What do YOU do?

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Posted by Cassius
May 10, 2008 at 03:45 PM

1. A great new, affordable PIM has appeared and you love it. You intend to use it for all your new projects, but what do you do for ongoing projects for which you’ve accumulated a fair amount of information in another PIM?

2. You accumulate a LOT of information for personal, long-term use. Do you store it in a PIM that may become moribund or unusable with a new version of your operating system, or do you do something else? If “something else,” what?

-c

Posted by Manfred
May 11, 2008 at 01:33 AM

“1. A great new, affordable PIM has appeared and you love it. You intend to use it for all your new projects, but what do you do for ongoing projects for which you’ve accumulated a fair amount of information in another PIM?”

I would export the information from the old PIM and import it into the new one. This presupposes, of course, that you can conveniently export from the “old” one, and conveniently import into the “new” one. You would not have chosen a PIM (new or old) that does not have have excellent import and export capabilities, would you?

“2. You accumulate a LOT of information for personal, long-term use. Do you store it in a PIM that may become moribund or unusable with a new version of your operating system, or do you do something else? If “something else,” what?”

Ditto. I would not entrust my information to anything that does not allow me to extract the information as text or html files, which should be accessible in anything that’s likely to appear within the next ten years or so.

Manfred

Posted by Thomas
May 11, 2008 at 07:12 AM

1. Import into a new one, if possible. Import/export facilities are major factor for me when choosing new software.

2. It must have good export capabilities, if not it’s quite improbable I would have started using it.
I’ll usually not switch to new operating system unless absolutely necessary.

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