Re: For Those Like Steve Zeoli who prefer to write in the pim

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Posted by sub
2005-01-11 06:16:02

[Stephen D.: A brilliant add-on to MS Word 2003 that provides an enormous enhancement of selection techniques, among other things. ... Would it make sense to equip a pim with these abilities?]

First of all I think it makes sense for outliners and PIMs to support plug-ins and enhancements the way Word does. A PIM/outliner represents a starting point for creativity and is aimed at much more individualistic ways of working than a word processor; if it’s to be attractive it should be able to cover diverse needs
(perhaps because Word is already established, people seem quite willing to adjust to its idiosyncrasies).

Mybase is a PIM that has benefitted from such an approach to offer some unique features and now MyInfo seem to be aimed the same way.

Other than that, I must say that Word still hasn’t got buttons for superscript and subscript while Hyperclip, Mybase and others do, as does Textshield. So I for one actually find it less distracting to work with.

alx

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