Parsnips 1.0

A new breed of Personal Information Manager

If you're like most people, you constantly come across useful bits of information throughout the day while using your computer. It may come from a web site, e-mail, chat sessions, usenet news articles or just files that you have been sent. Parsnips now gives you a place to store all these bits of useful text and easily find them later.

Using a drag and drop interface, you select the text you want to save and drag it into Parsnips. Parsnips automatically creates an "item" for the information, and saves it away for later retrieval. You can also give the item a title, an associated URL or assign keywords to it. Later, when you want to find that information again, you can search for it using Parsnips powerful search mechanism. With Nuggets you can:

• find all items containing specific words or boolean combinations of words in either the title or the main body of text.
• find items containing one or more keywords you have attached to the them.
• find all items created in the past day, week, month, year, or any arbitrary range of dates.

Parsnips' search mechanism is similar to the popular Google® search engine. However in this case you are searching your personally relevant information rather than the web at large.

Parsnips can keep track of more than text. If you drag and drop any sort of file onto Parsnips, it will create an item for it and record the file's location on your computer. You can add keywords for the item or add comments about it. Later you can easily locate and open the non-text file by searching in the keywords or comments.