Introduction

TreePad Lite (freeware) and TreePad Asia (freeware) are small and powerful personal database programs, only 465 Kb in size. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier!
TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly.

Features

Articles and nodes
The usual database programs are not good at storing unstructured information, TreePad excells at this! It lets you define and impose your own structure.
All data is contained in 'articles'; an article is a text shown in the right pane of the program window. Any article is contained in a 'node' which is the most basic part of the tree (left pane).
To find a previously created or imported article, you can browse the tree, or use the internal search engine.

Tree editing
You can create any tree structure you want! It is very easy to add nodes/articles to the tree, delete nodes/articles, move whole sub-trees around using 'drag-and-drop', etc. You can even copy/paste complete subtrees including all contained articles.

Hyperlink support
Support for plain-text hyperlinks to: TreePad nodes/articles, files on your local harddisk, Web pages, email addresses, newsgroups and FTP sites.

Multi-language support
TreePad ASIA supports most non-western languages, like Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian through a feature called 'IME mode'.

Use your harddisk more efficiently
TreePad allows you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases which use up much less disk space than storing your data in a large number of separate documents.

More features
Print, tree sort, minimize to system-tray, text find-replace, stay on top, a flexible and customizable toolbar system, move nodes using drag-and-drop, copy/paste subtrees, import .txt, .csv, .hjt files, export subtrees and articles to .html, .txt, .hjt files, print subtrees and articles, etc.

Usage and installation
TreePad Lite is freeware, it won't cost you anything, it runs on Windows XP, Vista, 2000, 9x, NT. The program is small in size (only a few 100 Kb), it does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system. This means that TreePad can run directly from floppy - including database - without installing anything! This is extremely useful if you wish to easily access your notes on other computers as well. Automatic installation is also supported (simply run install.exe), as well as manual installation (just copy the TreePad files into a directory of your choice).

TreePad is powerful
The program might be small in size, but it is able to store tens of thousands of articles. Each article can contain a large number of characters. Articles can be linked to other articles using text hyperlinks. A TreePad data file can contain many megabytes of data. You can create and use any number of different TreePad data files. This means that the capacity of storing notes is only limited by the size of your harddisk! An internal search engine is included to find any data item immediately.

TreePad Lite Manuals
A manual is included in the download package (above). Additional documentation, such as a PDF manual and an online HTML manual can be found in the TreePad Lite Documentation section.

About TreePad
TreePad Lite is created by Freebyte.com
TreePad has been steadily updated and improved since 1995. Since its initial introduction in 1995, TreePad has become one of the most imitated programs on the Web.
If you want still more features, you should try out the other TreePad editions which are listed here..

TreePad Lite main window.
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TreePad Lite search engine
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Yet more Editions of TreePad

TreePad Viewer Freeware TreePad reader program that enables anyone to read/view TreePad (.hjt) files. In other words, TreePad files can easily be shared with anyone, users and non-users of TreePad, alike.

exe-eBook Creator exe-eBook creator is a freeware eBook compiler for TreePad files. It enables you to create an executable (program) from any TreePad file. This single .exe file contains the TreePad database within its own viewing program. The advantage of an exe-eBook is that it can be distributed royalty-free as a single file, since both data and viewing program are contained inside the same file. Furthermore, a TreePad exe-eBook runs directly, that is, no installation whatsoever is needed!

TreePad PLUS Shareware, introduces many extras not found in the freeware versions: images (BMP, JPG, GIF, ICO, EMF, WMF, PNG), active and underlined hyperlinks (www, file, directory, email, news, node, etc.), custom tree node icons, export to Web site, Word Processing, Zoom, advanced search, versatile drag-drop, extended clipboard functions, powerful import/export, etc., etc.

TreePad SAFE In addition to all features of TreePad PLUS, TreePad SAFE offers password protection and state-of-the-art encryption.

TreePad SAFE for Linux/Wine Password protection and state-of-the-art encryption on Linux/Wine..

TreePad Business Edition The Business Edition has all the features found in TreePad PLUS and TreePad SAFE, with an abundance of extra's, such as: spellcheck, thesaurus, generation of Websites with dynamic/Javascript tree pane, autodial, full-screen presentation mode, color marker, format painter, character map, secondary editor pane (draftpad), sort subtree all levels (with reverse), XML articles, export to XML, OPML and much more!

TreePad X Enterprise (single-user) Redesigned from the ground up for performance and security, TreePad X Enterprise accesses databases of up to 384 Gigabytes and opens up to eight databases simultaneously. Furthermore: import of binary files of any type and reasonable size into the database (attachments), direct transfer of subtrees between databases, spellcheck, thesaurus, etc.

TreePad X Enterprise Server (multi-user) Based on the proven TreePad-concept, and with all the features of the single-user Enterprise version and more, the multi-user edition is a powerful client/server Organizer, Database, Word Processor, Documentation system, Intranet replacement system and Search Engine. TreePad X Enterprise Server is easy to use and straightforward to install. It does not need any third-party databases, tools, drivers or special dll's. All the TreePad X client needs to connect to the TreePad X server is a standard TCP/IP connection.

TreePad Lite for Linux TreePad Lite for Linux, freeware. Very similar to TreePad Lite for Windows as described on this page but runs on Linux.

The TreePad family compared Confused at TreePad's many versions? Check out the TreePad comparison chart and the the TreePad Price List.