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Posted by DaXiong
Sep 26, 2011 at 02:11 PM
@Daly (and others)
I use CT regularly in my writing, so here’s my take. Find a simple project, and just start using it. As your project grows, you’ll discover more features in CT that make life easy. As others have said, just jump in.
I don’t use 50% of the features, including some of the power features. But what I need is there, and works great. I’ve never had CT crash, and find it easy to work in its environment.
One other added benefit, Eduardo is amazingly responsive as a developer. When I’ve emailed for support, I got a response quickly - and a real response, not an auto-responder saying message received.
I’d describe CT as a writing environment. To me, taking notes is writing; brainstorming is writing; outlining is writing. CT does all of these tasks well. I use other tools too, but my projects all reside in CT.
Posted by Glen Coulthard
Sep 26, 2011 at 03:22 PM
First of all, I hope that I’m not one of the “professors” you’ve mentioned
. Second, if you look back at my posts, you’ll find that although I am a strong proponent for Eduardo and ConnectedText, I use many different applications for different purposes. CT is a personal wiki - it is not a panacea for outliners, nor is it my GoTo application for everything. In fact, for writing and organizing content, I prefer the WYSIWYG hierarchical outlining features of MyNotesKeeper (MNK) or MyInfo over CT’s outlining capabilities.
As for other desktop wikis, I’ve tried TiddlyWiki, Wikidpad, and ZuluPad Pro, and I’ve yet to find anything near the stability, power, or quality of CT. I hope that this statement does not sound like software snobbery; it certainly is not. Otherwise, I wouldn’t own 10 of such applications. I am just sharing my personal opinion of yet-another-productivity-tool that I hope will help better inform other users. CT is a wiki with a wiki-markup language. It is not Word or EverNote or PersonalBrain—all of which I use for their strengths.
All my best,
Glen
p.s. Having said this, I have requested a WYSIWYG front-end in the past to make CT easier to use for novices. For an excellent example, check out the PBWorks online wiki. Instead of having VIEW (read-only) and MARKUP (writeable) modes like CT, PBWorks allows WYSIWYG processing in their “VIEW” mode, while allowing wiki-markup language in their MARKUP mode. The perfect solution in my mind (although I appreciate the development difficulties.)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 26, 2011 at 03:42 PM
DaXiong wrote:
>One
>other added benefit, Eduardo is amazingly responsive as a developer. When I’ve
>emailed for support, I got a response quickly - and a real response, not an
>auto-responder saying message received.
>
I would strongly second this observation. I had a problem over the weekend trying to install CT5 on my MacBook using VMWare Fusion emulation. Before the weekend was over, Eduardo had brewed me up a specialized version that would run fine on my Mac.
Steve Z.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 27, 2011 at 02:37 PM
Glen, thanks for the reply. I appreciate it.
No, you were not the professor I mentioned.
However, your article on using CT is one reason I have long wished I could get my head around it in terms of using it for managing information and references.
I see you have a video on the site on using CT for a library project, and I’ll be downloading and watching that. URLfor the video:
http://www.connectedtext.com/movies.php
Cheers,
Daly
Glen Coulthard wrote:
>First of all, I hope that I’m not one of the “professors” you’ve mentioned
.
>Second, if you look back at my posts, you’ll find that although I am a strong proponent
>for Eduardo and ConnectedText, I use many different applications for different
>purposes. CT is a personal wiki - it is not a panacea for outliners, nor is it my GoTo
>application for everything. In fact, for writing and organizing content, I prefer
>the WYSIWYG hierarchical outlining features of MyNotesKeeper (MNK) or MyInfo over
>CT’s outlining capabilities.
>
>As for other desktop wikis, I’ve tried TiddlyWiki,
>Wikidpad, and ZuluPad Pro, and I’ve yet to find anything near the stability, power, or
>quality of CT. I hope that this statement does not sound like software snobbery; it
>certainly is not. Otherwise, I wouldn’t own 10 of such applications. I am just sharing
>my personal opinion of yet-another-productivity-tool that I hope will help better
>inform other users. CT is a wiki with a wiki-markup language. It is not Word or EverNote
>or PersonalBrain—all of which I use for their strengths.
>
>All my best,
>Glen
>
>p.s.
>Having said this, I have requested a WYSIWYG front-end in the past to make CT easier to
>use for novices. For an excellent example, check out the PBWorks online wiki. Instead
>of having VIEW (read-only) and MARKUP (writeable) modes like CT, PBWorks allows
>WYSIWYG processing in their “VIEW” mode, while allowing wiki-markup language in
>their MARKUP mode. The perfect solution in my mind (although I appreciate the
>development difficulties.)
>
>
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 1, 2011 at 06:08 PM
Eduardo,
I’m posting an issue with Connected Text here, as it might be of interest to other forum members considering purchasing CT. I don’t expect a quick answer, so don’t worry if you see this after a few days.
Following a successful trial of CT, in the footsteps of Stephen and Graham, I decided to register the program, as it is perfect for a project I’m working on these days. I opted for the One User license, as I use most of my software in 2-3 PCs, at home, office and on the road (a cheap laptop where I only have my lighter programs installed).
I am now working from home, on a Windows 7 64-bit PC. For security reasons, I have a separate administrator account, which I use for installations and maintenance, but I usually log in as a normal user. Following the CT instructions, I installed the program from my administrator account. I then tested it as a normal user, which worked fine.
However, after purchasing, the following occured:
- I was unable to register the license as a normal user, which I am able to do with the majority of purchased programs
- I closed down CT, logged off, logged in as the administrator and registered the license correctly; I also updated to the latest maintenance release, checked the About box and saw my name prominently displayed
- I logged off from my administrator account, logged in as a normal user and… found that I am still using the TRIAL version!
Is this normal? I should note that I found an easy solution, which is to select Run As Administrator for CT from within my normal account; I can even set this as a parameter to SlickRun which I use to start my programs, so it’s not a serious obstacle.
However, I wonder whether this behaviour is on purpose. Is it a way to ensure that only one user will access the program even in the same PC? Would I have avoided the issue had I purchased a One Computer license?