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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 14, 2007 at 05:10 AM
Jan, the hot spots in IS are equivalent to Ariadne’s accelerator—in fact, I think to a large extent Mike has been influenced heavily by IS. The new Ariadne work space that Mike developed reflects IS as well.
The IS sorting bin is not the same as Ariadne’s, however. IS’ sorting bin is a separate window that you can drag items to from the selector—in essence creating a short cut.
I like Ariadne a lot, but it is again in a development hiatus, and we don’t know when it will begin again. Further, one of its key features, the columns, which are advanced when compared with IS’s selector grid, have serious deficiencies. Mike has agreed the columns need work, and that will be dealt with in the next development phase.
Ariadne has another deficiency—a serious one in my view—and that is that you can have only one file, and one copy of Ariadne. Thus when the outline gets especially long, even with hot spots and its version of a hoist, it becomes very difficult to work with.
IS allows various files, which can either be opened separately, or together. So even though IS doesn’t have a hoist, it is more workable. IS does need to get a hoist, and cloning.
I have always found the spacing of the Ariadne outline a little less than optimal for my eyes, even though Mike greatly improved many upgrades ago. I have the same problem, incidentally, with UltraRecall, which unlike Ariadne, doesn’t offer the option of changing size of type in the tree unless you do it at the level of Windows.
I do like the feel of Ariadne, and the comments appearing on the same level as the notes is both practical and elegant the way Mike has done. And it means that though you can’t associate a note with a column record, you can use the comment. Of course in MI you get the note and the column, the way one does in ADM also.
Ah—all these pros and cons. It is a wonder that us CRIMPERS get any work done at all.
Cheers,
Daly
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
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>Daly de Gagne wrote:
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>>Franz,
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>>The hot spots and sorting bin have a similar
>function—but not exactly the
>>same. I think using both to advantage makes good
>sense.
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>Daly, just to remind you & to inform Franz that Ariadne has many of these same
>functions at a fraction of the price.
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>Jan Rifkinson
>Ridgefield, CT USA
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Daly, Maybe all the nuances you mention are so but I decided—despite my own words which I’m forced to eat today—I would not pay +/- $250 for such a program since there are so many more fairly priced alternatives.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield, CT USA
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 15, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Jan, I quite agree with you—$250 is way too much for a program such as IS, especially considering that some of the mudules don’t work all that well, and that because of that, or other equally legitimate reasons, very few people seem to be using all the features. For example, although a few people seem to like it, I would never use the email module because it is just too clunky compared with virtually any other email product—including the free gmail which I really like—that I have ever tried.
Yesterday, just after responding to your post, I attempted to set up a workspace grid. I set some of the culumns for dates and numbers, and the little up and down arrows appeared on the right side of the cell—unfortunately no matter what I did, including checking with the help file, I could not get them to work.
Even though it is not aesthetically pleasing in the usual sense, I do like the visual appearance of IS because it works with my eyes. I like that I can individually change a tree item’s colour, etc., which I cannot do in MyInfo, although I have asked for it in version 4, and hope it happens.
So $250 is too much. I pay the yearly subscription fee. My take is that the $250 fee is meant more for corporations—I have been told that Jim Lewis, the developer, had got a pretty good small business and corporate client base for IS. Business has always been willing too pay too much for products on the basis that 1) they can deduct them as expenses, and (2) they can pass the cost on to customers. But that’s a rant for another day (grin).
Daly
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>Daly, Maybe all the nuances you mention are so but I decided—despite my own words
>which I’m forced to eat today—I would not pay +/- $250 for such a program since there
>are so many more fairly priced alternatives.
>
>—
>Jan Rifkinson
>Ridgefield, CT USA
Posted by gunars
Feb 15, 2007 at 03:34 PM
>So $250 is too much. I pay the yearly subscription fee.
My main objection to the subscription fee is that IS stops working as a full product if you don’t renew your subscription and reverts to a read-only mode (with no export capability). I ran into this with IS 8 - the web page did not indicate this restriction until I complained at great length about it. Had I known, I never would have gotten a subscription. I’d rather just buy an upgrade to a new version if there are sufficient improvements to warrant it.