Re: Another new PIM...

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-07-12 17:41:17

InfoPro is an example of a trend in pims: bringing almost full word processor power to bear. A few years ago, people could be heard to complain that MS Word was excessively feature rich; that many of it formatting commands were irrelevant to most people’s work and were distracting if you just needed to write a note. Times and attitudes have changed, in that now the notetaking programs offer near-Word power. I’m not familiar with developments in computer programming, but I would guess that vendors are buying word processing components (from Microsoft)to incorporate.

At the same time, the need for a lot of formatting power in a pim may diminish as programs start incorporating OLE objects. If you put an object in a program like Idea! as a link object, Word’s entire power is just a click away. That includes Word’s outliner, which I hold in higher regard than most outlining types, and Word’s ability to open multiple windows. The technology isn’t quite there, however, and I haven’t succeeded in properly incorporating a long Word document as an object.

srdiamond

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