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To CRIMP or Not To CRIMP: Depends on what you are doing.
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Posted by Cassius
May 16, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Oh, My! There are all those goodies out there. I’d love to try them all and actually use some. (Although, I admit, that as long as GrandView was easily useable, that is what I used most.)
However, now that I am retired, almost all of my PIMing (or is it PIMming?) is for personal information. Information that I might use for years to come. Thus, I have to restrain myself to using only a few PIMs and not be constantly using new ones. Moving data from an older PIM to a newer one is just too daunting.
One problem: Sometimes development of a favorite PIM ceases, so it is without the benefit of new technology, such as Tabs. Worse, it might not work properly, or at all, in a newer version of an operating system. Rumor has it that Windows 8 will be substantially different from its predecessors—-I’m worried.
One vital criterion is that one can export the information in a PIM to some standard format, such as rtf or html. One may still have ones information, but it will not necessarily be in an easily accessible form.
Oh! What to do?
Posted by quant
May 17, 2011 at 08:55 PM
What to do? Simple. Stick with one PIM and system, and be happy what you have.
You mention Win 8, who apart from M$ cares about it? XP does all you need, no need for Vista, 7, ... whatever ...
Posted by Cassius
May 17, 2011 at 10:19 PM
quant wrote:
>What to do? Simple. Stick with one PIM and system, and be happy what you have.
>You
>mention Win 8, who apart from M$ cares about it? XP does all you need, no need for Vista,
>7, ... whatever ...
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Quant, I agree and am still running XP. (GoBack won’t work in newer versions of Windows.)
But….eventually ones computer will die of old age and one may have no choice but to get a new one with a newer OS. (Like the human body—mine, for instance—eventually parts wear or stop working and replacements may not be available.)
Posted by MenAgerie
May 18, 2011 at 05:45 PM
I’m sorry people, but I have to ask this total newbie question… what is CRIMPing? I am sure I do it, but Ii cannot find anywhere what it stands for [I assume it is an acronym… } I have Googled for hours, I have sat stroking my beard for hours, I have asked family, friends, work colleagues [why do Americans call them coworkers?, sounds rude to me], the man who delivers my milk, the women at my grandson’s nursery… no one can enlighten me so I could be quietly all-knowing here on this forum…. so eventually, after much time-wasting, procrastination, rumination, trying many sources, etc., I have to reveal my naivete.
Jeff
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 18, 2011 at 05:56 PM
Jeff,
You’d been unlikely to find a definition for CRIMPing anywhere but on this forum. It’s a made up acronym that stands for Compulsive-Reactive Information Manager Purchasing. i.e. It’s what so many of us do here, because we are never satisfied with the information managers we currently use, so we continually look for better ones. It’s kind of an obsession.
Steve
MenAgerie wrote:
>I’m sorry people, but I have to ask this total newbie question… what is CRIMPing? I am
>sure I do it, but Ii cannot find anywhere what it stands for [I assume it is an acronym…
>} I have Googled for hours, I have sat stroking my beard for hours, I have asked family,
>friends, work colleagues [why do Americans call them coworkers?, sounds rude to me],
>the man who delivers my milk, the women at my grandson’s nursery… no one can
>enlighten me so I could be quietly all-knowing here on this forum…. so eventually,
>after much time-wasting, procrastination, rumination, trying many sources, etc.,
>I have to reveal my naivete.
>Jeff