Outlines of outlines

Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 4, 2006 at 07:12 AM

re UR: I thought there must be something more to it. Like Jack, I’d like to know more about the Word outline template. Good to know about the indexing of the files. I think Zoot has a way of searching linked files, but I’ve never got it to work. With Word files I just tend to extract the text and import it into Zoot. Like most people I’m hoping the 32-bit version will take care of many of these problems.

I’m more and more impressed with PocketThinker. I haven’t tried the PPC version yet; only the desktop one. So far my only problem has been getting the desktop version’s outline items to link with Outlook contacts, notes, etc. I have managed to get it to work, but it was a fiddle, and only worked properly after I had closed and opened Outlook again. I had similar problems opening the PT outlines from within Outlook. All seems sorted out now, though. PT also has a nifty feature that enables one to convert Outlook notes to outlines.

PocketThinker’s issues with linking may be being caused by two factors: having ActiveSync in my startup, and - probably associated with this, or with the PT-Outlook integration - problems in getting Outlook 2003 to close down properly. I’ve just installed Knockout.exe (http://sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout/), and that seems to help.