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Posted by Ike Washington
Jul 11, 2007 at 01:30 AM
Anyone have any views on Whizfolders Deluxe? Is it worth the price? Double the price of Whizfolders Pro, $80 seems a bit steep to me.
I’m evaluating the v 5.6.3 Pro trial as a place to compose short non-academic writing and like it (a lot) and expect to be happy with version 6 Pro, available to paid users only.
Just wondering about the v 6 Deluxe version. Do tables, keywords and templates make any great difference to your Whizfolder experience?
Tables - nice but not necessary for me. Templates - I can add boilerplates using other apps. I’m most curious about keywords. I use tags, categories, keywords wherever I can. Is it easy to keyword individual words, pars in Whizfolders Deluxe? Whole topics? Justifies the price?
Ike
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jul 11, 2007 at 08:29 PM
> Anyone have any views on Whizfolders Deluxe? Is it worth the price? Double the price of Whizfolders Pro, $80 seems a bit steep to me.
Coincidentally, I had just been looking at the specs for both and thinking the same thing. The comment that updates to the Pro version will only contain bug-fixes within the two-year free period, and not new features (aka “upgrades”) like the Deluxe version, is also a bit ominous, IMO. See: http://www.whizfolders.com/compareeditions.aspx?did=mws
It looks as though the WF people may be trying to reposition their product in the market. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it also gives the impression that the Pro version is being put firmly on the back burner.
Derek
Posted by Matty
Jul 11, 2007 at 09:54 PM
My understanding of the difference is that the Pro version is basically version 5 and will simply not be improved in the future. The Deluxe is the version that is actively being developed. So, if the pro version does everything you want, don’t spend the money. On the other hand, if you are posting on this site its hard to imagine not wanted to get the updates as they come out.
I bought the Deluxe version after first seeing whizfolders referenced on this forum. I am extremely happy with it. I just couldn’t get my head around programs like zoot and UR. Whizfolders is very straight forward, nimble, and, seemingly, rock solid. $80 did seem like a lot of money for the program, but it does what I need it to do and the learning curve for using it is very reasonable.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jul 12, 2007 at 09:18 AM
Matty wrote:
I am extremely happy with it. I just couldn’t
>get my head around programs like zoot and UR. Whizfolders is very straight forward,
>nimble, and, seemingly, rock solid. $80 did seem like a lot of money for the program,
>but it does what I need it to do and the learning curve for using it is very reasonable.
I agree, and would be happy to pay that price too (though my upgrade was free). Not just because of the software (which is very good but hampered by being built around the Microsoft rtf engine, limiting some of its possibilities), but for the support offered. Sanjay, the developer, answered every single query of mine promptly, made every change I requested promptly, and provided a support which is worth far more to me than any of the extra features less well supported software (to put it charitably) can provide.
Graham
Posted by Ike Washington
Jul 12, 2007 at 10:19 AM
My slight irritation with Whizfolders, the reason why I’m whining about the price, is that the trial software isn’t the latest version. According to Sanjay’s blog, this should change any day now.
In the meantime, and you crimpers will appreciate this, I’m left with a trial I like and a burning desire to get hold of the improved version - just a click away if I whip out my credit card. And there’s an even better version which again I can only experience if I buy it first - and it’s double the price…
Goes against my shareware habits to buy without trialling first… but I’d like to support a good developer and I’m keen (to say the least) to try the new features. And so I find myself in crimper’s limbo and venting here.
The software itself, the old version, is great. As a writing environment rather than a full-blown PIM.
Re earlier forum criticisms: I don’t have any problem with the number of folders; shortcuts fly me from one window to the others quite well. I find the buttons, their number and colors, a bit much, but I’m getting used to them, don’t find them too distracting.
I’m happy to pay extra for hard-working developers. I just want to know how the extra features in the deluxe version work in practice.
Ike