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Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Oct 7, 2022 at 11:14 AM

The latest update to Windows 11 seems to have broken my favourite notekeeping program (Blackwell Idealist). I have managed to extract its contents in the form of Idealist Natural files (which are simply large text files with tags to indicate the start and finish of each note and the fields within them.

So I’m looking for an alternative. Ideally something that uses a card index metaphor (I’m old fashioned; notes on index cards was how I did my PhD) and can swallow a heck of a lot of notes (26,000+ in my main notes file; 11,000+ in my references file) without slowing down to a snail’s pace whenever I do a search.

Yours
Lawrence

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 7, 2022 at 12:33 PM

This recommendation is based on a hunch that it might work. Not on experience. But have you looked at Zoot?

https://www.zootsoftware.com/

It has been around for 25 years. I’m not sure that it has advanced much in the past decade, but it is still supported. I tend to recall that it was sometimes compared with Idealist.

I’m sure others in this forum will have other suggestions.

Steve

Posted by Anthony
Oct 7, 2022 at 03:36 PM

Did you see these two posts that are now almost one year old?
“And the good news: Idealist v3 in Windows 11”.
Link:
https://groups.google.com/g/IdealistDB/c/-z4g-ugPts0

Posted by Anthony
Oct 7, 2022 at 03:44 PM

Anthony wrote:
>“And the good news: Idealist v3 in Windows 11”.
the message shows a namesake of yours if it’s not really you!

Posted by Geoffrey Miller
Oct 7, 2022 at 05:16 PM

Hello Lawrence,

I have two computers with the latest version of Windows 11 both happily running Idealist (1995 version 3) without any problems, Have you tried re-installing from the original files?

Regards,
Geoffrey

PS I don’t know how many times I have tried Zoot over the years - but it just does not seem to “gel” with me

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