Whiz Folders Deluxe 6

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 1, 2007 at 08:32 AM

A very interesting thread has come up here!

I agree that OneNote is one of the best applications developed by Microsoft!
They have mabe outsourced the development of OneNote to another company otherwise it wouldn’t be that good… ;-)
Even it’s a good application I don’t use it.

Some more experiences withe WhizFolders Deluxe:

Keyboard shortcuts:
You can change the shortcuts. I still believe that keyboard shortcuts are faster than using the mouse or menues. WhizFolders has some shortcuts to which I am not used to. Changing the topic title is Ctrl + R and not F2 like in most other applications. So I changed that an it’s perfect now.

Collecting Web text snippets:
I have copied some text snippets from websites and pasted them into WhizFolders. Works pretty well and if you don’t need the orginal formating of the webpage it is very handy and useful. WhizFolders adds the link to the orginal website to the text snippet. This link works fine and is correct compared to other applications where sometimes a wrong or incomlete link is added.

Quick Note taking:
I feel that it is easier in WhizFolders than in other applications to add new notes while being on the phone or having a new idea. WhizFolders is the general data pot for not seriously structured data for me. When I need an information later then I add it to UltraRecall or to IdeaMason.

Again Brainstorming and text development:
Very easy and fast, and similar to how you can do it in UltraRecall (UR allows to open several topics as well in tabs).

Keywords/Metadata:
Definitely not the key feature in WhizFolders and it is not developed for that purpose. If I really need a structured approach then I use UltraRecall (task management for example). Very handy: I can add an universal link from a UR text pane to a WhizFolders topic.
Assigning keywords to topics and text passages is very useful.

Dominik