I reviewed an early version of TreePad in 1999 when I described it as 'a really simple Personal Information Manager'. And so it was: it was pretty intuitive, simple to get to know and simple to use, and a later version is still available as freeware in the shape of TreePad Lite. That version is still very close to what was reviewed and anyone who wants a tree-structured information organizer will find it very useful indeed.
However, TreePad has moved on a long way from 1999: there are now, by my count, eight versions of TreePad, including the two freeware programs, plus the free TreePad Viewer (enabling you to send someone a read-only TreePad file) and exe-eBook creater, which, as the name suggests, enables you to turn a TreePad database into an electronic book. (Of which, more later.)
The eight versions range from the simple, Lite version (with an 'Asia' version with multi-language capabilities) to the TreePad Enterprise Multi-user version. All are amazingly competitively priced, the version reviewed here is only Euro 35.95, TreePad PLUS is only Euro 24.95 and even the Enterprise version which allows databases up to 256 Gb in size is only Euro 73.95. The multi-user version has a rather more complex pricing structure.
