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InfoSelect 2007 - Experiences?
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Posted by quant
Jun 17, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Chris Murtland wrote:
>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).
at $250, a little bit expensive to use is as a “basic outline of topics and notes” :)
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 17, 2007 at 10:25 PM
quant wrote:
>at $250, a little bit expensive to
>use is as a “basic outline of topics and notes” :)
Very true - of course, if you are an owner of a former version, upgrades are $99.
Posted by Cristina Ramos
Jun 18, 2007 at 01:48 AM
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>What is
>your experience with InfoSelect files: do you put everything into one file or do you
>split your content into different files?
You have to split them. At least when they grow over 2Mb you receive messages from the programme advising you to split the files.
And if you’re like me, I ended up with hundreds of files. But I don’t use it anymore. Although I think it’s very powerful, it takes some time to learn how to use every feature to take advantage of it.
Cristina in Lisboa, Portugal.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jun 18, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Dominik
>Is the search in
>InfoSelect still very fast when you are using it with huge files (>10 mb)?
Yes. On my 2 GHz machine, there is no difference between searching a single 2 MByte database or all my databases (over 30 MByte).
>What is
>your experience with InfoSelect files: do you put everything into one file or do you
>split your content into different files?
Over the years, I split my databases into a number of smaller (a few hundred to 8 MByte) files. Usually, I only have those open that I need for my work.
My reasons for splitting the database into several files:
a) A practical one: The folder tree gets crowded and difficult browse when you have a lot of stuff inside IS. Splitting the data into several files that I open as I need them, makes it easier to navigate the tree.
b) An irrational one: I feared that I might all of my data in case the IS database got corrupt. But in over 10 years of using IS, I haven’t lost any piece of data. No file corruption or anything comparable.
>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.
2 years ago, when everyone talked about metadata and tags, I thought I’d need that, too. I came up with a simple workaround: I put the metadata at the end of each note. To be able to search for metadata, I added a line starting “TAG: ” for every tag - this way, I could search for “TAG: encryption” for example. I stopped adding metadata, however, as I found that I seldomly used metadata search.
Regarding the comments of other members here:
I use IS only as data repository. I have no need for the e-mail client and for the calender and todo list features. And unfortunately, the web capture feature (the Transporter) has become less useful than in older versions: Sometimes formatted data from web pages that I “transport” to IS using the Transporter or the Windows clipboard is completely garbled, so I have to paste the data first into Word or Notepad, CTRL+C again before I paste it into IS. Last week, I encountered an even stranger phenomenon: When copying data from a number of e-mails (in The Bat), IS did not display the text copied and pasted but a strange text string (when pasting into Notepad, the text from the mail was correct). So: To avoid this behaviour I got Surfulator.
Franz
Often I use Word or Notepad as
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 18, 2007 at 02:51 PM
I’ve been a registered user of IS for several years—since version 4, I think. Each time I upgrade, I end up feeling cheated because the upgrades are so expensive… that darned CRIMP. Here’s my view: IS might be the software I use if I were allowed only one piece of software, because it has so many functions packed inside its coding. But almost every one of its functions (with the exception of its lightning searches) is done better—far better—by other programs. It’s just that you have to mix and match some. So, if your goal is minimizing the number of programs you rely upon for information management, IS could be a good choice. If you want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness, I think a combination of other programs would work better.
Steve Z.