The Guide Portable

The Guide Portable is a sophisticated and approachable application designed for those who want to have a simple tool that could organize information and ideas in a hierarchical order, or create different books or projects that need to be structured in a tree. If features basic formatting tools to help write notes in an easy manner.

Thanks to its portability it can be copied to a USB flash drive and run from any Windows-based computer. It's wrapped in an accessible and intuitive interface with the tree structure on the left side of the window and the word processor with all the necessary functions on the right. It comes as an executable utility, similar to an archive that once run, it unpacks the files in a specific folder and location.

To get started, all you need to do is create a new top-level page, which becomes the parent node and it can contain as many children nodes as needed. In case there is an existing database (GDE) stored on the computer, you can open it.

The Guide Portable lets you change the icon from a few predefined ones, to best represent the content, along with text and background color. Pages can be moved up and down to organize them in the right order, renamed and deleted at any given time.

You may use the editor to type thoughts or ideas for a new book or a guide, by using the provided tools to customize the text. You can choose from different font types, styles, sizes, bold, italic or underline, as well as increase and decrease indent, insert bullet lists, modify the line spacing, and change the background and foreground tones.

You have the choice to enter date and time, hyperlinks and various objects, like documents, paintbrush pictures, charts or worksheets. Optional settings can be set up from the menu, such as date and time format, minimize to tray, autosave the project at a particular interval, and create backups.

The bottom line is that The Guide Portable is a useful utility that comes in handy for those who want to create small books, guides, help files or simply organize your daily thoughts in a tree structure for an easier read.