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Advanced Diary
Advanced Diary

Advanced Diary is a digital diary to record your daily records and notes. You can maintain multiple diaries (e.g private, work, ideas etc) for a single day and easily access specific dates via the in ...

Average of 8 user ratings: 4


  • Mar 07, 2006
  • For version:
  • 1.3

quote  Top marks for advanced diary  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

AD is one of those programs that is just sooooo 'kewl' looking you just have to download it and install it to see what it looks like on your own PC! Let me tellya this is the business! A fantastic program with so many features it is amazing - just incredible! It is extremely user friendly and immediately found that I just want to utilize 'Advanced Diary' to it fullest capacity. In my experience, it integrates extremely well with MS W98 and no glitches or bugs are apparent. I commend the kind generosity of the developers in releasing this as a 'freebie' because they would be more than justified in charging for a program of this caliber. There are sufficient features to be creative and to personalize 'AD' to the Users preference. A Password feature allows diaries to be protected from prying eyes. If you are looking for this kind of utility, look no further. I highly recommend 'AD'.

user Review by: Dragon10 (40)
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  • Feb 13, 2006
  • For version:
  • 1.3

quote  What's not to like? superb [free!] software.  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Advanced Diary is superb. It contains features that one can find nowhere else but in similar products that cost $30 or so. This freebie is a jewel. Advanced Diary has password protection, lots of preferences, self-contained back-up, text formatting, support for multiple diaries, and the list goes on.

user Review by: ZenWarrior (17)
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  • Nov 29, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.2

quote  Lacks rtl mode of writing for hebrew !  quote

  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 2

It's A nice Calendar, especially for people who like to keep Diaries, but when it comes to writing in Hebrew - One is able to write Hebrew Text, But when it comes to add comma, semi-coma, etc. it shows all wrong, and does not write it properly at the end of the sentence, but at the beginning, only because it lacks Right to Left Mode ! It would be nice if that could be fixed ! Thank you !

user Review by: Anabel-lee (4)
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  • Nov 27, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.2

quote  Now password protected  quote

  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

I saw that a previous review mentioned there was not any password protection for this program, which I personally consider important if others use/may use your computer. I downloaded the program anyway and found that there is indeed password protection.

user Review by: Meelosh
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  • Feb 20, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.1

quote  It does what is says it does, and more  quote

  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I was looking for something to keep notes of day-to- day events that would transfer content, cut and paste, to the w::bloggar blog composition interface. This is exactly what Advanced Diary did for me. The only problem I had with it was the lack of dictionary. The good news is there is a good working dictionary on w::bloggar.

user Review by: sgtret (21)
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  • Feb 12, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.1

quote  Highly recommend  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Thanks to the author for this fine program. There are not too many freeware programs of this type and certainly not of this caliber. This new version(1.1), fills in all of it's former deficiencies with drag n drop, backup and more. Support has been great, after contacting author I received a reply in minutes and the problems were fixed. This certainly deserves a 4.5 or 5.

user Review by: joed2939 (6)
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  • Feb 10, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.1

quote  One of the greatest utilities ever!  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I have looked for a long time for a program like this.I use it nearly everyday for recording my daily computer habits,storing code, and registry tweaks.There are so many uses for this program!Great interface;great backup feature.It has worked flawlessly for me. Thanks for this wonderful utility!

user Review by: kathy1 (7)
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  • Jan 10, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.0

quote  Best "free" diary tool out there  quote

  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 3

I've tried most, if not all, of the "free" diary tools and Advanced Diary is the best. That being said, note the moderate scores. The UI lacks drag-and-drop capability so you can't create folders and then move entries around to the various folders. You can only print ALL diary entries or diary entries in a folder. You can't select a range of dates to print. There's no password protection. After a week of use, the diary.ddb file got corrupted. On a positive note, customer support was good. They got back to me right away with suggestions for how to fix the problem. Unfortunately, it didn't work and I lost all of my diary entries. There are several built-in formatting options and shortcut keys are available. Overall, it's a decent program especially for the price. The inability to select a print range is a major drawback and stability is questionable. I recommend setting-up an automatic job to backup the diary.ddb file on a daily basis.

user Review by: JohnKr
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