What's up wth Zoot these days?

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Posted by jamesofford
Apr 6, 2009 at 02:02 AM

I used to be an active zooter, but dropped the program due to its limitations-lack of graphics support, limitations in number of items/folders.

I know that it has been in active development. What is the status these days?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 6, 2009 at 02:22 AM

Jim,

A few months ago, I summarized information from Zoot’s developer, Tom Davis, about what would be coming in Zoot 6. Here’s is me quoting Tom:

[begin quote]
In Zoot 6 you can capture an entire web page or any portion of the web page and Zoot will store it in any one of the following formats:

* Pure HTML (Zoot displays clip in built-in browser)

* Web Archive / MHTML (Zoot displays clip in built-in browser)

* RTF (Zoot converts the HTML to RTF and displays in RTF editor)

You’ll also have the same options to create Web Archives as files on disk (as you can now in z5).

If you save a clip in HTML/MHTML you can always convert it to RTF or plain text later with the click of a button.

All limitations will be lifted in z6, including length of the subject line, document size, # of folders, # of items, # of folder assignments per item, etc.

Z6 will also do e-mail POP/SMTP.

The browser lets you browse and also acts as a file viewer. With File Links, for example, if it?s a file link to a file type that can be displayed in the browser, you?ll see the document, with the option to not see it and have an RTF document to work with, which can be a form with fields. It?s really quite nifty.
[end quote]

Of course, Tom Davis is always over optimistic in his estimates as to when the next version will be ready. I think we’re running about a month behind his latest estimate.

And, in case you’ve missed it, about a year ago, Tom did deliver Zoot 5, which is now a 32-bit application and greatly improved over the 16-bit application.

Steve Z.

Posted by Cassius
Apr 6, 2009 at 03:20 AM

But when? I was a much younger man when I purchased Zoot 3, with Zoot 4 being promised shortly. It was a very long time before ver 4 finally arrived and then it’s limitations did not meet my needs. The delays between new releases would hardly be tolerated with almost any other PIM. I realize that Zoot has some wonderful features, but I’ve been retired for 4 years now and wonder if I now have any use for the features of Ver. 6—features I would have been delighted to have back when Ver. 4 was originally supposed to appear.
-c

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