Keeper

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in detail

"Who can benefit from Keeper? Anyone..."

Keeper's ease of use and powerful organizational capacities make it useful for many types of people:

  • Writers - use the submission tracker to know to which markets you have submitted your writing
  • Researchers - use keywords and bookmarks to ensure that all your research is tagged properly for future retrieval
  • Gamers - put maps into Keeper with hotspot buttons on them -- these buttons can link to pages in Keeper or other files
  • Software developers - keep code snippets in Keeper & organize your software projects
  • Students - a specialized page exists for historical figures

    Feature by Feature


    StickIt Pages

    StickIt pages allow images to be dragged onto the canvas, notes added, and links created to other Keeper pages for a more visual approach to project brainstorming and organization. Also includes a flexible timeline tool.

    (Movie) Tutorial – StickIt. Basic StickIt features like drag/drop, adding notes, et cetera.
    (Movie) Tutorial – StickIt, Advanced. Advanced features, like timelines, for the StickIt Page type.

    Submission tracking

    This is a core feature for Keeper. It lets you add stories and markets and keep track of where stories are submitted. Various fields exist to track the expenses, sales, and other data. In a soon to be released new version some graphing tools will be added to help visualize the writer’s efforts.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Submission Tracking. This video demonstrates the process of submitting a story to a market.

    Basic Features

    Keeper’s index facilitates grouping and locating your ideas simply and effectively using a folder structure.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Index Basics. This video demonstrates how to use the most basic features of the index.

    Main Interface - Adding Pages, Ratings & Keywords

    Keeper works under the premise that the user adds “notes” to a notebook that is divided into sections. Unlike a paper notebook these notes can be rated and flagged with keywords for later searches and brainstorming.

    (Movie) Tutorial - Adding Pages. Shows how to add a page, rate it and assign keywords to it.

    There are quick ways to sort the index by keywords and subtypes

    (Movie) Tutorial - Filtering. Easily filter by keywords and subtypes plus an introduction to queries.

    Use pre-built queries to get the information you need quickly

    (Movie) Tutorial - Using Queries. This example video shows how to get a list of all stories *ready* to be sent out to markets plus a couple other queries.

    Index - Search

    Use the index’s search to find those harder to locate old ideas, or to help with a brainstorming session.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Searching. Video demonstrating how to use search.

    Navigating your pages

    There are several ways to move between the pages in your notebooks.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Navigation. Video showing how to move between pages in your custom notebooks, including random page jumps and the history feature.

    Options – Adding Notebooks

    Notebooks and subsections can be added/modified to help adjust the folder structure you are using to store your ideas.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Adding Notebooks. Video demonstrating how to add a notebook and subsection.

    Bookmarks

    Bookmarks can be used to organize a long note into smaller, sections.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Bookmarks. Adding, viewing and jumping to bookmarks.

    Reporting

    A flexible reporting tool allows you to capture where submissions are going, their current status, how much money you are making. Includes custom report creation so you can build your own reports.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Using Reports. This video demonstrates the core reports and how to create a custom report

    Cover Letters

    Easily generate and modify cover letters.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Using Cover Letters. This video demonstrates how to create a cover letter and use it when submitting a story to a market.

    Add-Ons

    Small free utilities that expand Keeper’s functionality. Download them from add-on page.


    Customizing Lists

    Add or remove items from virtually any list in Keeper to fully customize it to your experience.

    (Movie) Tutorial – Customizing Lists. Shows how to customize a list using Keeper’s options

    Portable, Safe, and Persistent Data

    All files used and created by Keeper are in the XML file format. This means that all data is basically a text file.

    Why does this matter?
  • Never lose your data You always have access to your data even if we stop developing Keeper. They are simple files (and there’s many XML utilities for free available) that can easily be opened. Many programs like Excel have the capabilities to import XML files.
  • Flexibility It allows us to know in the future we can easily create a web based version of Keeper since a lot of support for XML-Web integration already exists
  • Stability Data is very unlikely to get corrupted

    What's Next


    This is a list of intended feature improvements to Keeper, as well as website updates that are planned.

  • Integrate Visual Desk with Keeper
  • Timeline support
  • Spell-checking
  • Mobile Device Support
  • Tree view Index
  • Templates and special queries posted to web site
  • More tutorial videos
  • Market information posted, plus possibly a market trading area if there is enough interest for this