InfoSelect 2007 - Experiences?

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Posted by Jon Polish
Jun 19, 2007 at 12:23 PM

Hi Quant and Dominik:

Quant:

I use IS and UR. For my purposes, the chief detraction from UR is its poor performance. Copying to UR takes seconds as the program does its thing with metadata and keywords. Compare this to IS and the difference is striking. Another area of poor performance realtes to getting things in and out or UR. Importing or exporting text files, rtf files, or mbx files takes forever. Again, try using IS as a benchmark and you will be amazed.

I have reported my observations on the UR forum.

Dominik:

With regard to the tab feature in UR, are you aware that you can pin a note in IS? These can be arranged in a variety of ways, including having them displayed separately on the Windows taskbar. This is th IS equivalent to tabs, and for me it works pretty well.

Jon

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 19, 2007 at 03:32 PM

Jon, IS does have some appealing features.

Pinning of notes is one. UR doesn’t even want to talk about having multiple windows. I hope MyInfo is going to have such a feature in its new version.

The late, lamented ADM had mutliple window capability, a feature that I and a few other stalwarts lobbied for.

I am at times inclined to look again at IS—but always end up being pissed off at a program that offers so much, but does so little of it really well—and then there’s the price.

The GUI is clunky and dated.

Transporter works—sometimes; read the reports on the IS forum.

I tried making a data table in the work space, and could not get it to work properly. Right asway, there disappeared for me one of the positives of using IS.

The company’s position on pricing reflects greed, especially for overall product quality and service provided. I do believe that Yuri, based on reports I have read, tried his best to give service—but I do have serious questions about senior management.

I use a combo of Surfulater for web clips, and have been amazed at how quickly and easily I have built up a well-organized web clip library. So I don’t need IS for that.

For general info management I use MI, but am waiting with anticipation for both MI’s new version, and for Zoot.

Real detailed academic stuff that I want to slice and dice easily I use MDE InfoHandler. At times I thought of saving all of my web material to files through the browser, and then using IH links, as I do with documents. Theoretically that could eliminate Surfulater (but I like using Surfulater), and a program such as MyInfo (but I like the metadata capability—which is being added to significantly according to item in MI blog yesterday). I also am partial to trees.

Now this posted has morphed into the mixed up mind of a crimper—ouph!

I could foresee a day when, depending on the Admiral’s artistry it comes down to Zoot, Surfulater, and InfoHandler. Info Handler would be much more useful tome if I could have specific open, windows that I could arrange and pin on the screen.

Zoot allows multiple open note windows—that would knock out WhizFolders, plus the article database approach provided by James Fallows, the national correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly.

UR, while powerful and good in many ways, just doesn’t turn my crank.

And, last word for ADM—it Arne and Eric (Bert and Ernie) could get their act and funds together, ADM still has the potential to take market share. What about it guys? Come on in out of the cold, and let us know what’s up.

I’d also like to know what Mike over at Ariadne is up to—Araidne, with many features similar to IS, had great potential.

Daly

Jon Polish wrote:
>Hi Quant and Dominik:
> >Quant:
> >I use IS and UR. For my purposes, the chief detraction
>from UR is its poor performance. Copying to UR takes seconds as the program does its
>thing with metadata and keywords. Compare this to IS and the difference is striking.
>Another area of poor performance realtes to getting things in and out or UR. Importing
>or exporting text files, rtf files, or mbx files takes forever. Again, try using IS as a
>benchmark and you will be amazed.
> >I have reported my observations on the UR
>forum.
> >Dominik:
> >With regard to the tab feature in UR, are you aware that you can pin
>a note in IS? These can be arranged in a variety of ways, including having them
>displayed separately on the Windows taskbar. This is th IS equivalent to tabs, and for
>me it works pretty well.
> >Jon

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 19, 2007 at 06:32 PM

Jon,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, I realized today how useful the pin feature is, very nice.
Even IS does not havee a metadata system I am much faster in IS than in UR especially when I have to quickly add a note or a todoo somewhere in the outline structure.

Dominik

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