Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on
computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington
State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free
replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating
systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+
extensions.
Paint.NET

If you’re like me, and since I am the only person reading this you are me, you take a buttload of notes on everything from the albino rhino to the zebulon the zymurgist zebra. Where do you put most of your notes? Me? I use notepad or some other utility. But recently, I have gotten interested in the "getting things done" craze. My interpretation of gtd requires that I make lists, and keep all my documentation (e.g. PIM, todo’s, etc.) in one spot.

I chose to use a USB keydrive to store all my document. I started out just using Word or Excel to track things, but imagine my surprise when I discovered that not all computers into which I might plug my USB device will have Microsloth Office installed. What then?

Well the best thing to do would be to find a piece of software that I could carry with me, something that was small and would perform many functions at once, something that would run off a USB drive with little or no intrusion on the host machine. This turned out to be easier than I had, at first, thought.

NoteWiki
NoteWiki is a tiny (44kb) program that has big plans; it is the little ant that moved the rubber-tree plant. I took NoteWiki for a week long test drive and I never took it off my USB device. If you have used web based wikis then you will have no trouble using NoteWiki, and the slight effort of learning wiki words is repaid by the fact that NoteWiki has millions…no, billions…of uses. I even burned it to a CD for use as a documentation system.

Notebook
A signifigantly (2045kb) larger, though no less useful wiki-like application, Notebook fills the bill even better than NoteWiki becase it is much more configurable. Even though Notebook took several seconds to startup it is well worth the wait. If you can spare the space on your USB drive, then Notebook is the way to go.