The last infoselect user in the world

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Mar 31, 2021 at 06:49 AM

I am still a user of the excellent InfoSelect v8, having initially bought version 7 and then upgraded to v8 later, years ago.
I also still occasionally use the amazing Lotus Agenda.
I use other PIMs too, but my “21st-century Zettelkasten” is Microsoft OneNote.

Just for the record, I didn’t find the comment “Posted by 22111” offensive, just rather silly and wildly off-topic, though it had one or two interesting aspects. I wondered if it wasn’t trolling and being deliberately sarcastic in several places.
If it was a troll, then the rule should probably be: “Never.Feed.The.Troll.” - just delete it.

As the owner of several Internet blogs and discussion channels, I tend to go by the rules.

If a post breaks the rules for posting, which rules might be clearly stated as including (say) “use English only, stay on-topic, no trolling, no advertising spam, no obscene or offensive language, etc.”, then delete the post by all means, but do clearly identify the rules and the criteria for rule-breaking - especially what is defined as being “offensive”.

For example, what is offensive if a museum displays in its art gallery:
- the picture of the “Piss Christ” - a “modern art” photo of the RC crucifix upside-down in a bucket of the “artist’s” urine.
- the picture of the “Madonna in a condom” - again, a “modern art” photo.
- a reproduction of the 600-year-old Renaissance fresco in San Petronio cathedral, Bologna, which was inspired by Canto 28 of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, representing a scene depicting Muhammad in Hell being devoured by demons (such imagery apparently “having been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages”).

I am an agnostic and a skeptic, with “beliefs” in nothing much (considering “belief” to be irrational by definition), but personally I would prefer not to set foot in any museum or art gallery that displayed the first two “modern art” images - because I would have thought that we had “moved on” culturally speaking - from mocking the RC religion, at least, since since the Reformation, and mocking Christ is offensive to not only the Christian churches, but also the Islamic faith (Christ being considered to be a true prophet of Allah and who died a martyr at the hands of the Jewish Pharisees, which was a gross sin/blasphemy in Allah’s eyes).

However, if all the art gallery had displayed was just the fresco, then I wouldn’t object, since It represents a window into our 600 year old cultural history, and we forget/expunge our cultural history at our own risk.

But there was one thing about the post by 22111 - the reference to Jarte.
I don’t think I ever looked at it before, but I did take a look last night and was rather impressed. My CRIMPing habit has been triggered and I am trialling it. The latest version of Jarte Plus is $FREE and seems worth a look as a PIM.
Maybe the post was an advert for Jarte?

I just wish InfoSelect v10 wasn’t such a sorry mess.