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Posted by jimspoon
Oct 5, 2012 at 04:23 AM
Saw a press release for this one ... just thought I’d pass it along.
I checked out the screenshots. It seems to have some nice export options ... but offhand I don’t see anything to tempt me to try it. I could be wrong, though, and it may meet some others’ needs.
http://www.memo-book.net/en/overview.html
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 5, 2012 at 07:39 PM
It reminds me a bit of Infohesive which was focused in producing eBooks and HTML Help files. The interface has plenty of toolbars, but seems to be well designed.
From a brief look I didn’t see much that makes it stand out, with the exception of the languages supported by the spell-checker which really plentiful http://www.memo-book.net/en/features.html
Other than that, I’m happy that ‘classic’ desktop software of this kind is still being developed. Some telltale signs point to Germany once again, even if officially the company is based in Hong Kong.
Posted by Donovan
Oct 7, 2012 at 01:10 AM
It reminds me of the old TexNotes. It looks like Peter could have written this program it’s so very similar. I wonder whatever happened to Peter at GemX? I believe he sold the company and they went through a rough transition. Their new products (or renamed) aren’t too bad. If one needed a full-blown PIM with a built-in high-quality outliner, it would be hard to beat their ‘Harmony’ program. Really, does anyone know what happened to Peter? Is he still developing similar software? I wonder about him now and then. Years ago, TexNotes was the first multi-pane outliner I ever used.
Posted by jimspoon
Nov 12, 2013 at 04:30 PM
ran across this one again without realizing I’d seen it and posted about it before.
it’s up to version 6.4.
The UI looks polished. The export options seem pretty good. It also has an interesting feature - each “document” can have a “virtual file system” attached to it - not just attached files, but files arranged in a tree hierarchy. I don’t know how useful that would be, though. At $66, seems a bit pricey for what it is.
http://www.memo-book.net/en/features-en.html
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 12, 2013 at 05:32 PM
jimspoon wrote:
>each “document” can have a “virtual file
>system” attached to it - not just attached files, but files arranged in
>a tree hierarchy. I don’t know how useful that would be, though.
I can think of several instances where this feature could can in handy:
- CRM: each document is a customer and the virtual file system holds all interactions, quotes, invoices etc.
- Project management (for minor projects): each document is a project and the virtual file system holds all relevant documents in an organised fashion.
- Project management (for major projects): the full database represents the project, tree folders represent work packages, where each document is a task and the virtual file system holds all relevant documents
- Campaigns: each document is a campaign and and the virtual file system holds the mailing list, the mail templates, additional notes
In fact, I would say that it is a severe limitation that most PIMs cannot attach more than one file to a node. There are other exceptions of course, e.g. TheBrain and MyBase.
For one, gathering many files under one node is a good way to de-clutter the tree.