As software become more complex and disk drivers larger, clicking through start menus and nested directories has become more and more time consuming and difficult.  "My Documents" seems to be in a different place every time I look for it.  WinPik attempts to eliminate these problems with a directory and applications fast retrieval manager,  and a central directory "Notebook" at the "root" level.

A Directory and Files tree may be a good idea when you're moving a lot of files around but it can be cumbersome and slow when doing everyday tasks.  WinPik turns those nodes into easy to understand notebook tabs and makes your disk drive a personal organizer.

If you're an old DOS user and would prefer typing things in, you can do it with WinPik.  If you need to make a quick math calculation you can simply type "calc" to bring up the Microsoft Calculator, or easier yet, just type the math line right on the prompt line.  WinPik will figure out that you're calculating something and will return the answer instead of a program.

Opening a Command Prompt or Explorer window will put you in the directory you're working in, not "c:\", so you won't have to type multiple "cd"'s.   WinPik will organize you around the directory that you're positioned in.   Even your applications will recognize the current directory instead of their own startup directory.  This way your data files will be all in one place, not scattered throughout the disk drive and nested down deep.  They'll be separated by notetabs that you create from WinPik.

You won't become dependent on WinPIk because it has no special proprietary formats.  It's special notebook tabs are simply sub-directories and it's native .Nbk memo files can be accessed from any text editor.  You won't lose all your data when a single master file becomes corrupted nor will you fear the importing and exporting of proprietary data when you upgrade your hardware or recover from a system crash.

If you've followed a simple set of rules, you'll have all your data backed up cleanly, having simply backed up your c:\notebook directory tree to your new cd-r drive.

Give WinPIk a spin and see if it works for you.