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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Feb 23, 2023 at 07:49 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
> Trust me (or don’t), once you get your hands on Tana you’ll not want apps like MyInfo and others in that category.
Tana, Roam, Notion and all those SAAS web / cloud based app are indeed nice, but, and it is a major issue, one never knows when the service could be down, discontinued or otherwise available. And the $100+ per year subscription fees adds up.
An offline-first, local, secure, one-time purchase program may be “old-fashioned” but still has some advantages !
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
https://www.infoqube.biz
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 24, 2023 at 07:42 AM
I tend to agree: Tana is frightfully cool, but it’s not offline (yet – it may yet emerge as an app, of course). I’m one of those reactionary people who don’t entrust anything of real importance solely to an online service. Hence my current love fest with Obsidian…
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Paul Korm wrote:
>> Trust me (or don’t), once you get your hands on Tana you’ll not want
>apps like MyInfo and others in that category.
>
>Tana, Roam, Notion and all those SAAS web / cloud based app are indeed
>nice, but, and it is a major issue, one never knows when the service
>could be down, discontinued or otherwise available. And the $100+ per
>year subscription fees adds up.
>
>An offline-first, local, secure, one-time purchase program may be
>“old-fashioned” but still has some advantages !
>
>Pierre Paul Landry
>IQ Designer
>https://www.infoqube.biz
Posted by rafael costacurta
Feb 24, 2023 at 11:33 AM
I’ve looked into Myinfo many times, and I’m sure i would be happy using it in my pc. But in 2023, an app like this without a mobile counterpart, even it is read only, is a no go.
The one who have been using it for a long time, my be used to it. But start afresh knowing this limitation, is hard to justify.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 24, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Yes, I agree it’s an increasingly important consideration. On Mac, we’ve got lots of options (e.g. Notebooks, Keep It, UpNote… – mind you, the latter runs on Windows, too!), but there are some frustrating gaps as well (Curio, anyone? Although Curiota is a very nice stopgap measure). DEVONthink does allow you to at least read stuff on a mobile device – and so does super-powerful search tool FoxTrot (you can sync the indices with your mobile device, and even save the full files if you want to, effectively turning FoxTrot into a data manager).
In the world of Windows, however, it’s an irritating problem, although I guess you’ve always got the Big B*ggers like OneNote to fall back on. Ah, and I was an early adopter of Windows Mobile…
Cheers,
Bill
rafael costacurta wrote:
I’ve looked into Myinfo many times, and I’m sure i would be
>happy using it in my pc. But in 2023, an app like this without a mobile
>counterpart, even it is read only, is a no go.
>
>The one who have been using it for a long time, my be used to it. But
>start afresh knowing this limitation, is hard to justify.
Posted by Steve
Feb 24, 2023 at 03:41 PM
I am a daily, heavy, user of MyInfo for my business primarily.
It works. It is flexible. It is supported.
I do not need a web app, and I hope MyInfo does not bother with one. It will suck time away from the core development that is MyInfo.
If you do “need” a web app PIM, then MyInfo is not for you.