CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include:

- never being satisfied with your current system of information management
- continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better
- purchasing every new PIM program you learn about
- and secretly hoping you won't find the perfect PIM, because then you'd have to stop looking for a better one

So, when someone speaks of succumbing to his or her CRIMP, it means acknowledging that they've purchased another PIM program even though they really don't think they need it.

There must be a 12-step program for over-coming CRIMP, but who really wants to? It's too much fun.

Steve Z.

Exactly Steve - those are precisely my symptoms! :-) - and right I don't want the medicine!

Regards, Ian

I must not be genetically CRIMPish as I was perfectly satisfied with GV until Win 95.

Cassius wrote:

I must not be genetically CRIMPish as I was perfectly satisfied with GV until Win 95.

That's a very excellent observation. I too was a big fan of GrandView and probably would still be a contented GV user myself. Perhaps we've discovered the precursor to this dread affliction. Once you've tasted the perfection of GV, you can never be satisfied with any other outliner/PIM.

Steve Z.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information
management purchasing. Symptoms include:

I am not sure whether it concerns an early or advance stage of CRIMP but there is one more essential symptom:
- a hope that computer can do the job instead of you...

Wojciech

man, man, man ...
I finally knew what's wrong with me ... my psychiatrist almost quit his job puzzled on my symptoms.
I think I have the severe form of it...