System Requirements

Any Palm computer with Palm OS 3.0 or above and 350K of free memory.

Desktop version requires Win95 or above.

ThoughtManager Desktop now gives you more power to organize your life than ever!

Designed for a variety of educational uses, ThoughtManager for Education is a powerful tool for teachers and students. Use it for: making outlines (nine levels of embedding), planning lessons, assessing,  taking notes, and organizing the loads of information involved in teaching and learning. With the desktop version, you can get it all together on your  big screen, transfer it to your handheld, and  make changes on either device throughout the day.

You can:

• Create& organize lesson plans, lectures, & learning activities
• Design and do authentic assessments while students are learning
• Record student learning with standards-based checklists & rubrics
• Manage classroom tasks, homework records, behavior logs, parent phone calls, field trips, and more...
• Teach note-taking, group collaboration skills, research steps, vocabulary skills, text-book reading, hierarchical information storage (outlining), time management, & more
• Write, read, & study information in outline form: vocabulary, literature, test items, and more
• Share your outlines, activities, ideas, agendas, lesson plans by beaming them, sending them via email, or posting them on this Web site

Desktop Features:

• Create outlines on your desktop and load them onto your handheld computer at the touch of a button.
• You can download information from the internet and organize the information into outlines with headings and subheadings that drop down and close up.
• Attach images and notes to any item of an outline
• Create and modify templates that you can turn into outlines and vice versa.
• Copy and paste text from any document into outlines, or
• Directly open a Microsoft Word document to instantly create an outline
• Save an entire outline directly as a Microsoft Word document in one step.
• Save and open separate outlines as Palm (.pdb) files to store, email, change, etc. For example, you may find some information on the internet that you want to outline, edit, and read  later on your handheld computer. Just copy it, paste it into a new outline in the ThoughtManager desktop.

Features for Education:

• Over 90 preloaded educational outlines and templates for easy reference & use. You will save time by always having in the palm of your hand a host of resources: course outlines, lesson plans, curriculum standards, activity ideas, homework checklists, assessment data, student observations, practice tests, test-taking skills, vocabulary lists, web sites, and more. To see a list of included  outlines, see below: ThoughtManager for Education Outlines.
• The template feature allows you to recall the same outline, along with attached drawings, to create new outlines (e.g., lesson plan outlines).
• To each item you can attach notes and even drawings, such as maps, diagrams, & graphic organizers.
• Store up to 30,000 characters in one item!
• The checklist feature that adds checklist boxes to any outline, useful for assessment and task lists
• Outlines for administrators, teacher trainers, and reading specialists
• You can send in requests for outlines to meet your specific needs to: education@handshigh.com
• Customer support provided by educators

Standard Features:

• Easy drag & drop outlining to organize your thoughts quickly
• Multiple file folders in which to organize and store different kinds of outlines
• Duplicate an item and all of its sub-categories; store items in the on-screen folder for use in other outlines
• Extensive Undo. Don't worry about making mistakes.
• In place editing. No extra taps required to enter your information.
• Double-tap to select a word. Triple tap to select a line.
• Beam outlines to other teachers and students
• Keyboard support
• Temporarily show or hide checked items
• Uncheck all checkboxes with one command
• Sort outlines by category, date created, date modified, alphabetically, or manually by dragging and dropping
• Palm OS 3.5 support: Color support and color drawings
• Popup toolbars

Preloaded Outlines