Re: Getting software to work together

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Posted by 100341.2151
2006-02-05 20:56:08

> I think I have come to accept that a quest for integration is doomed to failure and that some duplication and manual intervention is inevitable.

I have to agree. I’m afraid. It’s basically a question of putting the software with the most useful feature-set for one’s primary task at the centre, and then choosing other software to fill in the gaps, while minimizing overlap. Still quite a tall order :-)

My current basic list is very like yours: Zoot, Net Snippets on FireFox - although Scrapbook would probably do just as well - dtSearch, and Endnote. I’ll await Biblioscape v7 with interest, however, because of its much more sophisticated organising abilities.

I am also still investigating the option of using Zoot with ContentSaver instead of Net Snippets. ContentSaver (as I mentioned over on the Zoot forum)has some attractive features, and offers a way of hyperlinking external programs to its stored documents. Unfortunately in Zoot the hyperlinks only seem to work in the case of CS’s html files, and not for pdf or MS-Office ones. If I could get them all to work I would probably use CS as a way of micro-organising subsets of my files for particular projects - even if it meant keeping duplicates outside CS so that they could be searched by dtSearch.

> I still need a better file manager, and I’m not sure whether to upgrade my Dopus registration or to look at Total Commander.

That’s a difficult choice. At the time I bought TotalCommander I had tried Dopus out, but found I could not get the pdf plugins to work the way I wanted. The Dopus forum thought this must be a problem with my equipment, but at any rate I chose TC instead. Because it relies on plugins written by users, most of whom - on the forums, at any rate - are very adept, it can be fiddly to set up, but I like its similarity to old DOS programs like Laplink and Norton Commander.

Derek

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