MSD Organizer

Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 24, 2008 at 04:25 PM

Thanks Daly. I was getting the same schizophrenic reactions to MSD Organizer, which is why I wondered how others here had experienced it. It has a busy interface and it’s not smooth to use - marking a task complete, for example, takes far too many clicks; there’s no drag and drop support from other Windows’ programs and there’s no Internet integration (no built in browsing or web clipping).

On the other hand it handles tasks well and correctly (though I don’t like the split between alarms and tasks); it can embed files; link to files through its history tab, and all in all it has a lot of power.

In my way of working it sits between Zoot and Ultra Recall/The Brain. I’m currently using Zoot for task management because of the superb ease of getting data into it by selecting text and then Ctrl-Z. On the other hand I remain very uncomfortable with its whimsies - what Zoot is designed to do is easy to grasp but it needs more of an overhaul than it’s currently getting - I don’t see why it should have to take the average new user so long to grasp how one needs to work with it (or why its long-term users and developer sometimes seem to revel in that caprice). Also, of course, it’s lack of any text formatting capabilities is an issue for me.

Ultra Recall’s integration of files and Internet are far advanced to MSD but I could never use UR more than I do now until Kinook pull their finger out and allow it to properly manage recurrence, and The Brain as a tool for task management is a non-starter.

So I’ll probably not find a use for MSD, but I am intrigued by it ....

Graham

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Graham, thanks for the url.
> >So what do you think?
> >I downloaded the program, and
>didn’t think much at first.
> >Then I started to play around a little, and to read the
>instructions, and began to see that there’s a system built-in that appears to be
>pretty powerful.
> >Is it a replacement for UR or MyInfo—I don’t see a web-clipping
>capability. But in other ways it may be a good replacement.
> >The nice thing is that the
>free trial is for an unlimited period.
> >I’d be curious also to know what you and others
>think.
> >Daly
> >Graham Rhind wrote:
>>Though MSD Organizer
>(http://www.msdsoft.com/eng/products/agenda/info.htm)
>>seems to have been
>around for some time, it doesn’t seem to have been discussed in this
>>forum. Does
>anybody have any experience with it and comments on
>>it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Graham