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Outliners.com Message ID: 4499
Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-10-31 18:28:51
Wojciech, here’s what I’m using now:
MDE InfoHandler for journal articles and other material that is primarilyu text-based. I like the ability to categorized by keywords—it ain’t fast and it ain’t pretty, but the time is sure worth it when you have a thousand or so articles and you can flick on a tree view that is essentially an outline based on your groups and the categories they contain. Reviewing such a tree can give you added insight as to what you have, as well as giving new ideas. IH is kind of like a Chevy truck—built like a rock, strong and stable.
For a lot of my web clipping, especially when I want graphics, I use either ADM or Ultra Recall. UR is pretty good for a new product. I find ADM more aesthetically pleasing; also ADM’s metadata capabilities are, IMO, far ahead of UR’s. ADM’s public beta version 4 has a very neat tabbed browser which, although based on IE, functions well, and is a pleasure to use.
For personal information I use both ADM and IH.
I putter around with Zoot and am gradually learning more about it. I do not think I will commit to using it until the 32 bit version is out. However, I am impressed with the product, with the ingenuity, and with the fact that it is also like a Chevy truck. I might add that the Zooter is the most predictible and reliable of the mechanisms I have seen for taking data from one product into another.
When I am not using ADM’s built-in tabbed browser, I use Firefox. I recently worked with Opera for a couple of weeks, but didn’t like it as well as Firefox. I find Firefox is more compatible with other programs.
Because I use different browsers, and have often had bookmark lists that differed from browser to browser (a royal PITA) I started to use LinkStash, a third party bookmarket holder about two months ago. My bookmarks have never been so well organized.
I have stopped using Word. I use Atlantis word processor a great deal, as well as Star Office’s latest version. I produce a weekly leaflet at the hospital where I work and Word, for some reason, modified some of the format—I found it impossible to undo the unasked for changes. I imported the whole leaflet layout into Star Office. I easily undid the format changes Word had made. I thought to myself, “Self, who needs Word?”
So…that’s what I’m using.
I find that there has in the last couple of years been some real innovation in the information management/processing market with old time players, such as InfoSelect, that are stuck in a rut being squeezed by up and comers, such as ADM and UltraRecall, and older products that have remained innovative and are intrinsically reliable, such as InfoHandler and Zoot.
Daly
Daly