whizfolders

Posted by Graham Rhind
Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30 PM

I’m with you on this one Guido. I resisted contributing to the ConnectedText discussions because I knew I must be missing something - I couldn’t really understand the attraction of software that requires users to learn notational rules to use a it.

I suppose it’s cyclical. I had to learn tags to send printing commands using my first word processor (PCWrite) until WYSIWYG versions came along. Then HTML required learning until programs came along to allow WYSIWYG html page creation. Wiki systems are the same and I suppose XML will go the same way.

I don’t actually use the wiki abilities in Whizfolders very much, but they are easy to use if I do need them, and the program itself is powerful and intuitive. For me the proof of suitability of a program is whether I actually use it without forcing myself to, and Whizfolders is one I use all the time.

Graham