Hi.

Info Select 10 has just been released. The new features are described here:
http://miclog.com/software/Beta-Features/is10bfeatures.html

The most important ones: ribbons (as in Office 2007/2010), faster search, dockable windows and pin-ups, floatable selector and panels, new calendar.

What's interesting is the passage at the bottom of the page: "By request of our customers to simplify Info Select, we have removed the following rarely used features:..."
But still no stripped-down IS just for notes storage (i.e. IS without e-mail and calendar and the bunch of features not needed in an info database).

Although I have been using IS for over 15 years, I will not get the update. I still keep my old databases in IS but moved to OneNote on my Windows machines (and Scrivener on my Mac) for taking new notes.

Anyone here moving to IS 10?

Franz

Franz,

Not I. And I was an avid fan from Tornado Notes on back in the days...

Three or four years ago I moved web pages to first to what is not WebResearch and then to Surfulater and general notes to UltraRecall. I have OneNote, too, but I use that primarily in tablet mode.

I never liked the licensing scheme -- $50 a year or the program would not function (even, as I understood it, to get your notes etc out). I always opted for the complete purchase.

And there were always the hassles -- the transporter did not work well many times and things had to be reformatted. The note field behaved very badly with Dragon NaturallySpeaking (incidentally, UltraRecall works like a dream here). And IS stored HTML links embedded in text in its own unique, non-standard system. Did I mention HTML email? It got to be too much. And support, well, forget support.

I was thrilled to learn that IS2007 worked with Windows7 so I could move to a new laptop and still postpone transferring notes and references. And for the years that I have done nothing about transferring notes only goes to underscore that information and thoughts do have a half-life.

Maybe, just maybe if IS 10 changes the old files with the proprietary HTML links into something readable by other programs with a simple copy and paste I might be interested. But I'm not really interested in finding that out.

Seasons Greetings and good cheer to everyone! Julie

Franz, there is an undertone to some of Jim's stuff, which seems to be along the line of blaming the customer. He refuses to deal with the fact that some aspects of IS seem to have never worked well for a significant number of people, or that for some people the quality of support has been very poor. I know there are many people who are happy with the program, but even they will often say they are only using a small part of the features, of the advertised capability.

My hunch is that this is likely the last release of IS we will see.

Daly


Franz Grieser wrote:

Hi.

Info Select 10 has just been released. The new features are described
here:
http://miclog.com/software/Beta-Features/is10bfeatures.html

The
most important ones: ribbons (as in Office 2007/2010), faster search, dockable
windows and pin-ups, floatable selector and panels, new calendar.

What's
interesting is the passage at the bottom of the page: "By request of our customers to
simplify Info Select, we have removed the following rarely used features:..."
But
still no stripped-down IS just for notes storage (i.e. IS without e-mail and calendar
and the bunch of features not needed in an info database).

Although I have been using
IS for over 15 years, I will not get the update. I still keep my old databases in IS but
moved to OneNote on my Windows machines (and Scrivener on my Mac) for taking new
notes.

Anyone here moving to IS 10?

Franz

And among the features listed as removed: "import / export (doc, xls, Outlook, Auto mode, HTML)."

Whaaaaat?! You now can't get data in or out of the program? Perhaps I am missing something about IS, but one of the most requested features on info manager forums is *expanded and enhanced* import/export functionality.

Franz Grieser wrote:

What's
interesting is the passage at the bottom of the page: "By request of our customers to
simplify Info Select, we have removed the following rarely used features:..."

Hi.

I must confess that I do not understand what's going on at Miclog. Stripping features that are essential for a PIM and claiming that the users wanted that - that's beyond me.

Franz

Blaming the customer for IS's issues is in this case sheer scapegoating. Even some long-time, loyal IS users are expressing their chagrin. It's clear management continues with the same arrogant, ignore the user philosophy which has got IS into this mess in the first place.

Re the apparent removal of import and export functions - it's been no secret for the last few months that users are looking for ways to lessen or end their relationship with IS by exporting data to such programs as Evernote, OneNote, or Surfulater. Maybe MicroLogic thought they could reduce the exodus by refusing exit visas!

Very sad.

Daly


Franz Grieser wrote:

Hi.

I must confess that I do not understand what's going on at Miclog. Stripping
features that are essential for a PIM and claiming that the users wanted that - that's
beyond me.

Franz

I just found out that v10 will not support Outlook I/O and I guess, after using IS since v1, we will look elsewhere. I need to sync with smart phones and the folks at IS continue to be arrogant programmers, ingoring their end user requests. Every support question I have ever had, and i may have asked maybe 4 question in 10 years, has been answered snotty. I guess this company will be going down the tubes with their attitude. I've been in the IT biz for over 30 years and I've seen (and worked for) companies driven by closed-minded developers that just didn't understand marketing and lost it, even though they had the foundation of excellent products. Give the end user what they need and you'll be successful. Try and give the end user what you THINK they need, or what you want to force on them, and you will fail.