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For detailed information on all features and a step-by-step tutorial, please have a look at our Online Help

Also see the information about the Outside-In Document Viewers available in the Pro version.

General Features

Modern Design - Replaces or Supplements Windows Explorer.  FNO 3 provides a complete alternative to Windows Explorer, and so much more. Use FNO 3 or Windows Explorer or any other application to copy, move or delete files or folders and your FNO 3 File Notes are automatically copied, moved or deleted too. more »
Unlimited Catalog Size - Significantly Increased Search Speed.  You can now create virtually unlimited notes against files and pages within files [Bookmarks] within each folder. FNO 3 will search and filter thousands of notes almost instantly.  more  »

Column/Field Options.  You may display or hide the standard Windows Explorer columns and select from FNO3 note/information columns which include: 4 textual notes, 2 date notes, page and page count notes, a numerical/decimal note, a bookmark note, checkbox note, thumbnail image, document summary information (.doc and .mp3) and the note timestamp. You can even make files, folders and bookmarks display with a row color so they stand out. more »

Simple and Advanced Note Editing: You can add notes with a simple "inplace" cell editor, or by using a popup multi-line editor.  You can edit notes cell by cell, or as a group.  However you want to work, FNO3 makes it simple and easy ! more  »

File Detection and Prompting.  A background service is able to detect the creation or opening of files in any or all of the folders on your PC and network without any noticable performance or memory consumption.  You can be prompted for notes as a file is saved or opened by any application.  Or you can be prompted for a note on the currently opened document only when you ask for it. more  »

Simple Upgrade from v2.7.  The notes catalogs in v2.7 are automatically imported into new FNO 3 catalogs.  You can continue to use v2.7 while you get familiar with FNO 3. more »  
   

Image and Document Viewing
Note: also see the information about the Outside-In Document Viewers in the Pro version

Integrated viewer with support for all popular graphics formats including Scansoft's Paperport MAX format and Multi-Page TIFF files.
Embedded support for viewing and bookmarking popular office documents, like Word, Wordperfect, and PDF
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Thumbnail Column.   Fast display of thumbnails for all formats supported by the viewer formats, including Paperport MAX, JPG, TIFF, BMP, GIF and a host of others.
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ThumbGrid display.  Show a folder of images (and bookmarks) in a thumbnail grid. The filename and the main note are displayed for each image.
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Photo Transfer Wizard.  With a couple of clicks the photos on your camera can be downloaded into an autogenerated folder and automatically renamed and renumbered.
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Slide Show.  You can create a slide show from a selection of files or bookmarks. FNO 3 will remember your saved selections for use in presentations.  The slideshow can run full-screen with no menus, have transitions, and even live markup.
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Bookmarking

Page Bookmarks.  A revolutionary ability to write multiple notes against each file and each page within a file [BookMark]. This allows you to bring order to any multi-page TIFF or PaperPort stack. The bookmarked page is even displayed as a thumbnail, or full size within the viewer. Bookmarked pages can be filtered and searched for just like any normal file note. more »

Workflow Process using Bookmarks.  Because multiple bookmarks can be added per document or page, it is easy for members of a workgroup to all write their own bookmark notes for the same documents.  FNO3 can easily be used to manage the whole review process for a document. more »

Highlight/Annotation Bookmarks.   Draw yellow highlights over an image or a page within a TIFF file, then save as a bookmark that memorizes the annotated page and any zoom or crop you have applied.  When you select the bookmark all your annotations are dynamically applied without changing the original document, as its all done with external overlays that you can share or keep from others. more »

Zoom/Crop Photo Bookmarks.   You take one picture, perhaps your first grade class photo, and make 50 separate bookmarks showing each classmate up close and personal. Use crop, rotate and zoom to get just the right image and save it as a Bookmark... the bookmark re-creates the segment dynamically from the original file.   You can make a slideshow of your bookmarked images. more »

Video Bookmarks.   View a video in the internal viewer, and add begin and end markers, then save it as a video bookmark, which you can write notes against.   You even get a thumbnail image of the starting frame of the video segment.  Your bookmarks can become part of a slide-show which enable your clips to be assembled into a presentation.   No changes are made to the original video file and no extra video files are created in the process. more »  
   

Other Great Features

Zip File Support.  View the contents of a zip file.  Zip and Unzip files. FNO3 notes automatically get included in zip files using pkzip comments.  Automates the trialling of a zip file within its own folder.
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Background Note Maintenance.  If you have FNO3 running in the system tray then all notes are automatically maintained whenever any Windows application (or Windows Explorer) performs a file copy, move, rename or delete. 
Flood Fill Notes.  Quickly create catalogs by searching for files that match various criteria, and automatically adding keywords or notes.
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Printing Files.  All the file types supported by the viewer can also be printed.  The print preview enables the size and position on the paper to be easily specified. more »

 

Printing of Notes.  You can now print your Catalogs.  You can perform a search or filter to display the notes you want, and then choose various page settings for header, footer, and borders. more » 

 
Folder Sizes:  See the size that a folder and all its subfolders are using on your PC.  Now you can see where all your disk space has gone and quickly root out the unwanted space hogs. more »  

Layouts and Templates. Save the way you have laid out the application for particular uses.  For example, with a click you can change from having a large viewer and a simple file list to having no viewer with many file notes columns on display.  Layouts can be exported so you can load them onto other computers. more »

 

 

MP3 and Word/Excel File Summary Info.  The descriptive information such as author, keywords and comments held within these files can be displayed in an information column.
Virtual Folders/ Collections. Create a virtual folder by dragging various folders into a catalog collection.  The collection can be browsed and filtered just as if it were a normal folder, even though the contents are from many places on your PC.  This enables you to create a collection for a special task, while leaving all the files in their current folders. more »

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