InfoSelect Discussion Interesting

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 30, 2009 at 09:17 PM

Good points, Julie.

I use Surfulater a lot, and really like it. I also rely on Evernote.

Since Zoot 5 I have looked at that software again, and am increasingly excited when I see what is in Zoot 6 beta. I am not geeky enough to get it all on my own,however, so am thinking of reaching out by phone and talking to someone from the Zoot Yahoo Group.

You are right, it would have been better if Jim had started communicating at the beginning of the IS beta process. Why now, I am not sure, although it has coincided with the Yahoo IS group offering the group to him, Whether there is more to the story than that, I do not know.

For years the concerns around IS have been growing, and in spite of questions about Jim’s presence he has been most invisible. Now, however, Yuri seems no longer in the picture, and there are new people.

Having been a vocal IS critics for years, having invested some money in subscriptions and many hours in trying to get IS to work well, I must say I have a lot of respect for Jim stepping forward now, and doing his best to really hear what people have to say.

Daly

MsJulie wrote:
>Daly,
> >I had my whole LIFE in InfoSelect—and that life started with Tornado Notes. I
>have 2 GB of largely text captured there. But InfoSelect got quirkier and quirkier,
>and more and more fragile.
> >It did not work well with Dragon Naturally Speaking. In
>the 1990’s Dragon was terrible and typing was always just as easy—but Dragon got
>better! I knew it was of little use to appeal to the developer, so my
>thinking/composing work went elsewhere (UltraRecall remains).
> >Then the email
>service went south, and I had to migrate to Outlook—kicking and screaming.
> >Still I
>liked the way IS would capture information from websites—yes, you had to clean up a
>lot of stuff, but I had macro’s for that. But IS just got so unstable and the transporter
>didn’t function. I learned about Surfulater here, and I have lived happily
>everafter.
> >Now I use IS to strip out HTML codes when pasting. Still, I’ll keep it up
>because I have so much information in it. I just really wonder how much all that old
>information is worth. Less every day I don’t need it, I’m sure.
> >What’s interesting
>is that Jim Lewis is opening himself up to comments and reflections now that IS 10 is
>about to be announced. I mean, shouldn’t he have done that in the beginning of the
>process?
> >Thanks for your posts.
> >Cheers, Julie