Zoot News

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 19, 2007 at 05:19 PM

I have just bought a license for Zoot, after trying it out for a couple of weeks and extensively reading posts regarding its usability (I find it particularly brilliant that the Zoot forum archive itself is provided as a .zot file that one can use as a sample to play around with).

I found that handling of Greek text has improved compared to the previous time I tried it (about a-year-and-a-half ago); in fact, I think it’s particularly positive that the developer has been silently and continually supporting and improving the 16-bit version, all the time while working on the 32-bit port.

CRIMP aside (which I think I have grown over after a six month period of abstaining from any software purchases), the main reason I bought Zoot at this point in time, rather than waiting for the 32-bit version, is to support the Admiral in his labour of love; other than that, I have a good reason for trying to get accustomed to such a powerful information manager—my on-line master’s degree which I’ll be starting in a few weeks’ time.

For the last six months, I’ve been consistently using just 3+1 complimentary tools (ignoring most of the programs I’ve purchased during my CRIMP youth): Brainstorm, for note-taking and working on texts before outputting through Word; UltraRecall, as my project management database; and Idea! for organising large numbers of files. Interestingly, I have not had a long term notes repository till now; ideally Zoot can be it.

alx