Evolution Computing
About CollectedThought
fastcad2.com - December 22, 2024
Evolution Computing's new CollectedThought™ program is a thought collector, a chaos organizer, a personal digital assistant. It's an idea manager, a drawing program, a way to collect bookmarks and information, and a way to easily find and organize your files. It's visual. It takes drag and drop to the max for quick and easy note taking and project organization. It has tool transparency. Working with it is like working with nothing else.
You can use it to make notes, To Do lists, keep web bookmarks, organize ideas, create storyboards, make presentations, brainstorm, create tutorials, plan trips, write school papers with complete source back links, plan and manage tasks, and design things. You can draw charts and diagrams. Best of all, it is easy to do these things.
the background color and fill style
the menu, (or even if you want one or not)
the drag and drop toolbar, (you can share your own design between drawings, or each
drawing can have its own)
all icons used in menus or by the program
The circular menu's background image
even the style of the window frame
Simply drag and drop images and selected text from Firefox or other advanced browsers,
without copy & paste.
Bookmark websites by dragging the small "favicon" from the URL box in any browser.
Make links to files on your computer by dragging the filename from any file dialog box,
desktop shortcut, or explorer window.
Anything you can draw can be a container: Drop objects on a container object, then double
click on the container to open a window to see and edit its contents.
Always-open containers and tool palette objects always show their contents - they are like a plate:
What you drop on them is always visible and stays on the plate when it moves. Simply drag items off
any open container to remove them from the container.
The days of a calendar are each containers. Drop notes, link to documents, and pictures onto
a calendar day and then double-click to see everything saved for that day. You can
store everything you need for a meeting inside a calendar day container.
Make quick and easy notes by dragging a text object or checkbox text from the toolbar and
type only the text of the note.
Record a lecture or presentation. Notes you make during the recording or playback can be
used as an audio bookmark for the recording.
Work with a variety of fill styles, image fills of complex shapes, and custom color gradients
A simple RGBA color model lets you easily fill any shape with translucent colors. You can interactively
use sliders to get just the right color and translucency you desire.
Any object can be assigned a custom tooltip or action. You can create buttons, links, and other user-interface
objects right inside your drawing. A mouse click can open a file, change layers, run a script, execute
a system command, launch a program, or open a web page.
Text objects support mixed language bidirectional Unicode text.
Unlike desktop icons, drawings with all of their links and references can be quickly transfered from one computer
to another or even emailed.
Every object has an object-specific right-click popup menu that provides quick access to common operations
for that type of object - and the popup menus can be customized
CollectedThought™ contains a full CAD engine, so multiple-level undo/redo is supported. You can zoom the view
in and out by any scale factor - not just integer or power of two multiples.
CollectedThought™ fully supports printing high-resolution drawings that use translucency. The CAD engine renders
everything at the maximum level of detail supported by your printer for beautiful color prints and
smooth antialiased curves.
CollectedThought™ contains its own built in screen-capture facility integrated with the program that
can directly place captured images in your drawing or send the image to the clipboard. It
features a variable-scale magnifying cursor and fine position adjustment using arrow keys to
make pixel-precise screen captures - no more guessing or image cropping needed.