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Posted by Thomas
Mar 12, 2007 at 12:27 AM
I’m user of DO3. The mailer is very basic, and the outliner part too (though they promised to move many of their standalone notetaking programs features into it soon).
What persuaded me is the interlinking capability between all the modules.
Posted by Bob Mackreth
Mar 12, 2007 at 02:01 AM
Francis Morrone wrote:
>Two things I like without having yet tried the program: First is the 60-day trial.
>Second is the modular pricing. Does anyone else do that? I think it is excellent.
>
>In a
>CRIMP moment I purchased TexNotes Pro some time ago. I have to say that while it is
>“feature rich” it is one of the most unwieldy, unergonomic programs I have ever used,
>which is to say I have hardly used it at all.
This is very interesting to read. When I first looked at a Texnotes screenshot, all I could think was that it had the most cluttered, garish UI of any information organizer I’d ever encountered. Reminded me of the children’s board game “Candyland,” if you’re familiar with that.
So, with the CRIMP passion overtaking me (and I perfectly understand that term) I downloaded the trial version and set to work closing windows and streamlining toolbars just to see whether a useful program might be hidden under all that tinsel. After about an hour I grew weary, and decided the heck with it.
As this is a delurk post, I want to say how pleased I am to find this forum. The archived messages contain a wealth of useful information, and candid commentary. My own background… I started out in the CP/M era very happily using an outliner called Out-Think (a slimmed-down version of KAMAS), then switched to the DOS version of KAMAS. For a long time, starting in the mid-90s, I relied on AskSam and ECCO as my workhorse tools, but eventually grew disenchanted with AskSam.
These days I still run my life using ECCO; I also use it to maintain a large personal research database that is still growing. I cannot imagine ever dispensing with ECCO entirely. However, in the last year or two, I’ve supplemented it with NoteMap (for writing) and MyInfo (for general information management). I’m really pleased with MyInfo so far, and I continue to find new uses for it.
Nonetheless, I’ll probably keep on trying out new programs, hoping that some day I’ll find that one perfect Holy Grail of a single “do-everything perfectly” info manager.
And finally, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve installed a trial copy of ZOOT, fiddled with it at length, then walked away saying, “I MUST be missing something here.”
Posted by Cassius
Mar 12, 2007 at 05:27 AM
1. Bob, if you haven’t seen previous postings on NoteMap, you may find them interesting.
2. I emailed Gemx asking if either of its programs could import Web pages. No answer.
-c
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 12, 2007 at 01:20 PM
Bob Mackreth wrote:
>And finally, I’ve lost track of the
>number of times I’ve installed a trial copy of ZOOT, fiddled with it at length, then
>walked away saying, “I MUST be missing something here.”
Bob,
Glad you decided to post. I find it facinating how “personal” are our relationships with Personal Information Managers. I love Zoot. I loved ECCO too, but stopped using it when development ended… which, coincidentally was about when I discovered Zoot.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 12, 2007 at 02:41 PM
Bob,
You wrote:
“And finally, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve installed a trial copy of ZOOT, fiddled with it at length, then walked away saying, “I MUST be missing something here.” “
I did exactly the same experience!
Even have decided against Zoot I still believe it is one of the best PIMs (or whatever) tools available today.
Dominik