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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 29, 2006 at 02:01 PM
Derek,
I have to confess that I don’t use CT very much, though I admire it a great deal. It is one of those applications that you really have to dedicate yourself to using—if I did, I believe I’d really find it very useful. But, without that dedication (to learning all its facilities and making it second-nature), it is easier to stick with the tried and true (for me, Zoot and MyInfo). CRIMP strikes again!
Steve
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Steve -
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>What do you find that you are using ConnectedText for these days? I like the
>plain-text aspects of personal wikis, but I still can’t find a job for them to do that my
>other programs don’t seem to cover. Maybe that is lack of imagination…:-)
>
>Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Dec 29, 2006 at 05:06 PM
Steve -
It’s like methods-driven research: “Great statistical technique… now what can I use it on?” Every time I look at personal wikis (I especially like their plain-text aspects) I rack my brains for a use to which I can put them. But Zoot plus GrandView currently seem to do most of what I need.
Derek
Posted by Manfred
Dec 30, 2006 at 04:20 AM
Well, one of the good things about a wiki (or wiki-like application) is that you do not have to create “hundreds” of files. Just three or four are enough, and you can interlink central concepts to whatever degree you want (or need).
I’ve been using it religiously almost since it first came out. My biggest file has 4754 entries (mostly fairly short, but some longer) and about 4800 revisions. It’s 9.63 MB large. It’s about as close to text as I want to get.
The application has never crashed. I would now find it very difficult to conduct my research without it. However, I am paranoid enough to worry about what would happen if it did.
Exporting the file to HTML is easy and fast. I do it regularly. So, I don’t really see the problem.
The newest version adds a “clipboard catcher” with various options that is at least as good as Ecco’s shooter or the Zooter. It even translates HTML into Wiki markup.
And no, I have no commercial interest in the program
Posted by Cassius
Dec 31, 2006 at 05:45 AM
A couple of days ago, I tried to send the CT developer the message below. I finally was able to send it to him. (My ISP is having problems.) I received a very prompt reply, which is worth posting here.
CT said, “We are working in a new licensing scheme. It will enable users to move CT to other computers easily. Note that today many users switch computer all the time and we provide new license. Regarding your concern, if we go out of business we guarantee a continuity path. As I said, one option for us is to remove the protection and make CT free.
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>Also, we are working in a USB version, that users can carry CT to everywhere.
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>Your message is important to us. Feedback is our main tool to drive our development.”
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Cassius wrote:
>I tried to send the CT vendor the following, but gave up after 5 tries:
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>Consider this scenario:
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>I purchase Connected Text to run on my new Toshiba laptop.
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>Seven years later, I have hundreds of Connected Text files and want to put them on a new computer.
>However, your company has gone out of business.
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>What do I do? Export, one-by-one, each of the hundreds of files to another format? With your license policy, you should
>have a batch conversion program.
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>-c
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 2, 2007 at 02:44 AM
Manfred -
What I meant to say was that I think we are probably using CT and Zoot in rather similar ways so that, at this stage, there is probably little to be gained by either of us in changing horses in mid-stream :-)
Derek