Re: MyInfo 3, Jot+, etc., and the vital need for calendars

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-12-26 21:32:56

TreePad Business has a calendar.

I think PIMs fall in three clusters: 1) business PIMs; 2) Knowledge organizer PIMs; and 3) professional PIMs.

Outlook is a business PIM, as is Treepad Business, and probably JOT Plus Notes; UltraRecall, MyInfo3, and Idea! Professional are knowledge organizer PIMs.MyInfo3 may be the purest knowledge organizer. Idea! has significant business features, and UltraRecall seems to be leaning toward a secondary emphasis on professional features. Ecco, GrandView, Microsoft OneNote, and Zoot! are professional PIMs.ADM probably strives to be a professional PIM, if it can get over its appetite to be totally all-inclusive in functionality.

The tree organizer format can be suited to business or knowledge organizer use. When put to business use, reliability, ergonmics, and editing features are strong; in the knowledge organizer the primary emphasis is on the outlining functionality itself: multiple discontiguous selection, cloning, unlimited undo. The tree is less well-suited for professional use, unless it plays a somewhat secondary use and is supplemented by other organizing principles, such as rules and flags (Zoot! and OneNote, respectively).

The professional category makes use of both business and knowledge organizer principles, giving its users the illusion that these distinctions don’t exist in an important way for pure business or pure knowledge organization. Generally a calendar has little place in a knoweldge organizer PIM, but a necessary place in a business PIM and an essential and possibly central place in a professional PIM.

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