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Posted by Guido
Oct 24, 2007 at 04:09 PM
Hello all,
having read nearly all posted topics in this forum, I really wonder that whizfolders ( http://www.whizfolders.com) doesn’t appear to capture more attention.
After one month of working with connected text, I decided to change to whizfolders that combines the flexibility of a wiki and the hierarchical structure of an outline. Both elements are, as I suppose, indispensable for effective information processing and organization.
As a lawyer, I need clear structures but, on the other hand, different items have to be connected one to another. When working with connected text, a topic easily grew up to 10 pages or more, so it was difficult to build a consistent tree - structure that could allow me to deal with that mass of information.
On the other hand, pure outliners do not allow to interconnect topics one to another.
Whizfolders even allows to link words in an item commentary to other words. For doing that in connected text, I had to make an “anchor” what I found a little annoying on the long run.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30 PM
I’m with you on this one Guido. I resisted contributing to the ConnectedText discussions because I knew I must be missing something - I couldn’t really understand the attraction of software that requires users to learn notational rules to use a it.
I suppose it’s cyclical. I had to learn tags to send printing commands using my first word processor (PCWrite) until WYSIWYG versions came along. Then HTML required learning until programs came along to allow WYSIWYG html page creation. Wiki systems are the same and I suppose XML will go the same way.
I don’t actually use the wiki abilities in Whizfolders very much, but they are easy to use if I do need them, and the program itself is powerful and intuitive. For me the proof of suitability of a program is whether I actually use it without forcing myself to, and Whizfolders is one I use all the time.
Graham
Posted by quant
Oct 24, 2007 at 05:15 PM
Guido wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>having read nearly all posted topics in this forum, I really wonder that
>whizfolders ( http://www.whizfolders.com) doesn’t appear to capture more
>attention.
I have the same feeling about UltraRecall, with custom attributes/templates/saved searches/forms/hoisting and second to none Customer support it is a product hard to beat!
But at the same time I think to myself, that it’s not me who is losing for not using such a great product ;-) and great products don’t really need to be advertised or talked about
How many times did you see a commercial on Bentley or Aston Martin ;-)
Posted by Ken Ashworth
Oct 24, 2007 at 05:48 PM
quant wrote:
>
>How many times did you see a commercial
>on Bentley or Aston Martin ;-)
You mean besides the numerous feature films - James Bond.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 24, 2007 at 06:32 PM
First of all, I will acknowledge that any software that works for you is good software. So my objections to Whizfolders are strictly about my own relationship to the application and not a general criticism.
That being said, I find Whizfolders way too busy to be a comfortable writing environment. I own a license and have tried to use it several times, but there’s just too much going on. Several windows open simultaneously, and there are rows and rows of tool bars. I much prefer a cleaner GUI for my writing space. PageFour is nice, but I must admit that I frequently turn to a plain text application—Notetab—because it strips away any surpufluous buttons and panes.
I want to like Whizfolders. I admire the thought put into it. But I just can’t get there.
Steve Z.