Another new PIM...
Posted by zeoli
on 7/11/2004
zeoli
7/11/2004 9:43 pm
Has anyone tried out InfoPro from a company called Zpay? I just stumbled upon it recently. Looks like it falls into the same category as TexNotes or TreeDBNotes... URL is as follows:
http://www.zpay.com/infopro.htm
Steve Z.
http://www.zpay.com/infopro.htm
Steve Z.
srdiamond15
7/12/2004 5:41 pm
InfoPro is an example of a trend in pims: bringing almost full word processor power to bear. A few years ago, people could be heard to complain that MS Word was excessively feature rich; that many of it formatting commands were irrelevant to most people's work and were distracting if you just needed to write a note. Times and attitudes have changed, in that now the notetaking programs offer near-Word power. I'm not familiar with developments in computer programming, but I would guess that vendors are buying word processing components (from Microsoft)to incorporate.
At the same time, the need for a lot of formatting power in a pim may diminish as programs start incorporating OLE objects. If you put an object in a program like Idea! as a link object, Word's entire power is just a click away. That includes Word's outliner, which I hold in higher regard than most outlining types, and Word's ability to open multiple windows. The technology isn't quite there, however, and I haven't succeeded in properly incorporating a long Word document as an object.
srdiamond
At the same time, the need for a lot of formatting power in a pim may diminish as programs start incorporating OLE objects. If you put an object in a program like Idea! as a link object, Word's entire power is just a click away. That includes Word's outliner, which I hold in higher regard than most outlining types, and Word's ability to open multiple windows. The technology isn't quite there, however, and I haven't succeeded in properly incorporating a long Word document as an object.
srdiamond
srdiamond15
7/12/2004 5:41 pm
InfoPro is an example of a trend in pims: bringing almost full word processor power to bear. A few years ago, people could be heard to complain that MS Word was excessively feature rich; that many of it formatting commands were irrelevant to most people's work and were distracting if you just needed to write a note. Times and attitudes have changed, in that now the notetaking programs offer near-Word power. I'm not familiar with developments in computer programming, but I would guess that vendors are buying word processing components (from Microsoft)to incorporate.
At the same time, the need for a lot of formatting power in a pim may diminish as programs start incorporating OLE objects. If you put an object in a program like Idea! as a link object, Word's entire power is just a click away. That includes Word's outliner, which I hold in higher regard than most outlining types, and Word's ability to open multiple windows. The technology isn't quite there, however, and I haven't succeeded in properly incorporating a long Word document as an object.
srdiamond
At the same time, the need for a lot of formatting power in a pim may diminish as programs start incorporating OLE objects. If you put an object in a program like Idea! as a link object, Word's entire power is just a click away. That includes Word's outliner, which I hold in higher regard than most outlining types, and Word's ability to open multiple windows. The technology isn't quite there, however, and I haven't succeeded in properly incorporating a long Word document as an object.
srdiamond