Re: Mind Raider

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Posted by chris
2005-08-24 20:32:32

“Could someone provide an example of a powerful Zoot exotic tool and what about the way Zoot presents it that makes it obscure to the new user?”

I think the ability to modify arbitrary attributes based on conditions is one of the more exotic Zoot abilities. This, combined with rule-based assignments, allows you to construct very robust workflows essentially from scratch. In other words, tracking the state of an item over time based on your own criteria is really easy to do in Zoot.

Something like “find and replace all instances of Ted with Bill in incomplete tasks of high priority for the ACME project created in March of 2005” is probably impossible in most info managers but is the sort of thing which is a piece of cake with Zoot.

I don’t think virtual folders are really the “core” proposition of Zoot. I’d say that they are only one of several equally valuable tools for gathering, classifying, sorting, extracting, viewing, and manipulating bits of info. To me, the flexibility/abstraction is the core proposition of Zoot. Different databases can be radically different: some can be static, manual creations much like a standard hierarchical database; others can be completely dynamic processors whose only purpose is to modify properties and route items to other locations based on user-defined parameters.

Chris

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