Recommendations for the first and hopefully last tool for a newbie

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Posted by cemski
Feb 27, 2013 at 04:25 PM

Hi folks,

im relatively new to this (two weeks) and was wondering about the existence of the forum and also about the amount of tools in the international/english range.
Also i heard the first time about CRIMP and reflecting my doing in the last two weeks i get a little fear i belong to this group….
but i only want to have the right tool to start with in the beginning…(is that what CRIMPs always say?)

If you search for this tools in the german language you just get a few results.
That’s why i started with CueCards but found on the same day MemoMaster and worked some days with it.
The limitation then was, that pdf could only be imported bit by bit.
Because of my lack of knowledge that there exists something like “outliner software and PIM, i then started to look for DMS (document management systems)
and knowledge management. So i took a look at CroadX, Bitfarm Archiv and Lexican. I tried Lexican but it is very unreliable.
The next day i read about Keynote and at the same moment about RightNote.

I decided then for RightNote and worked several days with it, but now found a big limitation.
In addition two my desktop pc i wanted to use my notebook.
Since i didnt import the files as normal notes (because i wanted to have my files indexed, including the pds files), i imported them as links.
I thought in that way i would have the option to work on the original files additionally.
Of course there would be a need of synchronizing those files.
Now it seems i cant set a relative path in RightNote.
I copied the whole folder where my documents came from on the notebook, but obviously the path to the files written in the notes was wrong.
Now i could update them bit by bit, which would kill me.
I then installed the portable version on the notebook, because i hoped there would be an option there, but couldnt find one.
Meanwhile i contacted the company and i’m waiting for a reply.
I read a post of someone who works with two computers on the same database when dropping it to dropbox.
But in my understanding i would have to drop the whole folder with my files also and this is about 3 GB.
I still doubt if that would work because i moved my dropbox folder on my pc to another location than “my documents”.

Another problem would be to only export the new or changed notes. I thought i could do it if i add tags like “needs sync”.
But i didnt find a way to export them all at once.

Now im searching for a (new) solution and read some days at this place.
I thought before i install and test several tools i could get some advice from you which tool would have the features i need.

So here is my feature wishlist:

Importing folders with their structure being reflected on the tree
Importing doc, txt, websites (html), pdf, must be indexed (searchable), optional jpgs
Exporting to rtf, doc html, pdf
Only export new/changed notes (maybe selected via tags), if possible in the original folder
(hyper)linking to other notes, documents and websites
Working with two computers on the data
tagging or priority or to-do

Optional:
Preview of pdfs and search results

Web-clipping (liked that very much in RightNote, when copied not only the raw text is imported but all the links worked for example. But maybe thats the normal case)

Contact form in the note, when the data fields could be exported
Need to explain this:
I get a lot of information by people/companies on the phone. I thought when writing the infos down it would be very good if the contact data like name, phone number etc.
could later be sent/extracted to another database (maybe csv or Excel) so i could import them in another tool like MyPhoneExplorer,
http://www.fjsoft.at/forum/viewforum.php?f=6&sid=9bccc21ab40003520d3bec83f8124a03
a tool i use with my android for my contacts and calendar, because i would contact them in the future being suppliers or customers.

In MemoMaster i could create a file mask but would only have the file mask and no possibility for writing down longer notes or edit them like in a RichView document.
In RightNote i could have done this maybe when using an Excel-like file. In RightNote it is called spreadsheet.
But then i wouldnt have all the possibilities to edit the notes as i would have when using a RichView file (hyperlinks for example).
I couldnt find a possibility to mix those functions in one file.

import or link to emails from Thunderbird

cti (Computer Telephony Integration) - well, would be a real luxury present but not really necessary as i could do it within MyPhoneExplorer.

Used system/files:
Windows XP SP3
Office 2003

I would be very grateful if you could help me with some hints which tool i should check!

Thank you very much!

cemski

Posted by airjackali
Jul 15, 2016 at 08:35 AM

I find MobileGo is a good replacement to MyPhoneExplorer. The program can’t detect my phone (samsung galaxy s7). But MobileGo did it successfully. If you have problem with the app, please have a look at this: http://www.androidphonesoft.com/android-assistant.html

Posted by Erikldes
Sep 23, 2016 at 07:28 AM

airjackali wrote:
I find MobileGo is a good replacement to MyPhoneExplorer. The program
>can’t detect my phone (samsung galaxy s7). But MobileGo did it
>successfully. If you have problem with the app, please have a look at
>this:
I personally use Android manager tool

Posted by Erikldes
Sep 23, 2016 at 07:29 AM

Posted by Erikldes
Sep 26, 2016 at 05:49 AM

Erikldes wrote:

>
>airjackali wrote:
>I find MobileGo is a good replacement to MyPhoneExplorer. The program
>>can’t detect my phone (samsung galaxy s7). But MobileGo did it
>>successfully. If you have problem with the app, please have a look at
>>this:
>I personally use Android manager tool：
http://www.android-mobile-manager.com/
http://www.androidfiletransfer.org/

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