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Posted by thouqht
May 22, 2018 at 03:43 PM
Great responses in here, thank you. Yes, I’m hesitant about OneNote’s future as well… my hope is that they simply bring the UWP version up to a general feature parity with the desktop version or perhaps even make it stronger… if it had a basic tagging functionality it would be so much better.
I’ll have to look into MyInfo more along with maybe Ultra Recall. I’m tempted by Connected Text and Infoqube, but their learning curve has me a bit worried. I invested in learning and customizing Vim and it was a great move. The thing is that Vim is definitely not going to disappear and is fairly ubiquitous… it seems like CT and IQ require a similar investment but make me worry about the long term a bit more.
WSP - what are the notable differences in MyInfo v7?
Posted by WSP
May 22, 2018 at 05:33 PM
I gather the rule for beta testers is that you’re not supposed to blab about the stuff you’re testing, but I can certainly report that everything will happen much faster and more efficiently in the next version of MyInfo, mainly because Petko is switching over to a superior underlying database software. Basically he has brought over nearly all existing features, and the UI will be very similar; but he is also adding some important new capabilities such as creating sections within a notebook.
I think it will be wonderful when it’s finished, but if you’ve had any dealings with Petko in the past, you’ll know that he moves very slowly and cautiously. That can lead to some frustration among users of MyInfo, but on the other hand you can be confident he will not introduce any untested or injudicious novelties in his software.
Posted by Listerene
May 23, 2018 at 12:53 AM
Depends on what you want to do but TreePad is the great-grandaddy of the category and it does everything that I’ve ever wanted it to do; easily and simply, from organizing notes to word processing.
Posted by Paul J. Miller
May 23, 2018 at 10:10 PM
For a long time now I have been looking for the perfect note taking program, I have been spending lots of money getting licenses for programs which I thought were promising and passing of the results to the readers of my blog in the form of reviews which other people may or may not find informative.
Faced with so many different note taking programs it is easy to feel anxiety caused by the plethora of choices available. I kept asking myself ‘Will I make the right choice?’, the underlying assumption was that there is an optimum choice which does not involve any compromise if only I could find it.
But I have realised that there are often situations where the optimum choice does not exist and where every choice is a compromise. Such is the nature of CRIMP.
I mainly use MyInfo and ConnectedText. But Petko is hinting that the next version of MyInfo will be ‘SaaS’ which is ‘Software as a Sentence’ or rental software. This is unacceptable and if MyInfo 7 is a rental version I will not be upgrading.
Eduardo says that ConnectedText has not been abandoned it is just been put in ‘maintenance mode’ so he will fix bugs when they arise but version 6 will be the last version. I am not so sure because he has been absent from the CT forum for a long time now. He re-appears briefly and infrequently, his last post was in January 2018.
I have been looking for a suitable replacement for MyInfo and ConnectedText.
InfoQube seems fairly interesting. It is quite difficult and intimidating for a new user but I have found a way to simplify it. The user interface is customisable and so I stripped out everything that wasn’t absolutely necessary and I was left with a two pane organiser similar in operation to MyInfo with the meta-data columns in the left hand pane similar to Myinfo but it has the dockable panes which can be detached and placed on the other monitor just like Ultra Recall and it has a form of hierarchical tagging similar to ConnectedText. It has the ability to assign different meta-data to different items like Ultra Recall and the capability to have saved searches like the $ASK command in ConnectedText (except the results appear in a table (grid) not on a page).
It still doesn’t have backlinks and it isn’t as easy as it should be to set up a link from one page to another but it’s a start.
Posted by WSP
May 24, 2018 at 12:03 PM
It seems to me that the program most similar to MyInfo is RightNote, though its tagging system is not as good and it doesn’t provide columns of attributes. On the other hand, RightNote is very speedy, can cope with extremely large files, and is clever at handling editable attachments. And I assume that to some users the ability to share files with Evernote is helpful.