Wezinc - Mindmap based Information Manager

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jan 9, 2016 at 02:04 AM

2016-01-09 1424hrs:
Well, I have been steadily trialling Wezinc over several month. It had just one upgrade (I think) and I keep it running all the time. It sits in the Systray, monitoring the Clipboard for Copy actions.

1. Stability: It is VERY stable. One of the most stable apps I have come across. I have been able to cause it to “not respond” or sometimes crash, by going too fast on the editing and giving it too much to do, but that is the exception. Considering it is still under development (I think), then stability like this at this stage of its life-cycle would seem to be quite a remarkable achievement.

2. Clipboard sensing: Works flawlessly in the background and gives a little 3-second (or so) slowly fading pop-up in the lower RH corner of the screen every time the Clipboard is used to make a Copy, so you can send the copied contents to Wezinc if you want.

3. Data capture: Wezinc captures text and images (RTF) and source metadata, and you can edit the captured data using a MS Word-like GUI. It also has an MS Office 2013/6-like ribbon menu.

4. Ergonomics: Still room for improvement and pretty much the same as I mentioned in the above comment posted, but I feel sure that can get fixed in time, or the user (me) learns how to make better/optimal use of the thing. I’m still learning, and the tool itself is fairly complex.

5. Use as a PIM/KM tool: Wezinc gives the user some marvellous ways in which to manipulate and relate data and the properties of the data, and model this in mindmaps. I think it’s a brilliant piece of software development with a lot of potential still to be realised.

6. Summary: Very nice piece of software development and potentially nipping at the heels of OneNote for complex knowledge-building and establishing data relationships. Needs wiki-like hyperlinking, bulk tagging, and auto-tagging (has manual individual record tagging). I haven’t tried out its file-holding capabilities yet, but it looks like it could be very useful in that regard if one has that as a requirement.
I give Wezinc 3 or 4 out of 5 thumbs up and it’s still under development. Well worth some investigation IMHO.

BUT, Wezinc may be shutting down or abandoned?
I wanted to visit the website: http://www.wezinc.com today to read their Help and FAQ, but it was down - says “You have reached a domain that is pending ICANN verification.”.
I sent an email to the

and

to tell them about that, but I suspect they are unattended mailboxes. I had written to them some time back with a query but had no response.
You can access their website and download the software via Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20150623183456/http://www.wezinc.com:80/
Download link is: https://web.archive.org/web/20160109005158/http://wezinc.s3.amazonaws.com/WezincSetup.exe
YouTube Wezinc instructional videos channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNZT0noElTVaIbR56YW8jxg

Happy days.