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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 27, 2013 at 07:13 PM
Just a quick response to Mark: we’ve started to use the MailStore Server (http://www.mailstore.com) to archive (and retrieve) our e-mail, and it’s absolutely brilliant: very low resource requirements, various access methods (a desktop client for Windows, but also a very good web front end), and an excellent search engine. It’s saved us huge amounts of time and stress! It’s not expensive for what it does, either, in view of the fact it’s effectively a gigantic information repository. The server has various options for user/group management, including its own, but also support for Windows IDs, directory services and so on.
There’s also a very good free version (MailStore Home), which is just as powerful but runs as a straightforward Windows application (no server) and doesn’t have scheduling (the server scans your mailbox and downloads everything/the folders you choose at times of your choosing; it also indexes the e-mails and their attachments according - again - to your preferences). Both versions are compatible with a huge range of different mail services and protocols. Thoroughly recommended to all smaller businesses (and bigger ones, in fact).
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 27, 2013 at 07:15 PM
Oh, and it’s German, too, which - in my perhaps biased view - is a Good Thing.
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 27, 2013 at 09:53 PM
Wayne K wrote:
1) PDF Revu. I spent several frustrating years trying to find a good
>PDF mark-up tool. Now that I’ve found it, it has truly changed the way
>I work. When I have to do a job I often try to organize it so I can
>make maximum use of Revu just because I know things will go better that
>way. I use it at work all day nearly every day.
Wayne - I do my PDF annotations almost exclusively on the iPad these days (GoodReader, mainly), but I’m wondering, what is that “extra something” that would put PDF Revu above let’s say PDF XChange Viewer or Adobe Acrobat Pro?
Posted by Gorski
Feb 28, 2013 at 01:03 AM
Sadly, our corporate bureaucracy is just too big and far away to hope to convince it to adopt MailStore, even with the benefit of MailStore being German-made.
My company has a mail archiving system—adopted fairly recently though I don’t recall the name—but it’s slow crap. I also sometimes forward email to my personal Gmail just to be sure I can retrieve it later.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Just a quick response to Mark: we’ve started to use the MailStore Server
>(http://www.mailstore.com) to archive (and retrieve) our e-mail, and it’s
>absolutely brilliant: very low resource requirements, various access
>methods (a desktop client for Windows, but also a very good web front
>end), and an excellent search engine. It’s saved us huge amounts of time
>and stress! It’s not expensive for what it does, either, in view of the
>fact it’s effectively a gigantic information repository. The server has
>various options for user/group management, including its own, but also
>support for Windows IDs, directory services and so on.
>
>There’s also a very good free version (MailStore Home), which is just as
>powerful but runs as a straightforward Windows application (no server)
>and doesn’t have scheduling (the server scans your mailbox and downloads
>everything/the folders you choose at times of your choosing; it also
>indexes the e-mails and their attachments according - again - to your
>preferences). Both versions are compatible with a huge range of
>different mail services and protocols. Thoroughly recommended to all
>smaller businesses (and bigger ones, in fact).
>
>Cheers,
>Bill
Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Feb 28, 2013 at 08:45 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>What are your top 3 (outliner, PIM, writing, note-taking) tools right now? Do they form a toolchain (fit in
>a workflow)?
Coming late to this: My top three pieces of software more or less mimic the workflow I used to use in pre-PC (paper and pen) days:
(1) For data gathering and preliminary analysis, I use Idealist, an ancient free form textual database that I have been using since the late 1990s. It very effectively mimics the index card (Zettelkasten) systems used by academics to gather research data in the days before personal computers.
(2) For synthesis/outlining, I have recently switched to Freeplane (having previously used the free version of XMind for a number of years).
(3) For writing up, I mainly use Word (not my personal favourite among word processors, but I have to use it for editorial purposes since it is the de facto standard within the publishing industry).
Yours
Lawrence