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Posted by JohnK
Feb 4, 2008 at 04:43 PM
Infohesive is yet another information organiser.
No, I’m not sure the world needs another one either, but this one is being put together by 2brightsparks, the people behind SyncbackSE, my backup software of choice. So Infohesive might be worth a look. It’s in public beta at the moment:
From the web site:
InfoHesive Beta Launched
After significant development and in-house testing 2BrightSparks is excited to announce the beta release of InfoHesive, a program that provides an easy way to organize, retrieve, and share information.
http://2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4527
Posted by dan7000
Feb 4, 2008 at 05:46 PM
They have no information on their website about what this product is, and ironically that caused me to download it to check it out.
Verdict: it’s pretty impressive. I’ve only tried it for a couple of minutes, but it has a very professional look and feel, and has a lot of advanced functionality like a choice to either link or embed files, a solid rich text editor, and even macros. Although the tutorial doesn’t mention it, I tried drag-and-drop of both files and firefox urls, and both worked. A good new entry.
Posted by Derek Cornish
Feb 4, 2008 at 06:58 PM
Not sure how innovative it is, but at least the interface is very well designed with decent professional-looking icons.
Derek
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Feb 4, 2008 at 08:02 PM
Yes it does seem like a good start, a standard 2-pane outliner with the ability to create HTML-like help files (not real ones). HelpMaker is a similar product but which can generate real help files.
As with most 2-pane outliners, no filtering of the tree-pane, so suitable for small quantities of items.
Apart from drag-drop, I/O is non-existant and drag-drop IE web content caused a GPF :-(
BTW, it uses the same editing component as SQLNotes (ksdhtmledit.ocx). So this one is not based on obsolete RTF, but on HTML.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 5, 2008 at 03:02 PM
I agree with those who say Infohesive has a nice, clean user interface. It looks like a well-thought out and developed application. It does beg the question, why bother? I don’t really see anything new or innovative here.
Then there is a name… for a company that calls itself 2brightsparks, I would have expected a better name. Infohesive? Sounds like a household cleaning product. Actually, reminds me of Surfulator… another fine piece of software with a goofy name.
Steve Z.