The Spoken Word

InfoHesive is a product of 2BrightSparks and is a personal information management application. It is meant to organize Files, URLs, Articles, eBooks and whatever can be structurized within a single application.

Overview

The application aims at organizing informations of all kinds into a structured view. For that, the main window is splitted vertically to have a outline view of the information structure on the left side and the editor view on the right side.

The structure from 2BrightSparks is as follows:

Every aspect put into InfoHesive is managed as a project, which is stored in a proprietary file format. There are three types of projects which can be created:

• Project - Here, all generic information can be archived and structured
• eBook - This is a project only with Topics and Articles. No File or URL links can be inserted. This is the preferred format for people writing eBooks they want to publish. InfoHesive offers the ability to publish written eBooks as an executable using the proprietary InfoHesive viewer.
• Help File - This is  a project pretty much comparable to the eBook style.

Features

The application offers the following benefits:

• Easily creatable structure with topics and subtopics
• A topic can consist of topics, articles, URL links, File links
• Each entry can be annotated/described and also be linked to other pages within InfoHesive

Personal Experience

I’m a fairly ew user to InfoHesive, though the concept to store very different things is quite appealling. What I, up to now, dislike is the necessity to keep files on the file system and not being able to embed it directly into the InfoHesive "project".

Since that, I use a central folder where all information is loosely organized. Any files in this folder are linked to at least one InfoHesive entry, so that I don’t pollute the folder with uninteresting information or non-organized information.

This section will be expanded as my usage improves (and with it my understanding on how to work with this application).

Any critics/comments are highly welcome!