Re: Info Select

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

Outliners.com Message ID: 773

Posted by aaces
2000-10-08 12:02:47

The following is a repeat of a note I believe I posted here before (+ sone updates).

“I just returned InfoSelect (IS) under its 60-day guarantee policy.

The most unique feature I found was that you can create multiple, separate IS files, and open any or all of them in the IS program and also search for text in any or all of them via one search query.

My difficulties with it are

1) its limited formatting capabilities. It even eliminates some formatting of text that one pastes into it. For example, if I have subscripts or superscripts in a Word file and I wish to paste that text into IS, the subscript and superscript formatting is lost in IS.

2. The *.crd import didn’t work properly for me

3.The upgrade price for recent purchasers is ridiculous. I purchased IS ver 5 on 7/7. There is now a version 6 beta ( http://www.miclog.com/is/6/info.htm , http://www.miclog.com/is/6/beta.htm ). To upgrade with the 50% discount for being a RECENT purchaser the total price would be as much as purchasing Ver6 directly, and even more if I wait a couple of weeks to do it.

4.Ver 4.0a-beta is here now! ==>A new beta version of Skwyrul is close to being released for testing. I haven’t been using it because the current version is missing a couple of features I need, but I expect the new version to be great, and it’s careware. ( http://www.asw.ndirect.co.uk ) THE POWERFUL RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON COMMANDS of ver 3.x have moved in Ver 4 to menus and keyboard commends.

5. Farther out on the horizon is Ver 3.0 of Jot+, another very worthwhile contender. See http://www.kingstairs.com

6. Agenda fans should check out Zoot (http://www.zootsoftware.com). But forget much formatting.

NEW: A possible alternative to Jot+ is the Russian-developed Advanced Note Tree (ANTey) at http://softclub.net/~psg. Has more formatting capabilities and ability to include graphics/pictures.
Less printing capability…only prints one node at a time.
Less import/export capability (only ASCII & .XML) Of course when Jot+ ver 3 arrives you might wish you’d stayed with Jot 2.4

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