ConnectedText v5

Posted by Eduardo Mauro
Sep 25, 2011 at 10:20 PM

Daly and Graham,

I never meant or said that CT is solution to everyone. And is quite understandable that not everyone likes its approach (we say: what would be of the blue if everyone liked the red). As I said in a previous post, it is not a swiss knife. For instance, if you think it as a text editor with formatting capabilities, and surely it isn’t, there are many other programs that offer a much superior set of features. But, if you like wiki and wants to add thousands of notes, creates links between them, and search them using a boolean query operators with a rich set of predicates, I can say that CT is an excellent solution and offers many unique features like auto tagging or automatic detection of texts similar to the one being read.

Before creating CT I tried to use PersonalBrain. I was amazed with its user interface. But then, when I started to create links, I felt somewhat limited. I know many people who loves PersonalBrain and make a good use of it. For me, the best software is the one which provides what I need no matter what others think about it. So no matter you like CT or not, I read your posts with vivid interest since they can lead to new ideas.

>I do detect a slight whiff of
>software snobbery from the CT users in that respect - just like with Zoot - if you can

I don’t see such software snobbery. Perhaps, I am wrong. But if you read the posts in our forum you see that CT users are quite helpful. I am always amazed with the contributions I receive from them, specially when they correct my use of English. So, if you have any question about CT I will most happy to answer them. I invite to try it. If it doesn’t suit your needs, no problem. Just let me know what do you think about it. We will continue working hard on it, as we did in the last 7 years.

I apologize for my little digression.

Best regards,
Eduardo