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Posted by jimspoon
Jan 17, 2008 at 05:05 AM
Check out the video tutorial. Looks interesting.
Posted by Ike Washington
Jan 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Thanks for the link, jimspoon.
Must be a case of the mid-January blues. I crimp, therefore I am - but Noah’s pitch doesn’t hook me.
A couple of points explaining why I’m not going to download Noah, why I’ll be sticking with Zoot or EverNote as a way of freeing my information from “separate data islands” etc.
The video is good. It makes me think that Noah has the potential to become a great product.
But the site, for all its Web 2.0 touches, lets the product down:
- no rss link for news
- no full screenshots
- no staff biogs
- the “forum” is just a company blog
- Noah has a bland, corporate feel to it
So, I’m not doing anything else here except to bookmark the site.
It’s an uphill task for any developer to get me to shift from my core applications. The people behind Noah could make it easier for themselves by making it easier for me to find out about them and their product.
Ike
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I must have a terribly suspicious mind, but as this is a free product and there doesn’t seem to be any advertising in the product, what’s in it for the developers?
Graham
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 17, 2008 at 01:02 PM
Here’s an interesting bit from one of the news links in the site:
http://enewschannels.com/2006/09/29/enc241_200154.php
A recent survey shows that after using organizers and PIMs for over 6 months, 50% of users abandoned them, and only 15% said that the software really helped them become more efficient.
(I think I definitely become to the 15%, though what I have done with the time I’ve saved is debatable; I probably spent a lot of that looking for other PIMs!)
I will also keep my information in my separate islands for many reasons, one of them being resilience. I have already put too much of my info in one PIM (Hyperclip) in the past, only to find the company disappearing into thin air not long after. I am even more doubtful of a company offering a completely free product with no indication of where it is financed from and how it plans to remain in business.
That said, NOAH does sport some novelties I would like to see in other information organisers, mainly the Grid organising info items in a time sequence. I have actually suggested the product to a couple of colleagues who have remained as yet indifferent to the less colourful applications I have chosen for myself. I think that for someone who has only used MS Office apllications this could be an eye-opener.
BTW I find it reminds a lot of the (no longer developed?) Omea Pro. Must be the .NET framework.
alx
Posted by cpb
Jan 17, 2008 at 01:42 PM
ugh, another prototype;
too large and slow, for what it does.
-cpb