Public Beta phase begins for Zoot 6.0

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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 12, 2010 at 08:14 PM

Phase II of the beta release of Zoot 6.0 is now available at

http://www.zootsoftware.com/Downloads/z6.htm

From Tom Davis:

You’ll finally be able to use Z6 for “real work” then.

Currently missing from the beta:

* Printing
* Spell Checking
* Google Calendar Sync
* Blog Accounts (ability to post updates to Blogger and WordPress right out
of Zoot)

I may have missed some other minor items, but those are the big ones. I’ll
get them in as time permits.

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 13, 2010 at 04:37 AM

Thanks, Steve. I’ll be interested to see how its new outlining feature works. I tried it out in an early beta, but I don’t think it was quite ready for use at that time.

Derek

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 13, 2010 at 02:22 PM

Not sure I like the GTD focus of this version.

Maybe I’m just letting the icons confuse me, but creating a new folder just seems to be a task list…but then when I create a new column, it also doesn’t automatically make a folder for it within the folder I’ve put that column in, which is one the things that initially got me excited about Zoot 5.

Huh. Perhaps I need to play with it more, but it feels more like a to-do list app than the free-form database of previous versions.

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jan 14, 2010 at 02:08 AM

So, the outlining functionality in Zoot 6—where is it applied and how do you access it?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 14, 2010 at 04:45 PM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>So, the outlining functionality in Zoot 6—where is it applied and how do you access
>it?

Well, truthfully, I’m still trying to figure out the outlining in Z6. There is a special folder for outlines in each database—so you can’t just create an outline in any folder. That’s not too confusing. But the actual outlining function feels very convoluted. I haven’t read any instructions yet. Perhaps with a clear step by step guide it won’t be too awkward. But right now, it’s a little disappointing.

Steve

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