Visual representation of data

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 2, 2010 at 08:48 PM

Manfred - you don’t need what any longer? I can tell you’re upset, and that I am the cause.

If I offended you, I apologize. I had no intention to do that, or any reason to - I have long respected your contributions to the forum.

My criticisms were directed at Connected Text. Some of us need help files to survive, and for me with wikis that is the case.

I was spurred on to check out CT because of your recommendations. And I can appreciate where you are coming from - I just wish I could make it work for me. I can’t, but that isn’t your fault, and no criticisms of you were intended.

If your comment about knowing nothing about a program is directed toward me, please know I have on at least two occasions tried to figure out CT on the basis of your recommendations which I valued - and still value - even though I haven’t been able to get my head around how to make CT do the things that lead to your being impressed by it.

I wish I could because I appreciate what you are saying - I am just not able to put it into practice.

Incidentally, I also have appreciated your blog http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/ over the years, especially some of the historical posts on note-taking methods and handling of information.

Anyhow, I hope you do not leave this forum - on my account or for any other reason.

Daly

PS I didn’t realize you’re Canadian. Whereabouts are you based? I’m in Winnipeg.

Manfred wrote:
>“I found the help files unintelligible,” ...
> >I understand that help files are
>important, even though I also know that most of us read them only as a last resort. To
>reject an application just because the help files are not quite adequate seems to me to
>put the cart before the horse, anyway. Furthermore, there are a lot of “promising”
>applications discussed here that don’t have any help files at all.
> >The Company that
>develops ConnectedText is based in Brazil. I am sure they have very competent
>technical writers in Portuguese. That being said, “unintelligible” is certainly an
>unwarranted exaggeration.
> >For what it’s worth, ConnectedText is the **only**
>application that makes **me** stick with Windows.
> >Anybody is, of course, entitled
>to their own opinion as to the quality of a program?especially if they know next to
>nothing about it.
> >Daly, this will be my last post in this forum so you won’t have to be
>annoyed with my comments or posts any longer. I don’t need this ...
> >From one Canadian
>to another,
> >Manfred