Chaos Software’s Intellect - Why I Like it

Posted by Steve
Mar 5, 2014 at 11:25 AM

Paul Korm wrote:
Steve
> >Thank you for your very helpful post. Did you migrate your work to
>Intellect—or are you in evaluation mode?

Not evaluating - own it. I bought a license in May 2008 and have used Intellect exclusively since. Not only for my tasks, emails, etc. but also has the database for my fraternity chapter (550+ members), business mailings (printing labels or mailmerge from Stamps.com), etc.

>Did you look at Outlook—and if so was there anything in particular
>that steered you away from it.

I did look at Outlook somewhere around the late 1990’s (seriously). At that time the hardware I could have (long story) wasn’t powerful enough for it. Also, I recall that the full-blown Outlook was geared for big business and no one else.

Around 2003 I could finally have my own hardware (prior to that the airline reservation system owned the hardware). I looked at Microsoft Office and Lotus Smartsuite. I went with Lotus Smartsuite because; a) I had the whole office (6 terminals) networked (token ring thank you very much) on WordPro (remember Ami Pro?). b) All of my marketing pieces templates were in WordPro. c) Microsoft license for my little office was $600+ d) Lotus Smartsuite (Included WordPro of course) was a $69 CD.

True, Smartsuite did not offer any Email program but Organizer played well with Eudora.

So, believe it or not, I have NEVER had MS Office installed on any computer.

>
>If you are in process of migrating from one tool to another, how are you
>approaching it? Spend a week moving everything over and having done
>with the old platform—or a gradual, piecemeal process?

What I migrated from was Palm desktop to Intellect. I’m talking of about 2000+ contacts, but not Email. Email storage at that time was importing from Eudora into AskSam.
The exporting and importing of contacts was not too hard.

>
>This is a relevant problem for me know and your advice is welcome.
>

I’ve never used Outlook so I’m not a good judge of which is better. I do know there is some kind of Outlook addon or something from Chaos Software. Check their website again under the products page and scroll down.

From what I know about Outlook, if it were me, I’d first think long and hard why I am considering changing Then I’d download the trial of Intellect and see if it addressed what I want. Shoot, if I needed a long time to decide or cut over the $60 license is cheap.

>Paul K.