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Posted by Bob Mackreth
Mar 19, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>
>I prefer MI for straight text because it has a simpler
>interface. But the main thing is that its approach to user-defined key words is more
>elegant than UR’s.
>
>If MI actually saved and indexed the web pages clipped from your
>browser, rather than simply linking to them, and if it overcame the problem of not
>automatically
>going to the web tab when a web page is selected from the tree, much of
>the rationale for using UR would be lost.
>
>I believe that MI is just that close to
>competing with UR. UR does have a superior metadata capability, but if one doesn’t
>need all of that capability, then I’d think with the changes mentioned above, and MI’s
>cleaner interface, MI would give UR a good run for its money.
I am eagerly awaiting MI 4.0… fingers crossed and all. The road map on the Milenix forum hints that it may have substantial improvements to its treatment of web pages; perhaps that will resolve your concerns, Daly.
My main wish for improvement relates to the “sluggishness” which several users have recently complained about on the Milenix forum. I believe it has to do with the indexing process… for example, last night I was using the auto-paste function to input medium-sized blocks of ASCII text into a MyInfo topic. The text blocks were typically in the 3 or 4 page size range, simple ASCII text, but each transfer took 30 seconds or more, during which time MyInfo essentially locked up.
Similarly, cutting and pasting several documents from one topic to another can be an excruciatingly slow process- sometimes a matter of several minutes, all the while the legend, “Deleting and indexing documents” showing in the status bar.
If version 4 eliminates this problem, I will be an especially happy camper, since I am thoroughly pleased with MyInfo in all other respects.
Bob