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Can we talk about Info Select?
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Posted by 22111
Feb 15, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Since I consider myself as an IMS “expert” - the quotes are there bec. I don’t know enough yet about corporate solutions -, you might ask yourself what’s my stance about IS. Well, I too I am lazy as most people are, and my trial of IS was brief: I was deeply impressed by its developer’s taking away numerous functions from loyal users/customers, and also by everything I heard about his ways of treating customers in general, and all this “abbreviated” my experience with that prog.
I’m not sure, but it could be possible that the developer not only sells ancient versions of his prog, but also exterminates any possible bug within those ancient versions, without forcing customers to “update” to newer - by many aspects inacceptable - versions, and if my wishful thinking is founded (in fact, I don’t know anything about it), this would be a stance unique world-wide, and then, why not start to seriously consider IS 7, for the time being, and attending something better ?!
This being said, IS is the eponym of sw whose own developer has, in time, become its premier undertaker, by stance, by politics, by the worst marketing you could ever imagine.
Now consider the comparative quality of IS about 10, 15 years ago, and you realize to which extent developers can become their fiercest enemies, and that of their own “child”.
Btw, the IS developer has been offering some other, cloud, product, which I consider to be complete rubbish…
Posted by tangobear
Mar 24, 2014 at 01:26 AM
Arnold wrote:
> Arnold -
> When you install the program do not accept the default directory, place
>it in c:\apps\ Win7 does not allow writing to the c:\Program Files\
>directory. This will solve most problems (including asking for your
>‘key’).
I run InfoSelect8 on Windows 7. When I ported it from XP I ran into the above problem and found a different workaround:
1. Put the data file (Overview.wd2) in your Documents folder, or some other folder you can write to.
2. Made a shortcut to that file, not the exe. Use that shortcut to run IS8.
I find IS8 indispensible after 12 years. I use other tools for everything except saving info in text. But I use it for that all day every day.
I haven’t seen anything that comes close:
- create and name a new note and start typing or cut/pasting in 4 seconds (with no mouse)
- nest notes in trees to unlimited depth, rearrange instantly and easily (with no mouse)
- search shows note count (how many still match) as you type. backspace and try again. Very powerful.
Hit enter when done and the whole app now sees just the matching notes. (still no mouse)
- backup is a single file to a USB (mine is 2.7 MB after 12 years)