askSam vs. Zoot? and vs. others

Posted by Armin
Oct 6, 2013 at 02:03 PM

22111 wrote:
; >some man (here, I think) says the developer of Zoot doesn’t answer his
>mails anymore, since he mentioned too many bugs to the developer…

I cannot confirm this. The developer of Zoot (Tom Davis) is answering my e-mails (and there are bug reports among them) within a very short time (1 minute to 24 hours - and I am in a complete different time zone).

I am working with the current Zoot version since the first public beta. Zoot is the main software program I use on my computer for one reason: it combines a great variety of information types. Zoot enables me, to have topic based databases, which collect e-mails, RSS-feeds, tweets, web pages, documents, tasks in a single database within Zoot. There is no need to switch to your feed reader or your e-mail software when searching for stuff about a specific project.

Additionally Zoot has got new comprehensive GTD functionality but it still lacks of a good documentation. And there is the “Zooter Cloud”, too, which enables you to send items to Evernote, Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, Twitter and Facebook. So Zoot is also a Twitter client, RSS-reader and an e-mail software.

I am not able to compare it with AS, which I never used. I know Connected Text a bit, but CT has a different approach to information management than Zoot. CT might be a nice complementary to Zoot and vice versa.

Most features of Zoot I figured out learning by doing and playing around what happens. I guess I’m using still less than 40% of its functions and I’m still learning and discovering new tools within Zoot.

Best regards
Armin