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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 24, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Yes, this is one of the grand daddy info managers. In its early days, it
>was innovative. Now it is pretty unremarkable
Yet even today, there are not so many 3-pane outliners out there: Zoot, Sycon IDEA, Keepnote… any others?
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 24, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Zoot, Sycon IDEA, Keepnote… any others?
Plus UltraRecall which can be configured as a 3-pane outliner.
Posted by Olig
Nov 24, 2012 at 12:02 PM
I noticed that, too. It’s a shame because I always liked that feature, back in the day. It still would be handy and might make this worth the $5 they’re charging at Bits. Now though? Color me unimpressed.
Interesting that this has gone from being the market/feature leader to ‘is this thing still around? Why?’ Sort of like Wordperfect, isn’t it?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 24, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Yet even today, there are not so many 3-pane outliners out there: Zoot,
>Sycon IDEA, Keepnote… any others?
I can’t come up with any others for Windows off the top of my head. There are some for Mac. DevonThink and MacJournal being two that come to mind right off.
My point about Black Hole wasn’t to suggest that it isn’t a good product. Just that it hasn’t advanced much in ten years. For example, I don’t think you can store anything but plain and rich text documents in it. No PDFs for example (I could be wrong, but this doesn’t appear to be mentioned on the web site). There’s nothing wrong with this. In fact, I could make the case that it is a good thing. Probably makes the code simpler, and the product more reliable, as long as you don’t need to store other types of documents.
Steve Z.
Posted by Steve
Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Yup, I finally got the chance to get over to Bitsdujour today. What I think is exciting is someone purchased it that has used the program for years. They have a vested interest in it besides the money.
Now, as for future development and plans thereof I would not expect any “cutting edge” or syncing to multiple formats. This developer is focused on business products in a more focused way than even Lincoln Beach was/is. Business users (like myself, kind of) are most interested in the basics covered very well. We want solid support and programs that just….. work.
Steve
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Steve wrote:
>>The publisher of Black Hole is Lincoln Beach Software;
>>http://www.lincolnbeach.com/blackhole.asp
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>In Bits du Jour it has the following conversation:
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>Robert Bull: Is this the same product as sold by Lincoln Beach Software?
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>Chris Starre: Yes, It was originally developed by Lincoln Beach
>Software. We bought the rights and source code from them. We have been
>working on it and have released this under our product line. We offer
>full support on this and all of our products. I personally had been
>using this software for the last decade or so. When it became available,
>it was in our best interest to purchase it and bring it back to life and
>current once again.
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