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Re: MyInfo 3, Jot+, etc., and the vital need for calendars
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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-12-28 17:43:38
More complex. It doesn’t do anything to help you out. But then, if UR shaped up the outline, what would I do with NoteMap?
Daly discussed DoOrganizer as a knowledge organizer with a calendar. Hardly. The notes functionality in DoOrganizer is not well-developed, being only one of about six functions, including the typical task and calendar but also allowing mind maps. What is most well-developed in DoOrganizer is the formatting of text and the elaboration of images.DoOrganizer is GemX’s business pim. The new TextNotes Pro is their knowledge organizer. If you compare the notes features of TextNotes Pro 4 and DoOrganizer, which cost the same or about the same, you can see what a positive difference *leaving out* a calendar (and related functions) can make. GemX also supplies a separate calendaring product without any knowledge organizing features. TexNotes Pro seems to be a very _appealing_ program, but it lacks a feature important to a knowledge organizer, cloning. It apparently tries to make due with a duplicate command instead.
Daly surmised that I had never held a position requiring responses to changing conditions. That’s not really true as I am an attorney who tries civil cases. Trial dates and motion hearings do not generally require correlating shifting dates with the relative value of information, so I use a to do manager separate from my knowledge manager. I use a to do manager based on outlining; it is called Agenda at Once.
Which brings me to another problem with these all-in-one solutions. The more functions an application affords, the greater the likelihood that you won’t like one or another of its implementations. But it is a trade-off. I’m sure there’s a category of fast-moving professionals who need a calendar integrated with their information manager, whether as part of one program or as two programs with high interoperability.