Forum Posts Feed
InfoSelect 2007 - Experiences?
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 17, 2007 at 04:58 PM
I have downloaded a 30 day trial of is2007 yesterday and I am positively surprised of the overall stability and speed of the application.
One of the features I like very much in InfoSelect is its incremental and ligthning fast search.
Is the search in InfoSelect still very fast when you are using it with huge files (>10 mb)?
What is your experience with InfoSelect files: do you put everything into one file or do you split your content into different files?
InfoSelect does not have attributes or metadata. This is a reason for not using it (I am coming from ADM and I am using UR Professional today). But to be honest: There are really not many situations where I really need the metadata for search or filtering. Most of the time I am using the folder/topic hierarchy what can be achieved in IS as well.
My basic intention for using IS: note taking (project log/journalling), and day planning of my work.
Any comments and experiences with IS is welcomed.
Thanks!
Dominik
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jun 17, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Trial version? I thought Micro Logic distinguished itself by not having trial versions. Do you have the URL of the trial version download site?
Thanks,
Graham
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 17, 2007 at 06:45 PM
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jun 17, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Found it: http://www.miclog.com/cgi-local/passw_lookup.cgi?type=trial_request&prodmap_product_id=17
Easy to miss, bless them ...
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 17, 2007 at 07:04 PM
In my experience, the search remains fast even with very large files. This is because all of the data is loaded into memory.
I’ve used Info Select 2007 fairly heavily - mainly as a way to determine whether I can live in it as opposed to Ultra Recall. There are some things I prefer about Info Select: it functions as a decent one-pane outliner (when using one-line “Topics”), and it’s easier to work with subsets of your information, using filters, folders and tabs. Working seamlessly with multiple files in one outline makes sense to me, and there are lots of options for blocking sections of the outline from normal searches, keeping archive data files closed (until you need them), etc. And most operations are very fast.
Unfortunately, I always tend to get seduced into trying to use IS for absolutely everything, including email and web capture. I actually don’t mind the sort of primitive email interface, but what I do mind is that some outgoing messages are not reproduced faithfully - words are joined together at times, for instance. This simply makes me look bad and it’s really unacceptable. The web capture is basically not worth using - unless you just want to capture plain text.
I think as a basic outline of topics and notes using the core features, Info Select is pretty useful and has some unique ways to work with small subsets of a big mass of info. There is nothing that says you have to try to use all of the additional features (but I inevitably do).
When it’s all said and done, I still find using Ultra Recall to simply be a more satisfying experience, even though I do miss the ability to view a filtered outline.