XLNotes EXCEL Add-in

Posted by Jack Crawford
Apr 13, 2012 at 07:50 AM

I have used XLnotes 7 quite extensively but will not be upgrading to the latest version.

[The positives]
- The concept seems very strong. So many people use Excel for non-numerical use that I am surpirised that there are not more add-ons like this around.
- The UI and feature set is appealing (at least to me). A glance at the website shows lots of beautiful looking potential uses for the software.

[The negative}
- It is not stable (at least the version I used). I was using XLnotes in a very large spreadsheet database (8000 rows). I found to my horror that earlier notes I had created based on particular templates were randomly disappearing or were being replaced by later notes. It doesn’t matter to me whether this was caused by database corruption issues, programming glitches or user error. I lost a lot of work and dropped XLnotes like a hot potato.

For apps like this to be useful they must be 100% reliable.