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Posted by razorboy
Oct 6, 2012 at 02:58 AM
The one thing about Info Select which makes sense to my mind (sic,) is the appearance of folders and notes in the selector pain: namely, that they are not connected in the conventional and nearly universal Windows Explorer tree system. Rather, they “appear” unconnected, just so many topics and notes floating around, to be dragged or otherwise manipulated as need be. Don’t ask me why, but the connection lines of the tree system make me squirm. Sure, it’s all the same underneath, but software of the types we talk about here are all about how it “strikes” us, and the differences are in some cases pretty small.
Does anyone else here have any thoughts on this?
Thanks
Posted by jimspoon
Oct 6, 2012 at 04:43 AM
I can’t talk about Info Select ... i always avoided it because of high price and user dissatisfaction.
But I can relate to your aversion to certain things in programs. I have a prejudice against “mind map” programs - the graphical representations always seemed like chaos to me. I’m a tree and grid kind of guy - EccoPro and Infoqube are closest to what I want to see. Wikis make sense to me though ... just don’t show me a crazy map! haha.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 6, 2012 at 08:00 AM
jimspoon wrote:
>I’m a tree and grid kind of guy - EccoPro and Infoqube are closest to what I want to see.
What about Treesheets?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 6, 2012 at 02:15 PM
Razorboy,
If I understand what you’re saying correctly, I agree with you. I have appreciated the main interface of InfoSelect… it’s just the rest of the program that needs work. IS could get away with offering this “minimal categorization” scheme, partly because it has a lightning fast search function. Not every note needs to be “categorized” in the ways we discuss here, with tags, folders or categories. Sometimes I just want to make a note, save it and know that I’ll find it again easily.
And, yes, the “feel” of a program really matters to me a lot. It’s one reason I have never warmed up to UltraRecall.
Steve Z.
Posted by razorboy
Oct 6, 2012 at 04:06 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Razorboy,
>
>If I understand what you’re saying correctly, I agree with you. I have
>appreciated the main interface of InfoSelect… it’s just the rest of the program
>that needs work. IS could get away with offering this “minimal categorization”
>scheme, partly because it has a lightning fast search function. Not every note needs
>to be “categorized” in the ways we discuss here, with tags, folders or categories.
>Sometimes I just want to make a note, save it and know that I’ll find it again easily.
>And, yes, the “feel” of a program really matters to me a lot. It’s one reason I have
>never warmed up to UltraRecall.
>
>Steve Z.
~~~~ “minimal categorization”~~~~~ Yes, that’s the term, thank you.
I did a trial of IS10, got the heck rid of that after 3 days, and am now doing a trial of IS 9, which is good. (IS 10: Talk about a convoluted step backward…... .) Because there are so many options, I am also going to do trials of MyInfo, Debrief, ConnectedText, and WhizFolders. IS may still win the day, being “brain friendly” to me. But maybe not….. :<)