MyInfo 7 now available
Started by WSP
on 12/18/2020
WSP
12/18/2020 8:13 pm
I just noticed today that MyInfo 7 is at last being offered on the Web, with a thirty-day free trial available:
https://www.myinfoapp.com
I've been using it with pleasure for some months now.
Bill
https://www.myinfoapp.com
I've been using it with pleasure for some months now.
Bill
Daly de Gagne
12/20/2020 8:21 pm
Bill, I have just looked over the MI7 website, and haven't seen a mention of columns. Am I correct to assume that MI still supports columns?
All in all, just looking at the website, it seems there have has been an impressive number of positive changes. I need to dig out my Windows computer to actually test MI7?
What would you say are the most important and/or best changes?
Thanks.
Daly
WSP wrote:
All in all, just looking at the website, it seems there have has been an impressive number of positive changes. I need to dig out my Windows computer to actually test MI7?
What would you say are the most important and/or best changes?
Thanks.
Daly
WSP wrote:
I just noticed today that MyInfo 7 is at last being offered on the Web,
with a thirty-day free trial available:
https://www.myinfoapp.com
I've been using it with pleasure for some months now.
Bill
WSP
12/21/2020 2:29 am
Daly, although I use MyInfo (and other similar apps) heavily, I am aware that most of my work consists of fairly simple notes and some bibliographical lists. Hence I'm sure there are many advanced procedures in MyInfo that I simply don't turn to very often.
But these are the features that I now use regularly:
(1) In earlier versions, if you wanted to break down a group of notes into several sections, you had to create separate notebooks and keep them all open at once. Now you just create one notebook, and within that notebook you create multiple sections, with the tabs (all, if you wish, pleasantly rendered in different colors) running across the top of the note column.
(2) The program is for the most part tremendously speedy and can handle very large notes.
(3) You can attach other documents (such as PDF or Word) to individual notes, and then words or phrases in those documents will be found when you do a search of the full notebook.
(3) The (left) column that lists the titles of notes can now be organized in various sophisticated ways — some involving the "perspectives" menu.
(4) You can, if you wish, display and manipulate all tags in an optional column at the right. I found that useful occasionally.
(5) This may sound trivial, but sometimes I accidentally create two variants of a tag. If I want to combine them into a single tag, it's now very easy.
(6) If you've used MyInfo in the past, you will already know that Petko is exceptionally sensitive to visual matters. MyInfo 7 is simply the best-looking app that I use. That may sound trivial to some people, but when I sit in front of it for hours at a time, it's wonderful to be looking at such an attractively-designed app.
(7) Petko remains one of the most courteous and helpful developers I've ever encountered. One trivial example: a month or two ago I complained on the MyInfo forum that I was having trouble with the left-hand margins in notes pasted from Evernote, and within two days Petko had released an update that fixed it!
I think you'll enjoy trying out version 7. MyInfo of course still has some weaknesses — such as lack of OCR of pasted texts and no iPhone or iPad versions — but it is an outstanding app.
But these are the features that I now use regularly:
(1) In earlier versions, if you wanted to break down a group of notes into several sections, you had to create separate notebooks and keep them all open at once. Now you just create one notebook, and within that notebook you create multiple sections, with the tabs (all, if you wish, pleasantly rendered in different colors) running across the top of the note column.
(2) The program is for the most part tremendously speedy and can handle very large notes.
(3) You can attach other documents (such as PDF or Word) to individual notes, and then words or phrases in those documents will be found when you do a search of the full notebook.
(3) The (left) column that lists the titles of notes can now be organized in various sophisticated ways — some involving the "perspectives" menu.
(4) You can, if you wish, display and manipulate all tags in an optional column at the right. I found that useful occasionally.
(5) This may sound trivial, but sometimes I accidentally create two variants of a tag. If I want to combine them into a single tag, it's now very easy.
(6) If you've used MyInfo in the past, you will already know that Petko is exceptionally sensitive to visual matters. MyInfo 7 is simply the best-looking app that I use. That may sound trivial to some people, but when I sit in front of it for hours at a time, it's wonderful to be looking at such an attractively-designed app.
(7) Petko remains one of the most courteous and helpful developers I've ever encountered. One trivial example: a month or two ago I complained on the MyInfo forum that I was having trouble with the left-hand margins in notes pasted from Evernote, and within two days Petko had released an update that fixed it!
I think you'll enjoy trying out version 7. MyInfo of course still has some weaknesses — such as lack of OCR of pasted texts and no iPhone or iPad versions — but it is an outstanding app.
WSP
12/21/2020 2:38 am
A quick revision of my last sentence. Pasted text from the Web or another app is of course easily recognized by MyInfo; but what I long for is the ability to paste an image of text (such as the digital image of a newspaper article) and then have that converted to editable text if I wish -- the sort of thing I do often in OneNote.
Bill
Bill
MenAgerie
12/21/2020 4:05 pm
I find this very helpful; note links... type @ then begin typing, an incremental search shows you relevant notes to link to.
Daly de Gagne
12/22/2020 2:25 am
Bill, thanks very much for your review of MyInfo - I am looking forward to using it again.
My only hesitation is that I am attracted to Obsidian, which I want to use for academic note-taking, and as a knowledge manager.
Yet there are some things for which I liked MI, such as keeping records of books read, for which I had set up about six or seven columns, or other kinds of lists. So in addition to still being able to do that, now with MI7 it appears there's other ways to process information.
I agree with what you say about Petko. He's really very good as what he does, and he takes it most seriously.
Thanks again!
Daly
My only hesitation is that I am attracted to Obsidian, which I want to use for academic note-taking, and as a knowledge manager.
Yet there are some things for which I liked MI, such as keeping records of books read, for which I had set up about six or seven columns, or other kinds of lists. So in addition to still being able to do that, now with MI7 it appears there's other ways to process information.
I agree with what you say about Petko. He's really very good as what he does, and he takes it most seriously.
Thanks again!
Daly