone else, to move it to a different software program, or to publish it to the web.
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Importing Files into Personal Knowbase
Do you have lots of little text files scattered around your hard drive? With Personal Knowbase, you can consolidate these files into one data file and index the information from the files so that you can pull up related information easily without scouring your hard drive.
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Productivity Tips: 5 Writing Tips for Everyone
Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, memos or sagas, letters or white papers, here are five tips for improving your writing and completing your project.
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PK Tip: Splitting Data Files
You can split a Personal Knowbase data file using the Export command (from the File menu):
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Get 20% Off for Personal Knowbase’s 20th
Happy 20th Anniversary, Personal Knowbase!
Personal Knowbase 1.0 was released May 4, 1998. We’re celebrating its 20th anniversary with a limited-time 20% discount.
The History of Personal Knowbase
People often ask us how Personal Knowbase first came to exist. In short, it came to exist because we needed such a tool ourselves and couldn’t find other software that fit our needs, so we wrote it.
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Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 2)
Software that stores freeform text information commonly uses three ways to structure data:
- Searching with Straight Text Strings
- Categorizing in Hierarchical Trees
- Indexing with User-specified Keywords
Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 1)
Personal Knowbase uses a system where users specify keywords to index their notes. When you create a new text note in the software, you tag the note with one or more keywords (or key-phrases) which will later provide a fast way to locate that note.
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PK Tip: Selecting Multiple Items in a List
Personal Knowbase, like most standard Windows applications, allows you to highlight multiple items in any list box.
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