Can we talk about Info Select?

Posted by Wolfgang
Aug 29, 2012 at 09:01 PM

I have used Tornado in the early 90s, and bought every upgrade of Infoselect since. When vista was foisted on us, I went over to apple and bought Macintoshes, lots of Macintoshes. In the Apple universe I found Devonthink which is as good or better than Infoselect 8. Later versions of infoselect just got too cludgey like a giant Swish army knife with 10000000000 attachements and it also had the worlds worst email. I still could not figure out why Infoselect wanted to put email inside their programme when there Outlook or Mozilla. Anyhow, at some stage I realised that whereas Microsoft was the evil empire, Apple was the evile Galactic overlord from hell. You even had to have apple hardware to run their OP and apps. (I know there are hackintoshes but blah). So when mountain Lion came out and being in apple was like being in Alkatraz but without the freedom I went back to Microsoft and bought computers for me and my neurogastroentrology labs, lots and lots of PCs. I discovered something nice, Windows 7 was just as good as Leopard or Lion but more open and the world felt a little less constrained. But then I had to move stuff from Devonthink into Infoselect 10. Infoselect (after 8) and with its insane email is only for the most determined masochists.
So, I looked around for a program that lets me do what Devonthink does, including indexing external files without importing them yet they can be searched for and edited. Also it had to talk in OPML since there are few outliner intelligent (that means opml and why most windows (single or more paned) outliners aren’t)) programmes in windows. Also it had to be able to edit its own intenal files (as well as the external linked files) in a text editor of my choice. I chose ms word 2010 because, like most professionals I dictate my content and dragon naturally speaking 12 works beautifully with word. The whole shebang (word, dragon anything else) is run from this outliner. As well I needed to index thousands (8k or so) of pubmed indexed pdf and they should not be imported but searchable from inside the outliner database. So this programme was better than Devonthink on the mac and better than anything else in the windows world. I love it and use it every day.