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

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Posted by daly_de_gagne
2004-12-27 13:03:43

Stephen, you wrote: “ADM probably strives to be a professional PIM, if it can get over its appetite to be totally all-inclusive in functionality.”

I think this is an unfair characterization of what ADM is trying to do, which is to combine the capabilities of an outliner and a professional information manager. It is going beyond any other outliner or information manager on the market in terms of its implimentation of metadata, accessible either by way of columns and/or data-base like forms at the top of the textcard (article pane).

In addition, ADM has a keywrod system, but it is a long way from equalling MDE InfoHandler’s system of groups and categories.

By definition, from a programming perspective, what ADM is trying to do is, and will, take a lot of fine tuning.

For people who wish to outline, write, and massage their information in terms of metadata, there is not much choice out there. ADM and MDE InfoHandler are two prime products for such activities. Using ADM and InfoHandler together allows me to do far more than I could with any other single, or combination of, program(s).

You keep saying that a calendar “generally” doesn’t belong in a knowledge organizer, and I say that may be what is correct for you, but as a general principle or axiom, it is far from being so.

People working primarily with knowledge work with a fairly inflexible constant called time. To be able to plan their work within one environment allows for efficiencies of time and effort that wouldn’t otherwise be there. Getting Things Done methodology can be applied well to both ADM and IH—better than perhaps to any other information program on the market.

I think that the distinctions between knowledge and business organizer principles exist more in your mind than reality, and that, in fact, it is not illusionary to suggest these distinctions do not exist in an important way.

Daly

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