Notemap vs GrandView
Posted by macmark
on 5/14/2004
macmark
5/14/2004 12:41 pm
Hi!
I was excited by the idea that users of Notemap endorsed it on the Notemap homepage as "better than GrandView" but then I was disappointed by comments posted here to the effect that it really is not as good as GrandView. Before I waste time exploring Notemap I wonder if anyone could identify the failures of Notemap that I should be alert for.
Cheers,
Mark
I was excited by the idea that users of Notemap endorsed it on the Notemap homepage as "better than GrandView" but then I was disappointed by comments posted here to the effect that it really is not as good as GrandView. Before I waste time exploring Notemap I wonder if anyone could identify the failures of Notemap that I should be alert for.
Cheers,
Mark
jonathan.probber
5/14/2004 7:19 pm
Mark - Download NoteMap and fool around with it for 30 days. It's a superb outliner; basic features all easily mastered so you can fly in a couple of minutes.
JP
JP
macmark
5/20/2004 5:41 pm
Gentlemen!
I am happy to report back that I went ahead and downloaded a free trial version of NoteMap, Version 2. I am hysterically happy with it. I spent about an hour playing with it and then I was delighted to pay the $149 licence fee. I suppose that there might be some limitations on it but so far none of the ones that I have found are serious compared to GrandView and there are many modern features (e.g. fonts and colours) that make it much slicker than GrandView. It makes it easy to work in NoteMap and then send the results to Word or WordPerfect or PowerPoint. I am extremely delighted. After limping so long with GrandView for Dos in a Windows environment it is now as though my broken leg is healed and I can run again.
It was very easy to convert my ole GrandView files into NoteMap files. However I must thank Steve Cohen for the easy time that I had. I read somewhere on this Discussion Forum how to export the GrandView files to a text file. Previously, I had simply exported to an old WordPerfect format but then when I imported the result into WordPerfect it always came with an ugly numbering system. Steve said briefly: Select labels as unnumbered but indented and then select all of the outline so that it is highlighted and then export using the Paragraph option to a text file. Then when you import the result into NoteMap, you can pick your numbering system in NoteMap very easily. It worked great although a couple of longer paragraphs ended up being accidently broken into separate points but that was easy to correct manually once I realized what was happening.
Thanks Steve!
One last point. GrandView used to have a feature that allowed you to name various headings and then you could elect to "send" various individual points to those headings. NoteMap doesn't have that but it does have a "gather" function that comes close enough.
That's it for now. My initial impression of NoteMap is TERRIFIC!!!!!
Cheers,
Mark MacDonald
I am happy to report back that I went ahead and downloaded a free trial version of NoteMap, Version 2. I am hysterically happy with it. I spent about an hour playing with it and then I was delighted to pay the $149 licence fee. I suppose that there might be some limitations on it but so far none of the ones that I have found are serious compared to GrandView and there are many modern features (e.g. fonts and colours) that make it much slicker than GrandView. It makes it easy to work in NoteMap and then send the results to Word or WordPerfect or PowerPoint. I am extremely delighted. After limping so long with GrandView for Dos in a Windows environment it is now as though my broken leg is healed and I can run again.
It was very easy to convert my ole GrandView files into NoteMap files. However I must thank Steve Cohen for the easy time that I had. I read somewhere on this Discussion Forum how to export the GrandView files to a text file. Previously, I had simply exported to an old WordPerfect format but then when I imported the result into WordPerfect it always came with an ugly numbering system. Steve said briefly: Select labels as unnumbered but indented and then select all of the outline so that it is highlighted and then export using the Paragraph option to a text file. Then when you import the result into NoteMap, you can pick your numbering system in NoteMap very easily. It worked great although a couple of longer paragraphs ended up being accidently broken into separate points but that was easy to correct manually once I realized what was happening.
Thanks Steve!
One last point. GrandView used to have a feature that allowed you to name various headings and then you could elect to "send" various individual points to those headings. NoteMap doesn't have that but it does have a "gather" function that comes close enough.
That's it for now. My initial impression of NoteMap is TERRIFIC!!!!!
Cheers,
Mark MacDonald