Treecle organizes and structures information
Tree-Shaped
Treecle organizes information into categories and bundles it into a neat tree structure. Although the fairly young program shows some minor weaknesses, it is already fit for use.
A corporate structure, a collection of books or recipes, or just a list of tasks – all of these are information collections that you can store in a structured way, if it makes sense to do so. Popular applications such as spreadsheets or word processors are useful for this task, but they have their limitations. For example, it isn't easy to map information to trees in these programs, and that is precisely the target the free Treecle is aiming for: giving users the option of organizing their information into tree structures.
What Is Treecle?
Treecle's name breaks down to A Tree-like Collection of Linked Elements; the program and the source code are available for free from the website [1], which belongs to Indian physicist Kartik Patel. The open source tool is based on the popular Qt framework [2] and was written by Patel to organize his own collection of music and books.
Once Treecle is built locally, or just unzipped, the program gives users the ability to store text and images in large input boxes; the input can be part of a hierarchy or tree. Each branch of the tree stands for a category that can in turn contain subcategories.
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