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Organize Your Notes and URLs
Store and Retrieve Snippets of Text Easily
A new breed of Personal Information Manager
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.
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:
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.
Store and Retrieve Snippets of Text Easily
A new breed of Personal Information Manager
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.
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 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.
What's new in this version:
- Improved the HTML parser that is used for extracting text from web pages. Now captured web pages no longer show javascript or style sheet information in the text. Also improved error handling so you don't get extraneous ">" characters in the text.
- Implemented Services on Mac OS X. You can now use the Services menu in another application to send the application's selection to Parsnips.
- Added "Tip Windows" that are shown before executing certain non-obvious commands. These tips explain a bit about what the command does. Each tip window had a checkbox to prevent it from being shown again.
- Better "Quick Start" information is now displayed in the Results Pane when there are no items in the database.
- New preference for setting the main window's background color. By default Parsnips now has a non-standard background coloe. You can turn this off in the Preferences.
- In previous versions, if you had an item you were editing then and did an operation that diplayed a new item, you would be shown a dialog with choices to Cancel or Discard Changes. in the new version you are also given the option of saving the changes before proceeding.
- In previous versions, many operations such as saving or deleting an item would revert you to showing all items. Now we try to keep the current search parameters and just upate the changed item.
- You can now Command-click a file:// URL in the text of the Display Pane to have it opened by the application that natively handles that file type. Previously his only worked for http:// based URLs.
- When requesting web pages, the user-agent is now set to "Parsnips".
- Changed the wording and button order in the License dialog to be more clear.
- If you had an unsaved change to an item and then clicked a different item (or did a search), you are to there are unsaved changes. If you cancel and then save the changes, you will get two copies of the item, one before the save and one afterwards. This bug has been fixed.
- Fixed problem where non-html files referenced via HTTP always had the "text" extracted from them even if they were binary files.
- Eliminated some screen flashing that occured when paging up and down through the results list.
- When running under Mac OS X 10.2.x, fixed a problem where a "phantom window" was shown when the main windows was closed.
- When running under Mac OS X 10.2.x, we no longer use a "Brushed Metal" main window type.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Editor's Notes:
Parsnips is now a free application. After downloading, use the following license string to gain full access to the application:dcf2-dcd9-ddeb-ddea-75b6
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Could Be So Much Better. Seriously needs updating! - Version: 1.5, 3/6/2007 11:24PM PST
EndlessFx
Parsnips clips text directly from browsers. That I love. I paid $27 to register it in 2005. Since 2005, It has become old and tired. It seems not to handle any multimedia. Further, there is no ability to tag, and I cannot set up Folders.
Many other clipping apps - such as Caboodle, iClip, Savvy Clipboard, Yojimbo - handle multimedia, tag, allow folder building, and costs much less.
I am also not sure that Parsnips works with Camino, OmniWeb, Opera, or browsers other Safari or Firefox.
It seems the developer may not be actively managing this software. I sent an e-mail to the developer on 03/07/07 but there were delivery problems.
With an update, Parsnips could definitely get better ratings and a recommendation: it is stable and easy to use. But presently, Parsnips is sorely outdated.
This vendor put this software out, charged $27.00 for it, stopped developing it, now it's free!
You know, if someone puts software out, gets ill and can't go further, I understand. If that happened here, then I wish the vendor respite from the troubles of sickness.
SO MANY duds are throwing software at us - software that we could actually use and for which we are willing to pay - then decide to walk away and leave us, the people who believed in them and supported them. Leaving us, however. However the application will work unsupported as interconnecting technologies move on. They leave the applications to wither away and fall behind and become however pointless.
It's happening so much that you can feel like you're missing bliss cause these raiders are certainly... (Never mind, nothing from nothing leaves nothing!).
I DON'T LIKE PAYING FOR SHAREWARE ONE MONTH AND HAVING IT UNSUPPORTED SIX MONTHS LATER! If you don't plan on keeping this gosh-darn software going, then make it free from the start. Perhaps all of you who don't intend to see your projects through should state that upfront - when you put the shat on the market! It's your for-the-moment hobby!
You folks out there in college and post-grad: just because you are gifted enough to throw it together, get enough bucks so you can go write your doctoral thesis on why Grigori Perelman didn't take the money for solving the Poincare Conjecture after so many failed for over 100 years, step back! There are some walking the same path as you who get to the end zone and touchdown, just the same, within resorting to completely self-serving tactics. Some people working on a thesis still support the software and the supporters they secured. They have honor (and probably better theses!).
You patriarch raiders, you...well, you should know better, anyway!
EXASPERATED BY THE BUNCH OF YOU!