InfoSelect 2007 - Experiences?

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 18, 2007 at 06:34 PM

Thank you all for your very interesting posts!
I appreciate them very much.

Most of your reports are similar to my experiences.

I plan to use IS as a workhorse for daily note taking (during meetings and phone calls) and for task planning. The built in calendar is not a highlight of usability but very helpful in organizing the tasks on a daily basis. I won’t use IS for e-mails and web capturing.

After a day of testing IS during a hard working day here my summary:

Pros of IS:
- Fast search
- Easy outlining and note taking
- Easy integration for external folders
- Easy linking to external files
- Different types of topics
- Editor
- GUI (yes, I like it…!)
- Templates
- Printing (much better than in IS 6 and 7)
- Context folders
- Quick Text

Cons of IS:
- No metadata (not really an issue for me)
- Missing internal linking like UR provides
- No tabs (to open several topics the same time)
- The high price (I think of starting with the $50 yearly subscription)

IS is a complex application and it takes time to get used to it, even more than to UR. I am testing IS the third time now and I start to understand and like it.

Dominik