Sycon Idea

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 12, 2010 at 04:17 PM

Alexander, thanks for the post. I had recalled someone here had experience with IDEA, but couldn’t remember who - now I realize it was you!

What I’m looking for is a way of having one screen which allows me to select apps, folders, files, etc. with ease. An aspect of this is being able to arrange files according to projects.

I think I should be able to do this with the free version of IDEA - would you agree this is possible.

I thought of using Ultra Recall but I can’t seem to make links directly from the tree in a one-click move. Later I will try, and realize it means going into their help files, which as I’ve written here before are bewildering to me.

I am also looking at Tagged Frog, which someone mentioned here at the beginning of the week.

Take care,

Daly

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Hi Daly,
> >I use Sycon IDEA at one of my company’s long-term projects for a client.
>Overall, I find it satisfactory; what it does, it does well. A benefit is that some
>years ago we contributed the translation of the interface in Greek which is important
>for our client.
> >The commercial versions of IDEA have not advanced much in recent
>years, but work has been going on behind the scenes. My company is currently testing a
>very impressive web client which can provide direct (live) access to any IDEA
>database through Internet Explorer.
> >Christian from Sycon informed me that
>regarding the commercial editions, current work has to do with ensuring full
>compatibility with Windows 7 / Vista.
> >That said, I would have difficulty
>recommending IDEA as a personal knowledge base or information management system.
>Other commercial products have obviously advanced much faster in terms of features
>in recent years. Where IDEA maintains its raison d’etre is as an affordable
>multi-user system, thanks to its client-server architecture (Team Edition).
>There’s not much software at this budget level, as far as I know; I have personally
>identified only InnoKB (from MyBase’s developer) and X2Net OneStore.
> >Note that
>Sycon is not just an IT company, but as I understand software is linked to its business
>services, so it is not strange that their focus is on companies.
> >Hope this
>helps
>Alexander