Re: TexNotes & InfoRecall

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-07-11 14:10:55

I may be crazy, but I’m seriously considering buying a license for InfoRecall. It provides the best writing environment I have seen in a pim, with its ability to display multiple windows organized in a workspace as well as tabbed windows. Its search engine is excellent and will search on you entire hard drive, quickly, without indexing.

It has crashed, but in each instance I could determine why and avoid the behavior. In general I have found it crashes when you do something you’re not supposed to. The program seems unable to say ‘no’ gracefully. For example, it crashed when I tried to import a Word doc. The program will import rtf documents, but not Word, even though they are pretty much indistinguishable. There are display issues, but I could resolve them. For example, the Document Center was blacked out, but that happens when you try to use black text against a black background. Why the program shipped with that setting isn’t something I can answer, but if these minor flaws lower the price from $100, which the program would deserve if it worked as expected, to the current $40 on the web site ($99 elsewhere, it seems), that’s for me a good reason to buy.

I know some people are using earlier versions of Windows, and I’m not sure how this effects stability, except that Windows XP doesn’t crash generally when a program does. So for me, a crash or two a day would not rule out a program.

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I started the last demo version of InfoRecall (XP2004.6) and it crashed. The menue “View” would not display properly, pop-up windows appeared black, etc. Some functions are really interesting but poorly documented.

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