Re: Outliner with automatic categorisation

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 4309

Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-10-12 10:00:44

Peter, MDE InfoHandler has that feature, as does Zoot. I think IH has the same kind of precise programming as Zoot—in other words it does what it was designed to do, and there is always a new level of understanding or appreciation for the software as one grows in experience with it.

I find it helpful, though more time consuming, to do a manual categorization in IH because it means that I am reading carefully whatever goes into it, and reflecting on the material. As a result I have not much used its autocategorization feature.

The scope of IH is evident from this blurb that I have copied from
http://www.mdesoft.com/eng.htm

MDE InfoHandler offers very efficient retrieval of information based on 1) a unique non-hierarchical scheme for ‘categorizing’ the info and 2) on time constraints . You can automate the categorization by searching through local and linked external documents for key phrases or words. There are two alternatives for viewing the collected info items, a tabular arrangement and a display as ‘trees’ of categories with the info items as the ‘leaves’. Other features include password-protection, multi-user support, global text search, richly formatted text (RTF), hyperlinks to local documents and Internet pages, various drag & drop operations, special support for temporal data, optional alarms attached to the stored info items, versatile print options, customizable toolbars, and much more.

MDE InfoHandler can quickly become the sine qua nonóthe ìmust-haveî program for both professionals and hobbyists whose work requires an expert control over a flood of information.So InfoHandler may well be the very thing for:

* Students, authors, scientists, and journalists who must handle voluminous material resulting from study, investigations, and research.
* Lawyers, consultants, and technicians who must organize the data for their projects or want to store and easily retrieve their accumulated know-how.
* Workgroups that want to manage their common documents and knowledge.
* Hobbyists, such as collectors who want to organize their treasured collections on their computers. ,
* Anyone who surfs the Internet extensively and accumulates a great number of links to many types of visited sites and would even like to store some of the sitesí content .
* Anyone who sends and receives many Email or News messages and wants to archive these smarter and more efficiently than can be done in most Email/News programs.

For many, MDE InfoHandler will also work well as a document manager, as an outliner, an address book, a reminder, diary, or appointment book, and consequently as a uniform yet versatile replacement for some of these more specialized programs.

Daly

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