askSam vs. Zoot? and vs. others

Posted by Armin
Oct 9, 2013 at 11:32 AM

>But then, could somebody answer my question about Zoot’s layout?

I try.

Zoot has a “pane configuration button”, where you can choose from six different “pre-configured” layouts: “Tall Tree, Tall Edit, Wide Edit, Tall Grid, Wide Grid, Tall All”.
Additionally you can use the mouse to move the pane borders to change the size of each pane, which leads to enormous flexibility.
You can even “close” the folder tree and then you only have the item grid and the editor on the screen.
Last, you still can toggle to full screen mode; this is when you only want to focus on the editor.
I hope that helps.

E-Mail functionality:

Yes, Zoot has its own e-mail engine on board now. An e-mail database looks like any other database of course, so no special neat web-known interface here. If I only would need e-mail functionality, I wouldn’t choose Zoot for that, but the integration into Zoot’s concept of bringing together different types of information is great, anyway

By the way, there is still the old synchronisation feature between Outlook and Zoot.

@Graham Rhind
I personally have used the direct channel to the developer mostly for bug reports and technical issues, less for support questions. You still have to have time to learn Zoot, to play around with its functionality as there is still no documentation, yet. On the other hand, everybody can use the Zoot list on Google Groups to ask questions. However, in such a list –if you do not collect them – the good and helpful answers get lost quickly (to save them I use Zoot). Therefore, I would rather prefer a wiki or collaborating CMS as a support tool than a forum or mailing list – as long as documentation does not exist.

But I agree to @Daly de Gagne, too, that you “need to know what the questions are”. Good point.

Regards
Armin