Franz Grieser

New previews for Ideamason 3.0 12/12/2006

Hi. Masonware just added a couple of new presentations on their website showing the new search feature and a number of extensions to the sources/material handling features: http://www.ideamason.com/p...

Discount for Tinderbox 11/21/2006

Hi. Eastgate offers a Thanksgiving special: Tinderbox costs $149 (instead of $192) Storyspace costs $195 (instead of $295) Upgrade (for either tool): $77 Franz

Fallows Article on Info Managers 11/19/2006

Stephen >I don't think Mac users on the whole are objective observers and commentators on >their computers' performance. This may be true of Mac users who never ever looked at other systems. I d...

Fallows Article on Info Managers 11/17/2006

Stephen >and no one, including James, >mentions that OS X is painfully slow and not terribly stable, traits which >considerably diminishing any application it runs. Beg your pardon. That's nonse...

How I use Ideamason - and why 10/28/2006

Cassius >While Idea Mason looks very interesting and the price appears quite reasonable, I >suspect that many of us don't have the required software and maybe not the required >hardware. > >For exa...

How I use Ideamason - and why 10/17/2006

Hi. I forgot to mention one more reason why I prefer a word processor such as OpenOffice.org Writer or Word: These two apps have a Compare Documents feature that is useful for finding out what change...

How I use Ideamason - and why 10/16/2006

Hi Derek >I have one or two further questions to ask you: > >1. Have you compared IdeaMason with >Liquid Story Binder so far as fiction writing is concerned? (IdeaMason has clear >advantages over L...

How I use Ideamason - and why 10/16/2006

Hi. A few days ago, Stephen Zeoli asked for a review of Ideamason. Here is how I use the application (this is no real review but I think it shows the potential of the software): Ideamason 2.2 is a...

Some IdeaMason questions 10/13/2006

Hi all. Masonware just put 2 Flash presentations covering new features in vs3 on their website: http://www.ideamason.com/products/Ver30_preview.htm I must say that I am really excited and I am looki...

Some IdeaMason questions 10/9/2006

Hi Derek. >I know it sounds trivial, but is >there any way of changing the color scheme? Not in vs 2.2. >I'd also >like to be able to change the icons, which seem better suited to a kid's progra...

Idea Mason Email Help Please 9/8/2006

Daly. >Franz, what email address did you use when you posted to IdeaMason via gmail? >I cannnot find a regular email address on their site. The official address is customerservice (at) ideamason.com...

Idea Mason Email Help Please 9/8/2006

Daly. I had problems getting mails through to Ideamason during August using German mail providers. The only way I get through to them is via Google Mail. Greetings, Franz

IdeaMason 8/4/2006

Shelby. >it currently has two serious limitations which negate its >usefulness to me. First, it requires all references/source materials to be entered >manually. Sorry, but my existing collection...

Why do you use Info Select? 7/24/2006

Justin. I use Info Select a) because I have over 10 years of notes in it and do not want to move that amount of data to a new tool. I exported the notes for one project to a notes database on the Ma...

IdeaMason 7/15/2006

Hi Kenneth. Thanks for the pointer to IdeaMason. I have tested the software for a week and bought a 3-machine licence yesterday. The has been extremely responsive: 2 days after I asked about a 3-ma...

IS Folder Problems 5/23/2006

Daly >According to posts on the InfoSelect Yahoo group users of IS9 are having difficulties >with the folder feature -- items seem to be disappearing. I also read the ONE post of ONE user who said...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/20/2006

Hi. >I have a question about IS-9. One of the things I liked about an earlier version was that >it did not store everything in one gigantic file, but rather it stored in separate >files the conten...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/15/2006

Kenneth and Daly. >You can insert a web page in the selector pane easily (go to insert and select web page). >If you click the link, the internal web browser will show the page. Ah, the problem was:...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/15/2006

Daly >One question I have about the new IS9: How is the browser? Is it now possible to click on a >url in the selector, have a site appear in the browser, then click on a link, and not have >the ur...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/15/2006

Hi Dominik >The problems I have are with the signs ] and {. >I need them to write Java code. That´s strange: Here pressing AltGr plus 7, 8, 9 or 0 works. Bye, Franz

Problem with brackets 5/15/2006

Hi. I just posted in the Infoselect thread and created a display problem there: I inserted a code for smiling ("angle bracket s angle bracket" - I have to write it this way to avoid the problem this ...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/15/2006

Hi Dominik. >The good: >-Context Tab and Smart Folders. This and the improved Transporter are the reasons why I started using IS again more extensively. In fact, the context tabs alone are worth th...

Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version 5/11/2006

Hi Ian >The search >function, and the new (search) Folders in IS are very >poweful and fast - which >mitigates this somewhat, but is not a >substitute. Why not? Because the content or >subject of...

Mac single pane outliner 5/2/2006

Hello Mike. A good resource with reviews of (mostly) Mac outliners is www.atpm.com/Back/atpo.shtml. Here you find in-depth articles (with screenshots) on Omnioutliner, TAO, Notetaker, Notebook, etc. ...

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