Corel WordPerfect Lightning - a simple note taking and file viewer

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 9, 2007 at 02:57 PM

Graham,

I concur with your conclusions about Lightning. The best thing about it is the notes editor, which is quite robust for a tree-based PIM. Other than that, however, Lightning seems a sad and late attempt by Corel to get into this arena… what’s the point of this software? They do seem to want to integrate Lightning with the web, especially blogs… the program features a “Send to Blog” function—which only works with WordPress at this stage.

Reading the Getting Started PDF that opens on first start up supplies this piece of instruction:

“First, create a note by clicking the New Note button in the upper-left corner of the Navigator. Type a few words in the note. Notice that these words become the note’s title. Next, open a Web page. Select the text and images that you want to copy, right-click, and choose Copy. Now, right-click in the note, and choose Paste. The content that you copied is now pasted in the note.”

Is this 21st century technology at its best, or what?

Steve Z.