Back to the GrandView
Posted by ureadit
on 4/23/2004
ureadit
4/23/2004 6:51 am
I've been getting by with "modern" PIMs for some years now. PIMs like Jot+, TreePad Business, Ecco Pro, Inspiration, Maple Pro, KeyNote, WinOrganizer, NoteMap, and MyBase. But now I find that I again need features that I once used extensively, but haven't found in current PIMs.
In particular, I need a calendar/diary, cloning, something equivalent to GV's category/assignment capability, and the ability to search all of these views simultaneously and gather the results. Ecco might be able to do this but mine has developed a flaky "find" feature.
Thus, it's back to GrandView for this task. That is, unless one of you fellow PIMmers out there can suggest a product I haven't tried. I've thought about InfoSelect, but I understand that it's still pretty buggy. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks!!!
-Steve C
In particular, I need a calendar/diary, cloning, something equivalent to GV's category/assignment capability, and the ability to search all of these views simultaneously and gather the results. Ecco might be able to do this but mine has developed a flaky "find" feature.
Thus, it's back to GrandView for this task. That is, unless one of you fellow PIMmers out there can suggest a product I haven't tried. I've thought about InfoSelect, but I understand that it's still pretty buggy. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks!!!
-Steve C
zeoli
4/23/2004 8:08 pm
Steve,
Have you tried MyInfo from Milenix? (For all I know, I may have first heard about it from you in this forum, so forgive me if that's true.) I've only dabled in it a little, but I believe it has a cloning feature, so you can have one note in multiple places in your outline. Also, it has meta data which may serve the category/assignment capability you are looking for. The URL is
www.milenix.com
It has promise, I think. I haven't bought it yet because I find the editor is still a little primitive, though it does have some basic RFT formatting.
Steve Z.
Have you tried MyInfo from Milenix? (For all I know, I may have first heard about it from you in this forum, so forgive me if that's true.) I've only dabled in it a little, but I believe it has a cloning feature, so you can have one note in multiple places in your outline. Also, it has meta data which may serve the category/assignment capability you are looking for. The URL is
www.milenix.com
It has promise, I think. I haven't bought it yet because I find the editor is still a little primitive, though it does have some basic RFT formatting.
Steve Z.
sub
5/4/2004 2:14 pm
I've just bought BrainStorm (www.brainstormsw.com) after trying it out for a while and being fairly impressed. It's not an outliner, though it has an outline ("aerial") view of entered information. It's a text-based idea/information organiser, with full web publishing features.
It started out as a DOS-CP/M program and it can still be completely keyboard navigated, which I like very much. I find it is a very well developed program; there's lots of clever features like "magic-paste" which facilitates data collection, and others that make re-organising a breeze. Cloning is there too, in the form of "namesakes".
A lot of common sense seems to have gone into it which, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, "is not so common". In fact, it took me a while to realise how well it's structured just because I found it so unusual compared to anything else I had tried.
Cheers
Alexander
P.S. Last but not least, it works with the Greek character set!
It started out as a DOS-CP/M program and it can still be completely keyboard navigated, which I like very much. I find it is a very well developed program; there's lots of clever features like "magic-paste" which facilitates data collection, and others that make re-organising a breeze. Cloning is there too, in the form of "namesakes".
A lot of common sense seems to have gone into it which, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, "is not so common". In fact, it took me a while to realise how well it's structured just because I found it so unusual compared to anything else I had tried.
Cheers
Alexander
P.S. Last but not least, it works with the Greek character set!