ScrapBook is a note-taking application, featuring enhanced organizational and search capabilities that help you manage a large collection of notes. ScrapBook also supports encryption (using the DES algorithm), to let you keep selected notes private.

You can organize your notes using nested folders (as many as you need, nested as deeply as you need), as well as by using standard Palm OS "categories".  Also, you can assign a list of keywords to a note, and find notes by searching for one or more keywords.

ScrapBook can search its database for multiple words at once (or, optionally, even multiple strings at once), searching keywords, titles, and (optionally) full message texts.  This includes the ability to search the message text of encrypted notes (in which case, ScrapBook will decrypt notes on the fly during the search, prompting for passwords as needed, but only when necessary). Search results are sorted so that the best matches are presented first.

ScrapBook can exchange notes, in both directions, with the built-in Memos or Memo Pad application. This also provides a path for exchanging ScrapBook notes and text files on the PC.

ScrapBook is shareware with a 30-day trial period; it becomes fully functional when registered.

ScrapBook was designed as a general purpose tool, so that its capabilities can easily be applied in a variety of situations. Some examples of ways to use ScrapBook include:

• Secure management of passwords, PINs, and other secret data
• Keeping a private daily journal or diary
• A safe notebook for personal information
• General purpose knowledge base with high speed search
• Editing long lists (given support for large notes and forward & backward searching within a note)

ScrapBook lets you organize your notes in a hierarchical collection of folders, in which a folder can contain other folders, with no limit imposed on the depth of the nesting that you use.  A simple "Folders" form lets you navigate quickly through the hierarchy.  You can restructure the folders and move notes from one folder to another using Cut and Paste operations.

You can continue to organize notes using "categories" (to carry over the organization when notes are imported from Memos) even as the notes are assigned to folders (these two methods of organizing your notes can co-exist).

ScrapBook's primary search feature is the multiple-keyword search.  The word or words used in a note's title are considered to be searchable keywords.  Optionally, you can list additional keywords after the note's title.

A keyword search can search for one or more keywords.  It is possible that several matching notes will be found.  The best matches are those notes which matched the largest number of keywords, so these appear first in the forms that let you browse through the results of a search.

An internal cross-reference (which cross-references known keywords with the notes that use them) provides two kinds of speed improvement:

• Keyword Autocompletion: when specifying a keyword you want to search for, you only need to enter enough letters for ScrapBook to recognize it correctly (ScrapBook fills in a guess for all the remaining letters so you can see when the recognition is correct).
• Direct lookup of matching notes - without needing to take the time to perform a text-based search!  Keyword searches are very fast, even on older devices with slow processors.

The download file includes a complete user manual.