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Your current PIM software portfolio - November 2008 Poll
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Posted by Geoffrey Miller
Nov 13, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Hello,
I am another long-time lurker on this forum and, I thought until now, perhaps the last-known user of Idealist v.3 (I tried the short-lived version 5 from “Bekon Software” but this was quickly uninstalled). I, similarly, have used Idealist on a daily basis since 1992 without any data loss. It’s lightning fast, runs happily under Vista (indeed the reason I put off updating to Vista for six months was fear of losing this program) and I have also never found another program to match its capabilities.
However, I’m also a long-time Ultra Recall user (mainly in conjunction with the Firefox Scrapbook extension) and would use OneNote more if I could tone down the garish colour scheme.
Other programs include Personal Brain since its inception (hoping the upgrade price for Version 5 is not too steep), SuperNoteCard, and Infohesive from 2BrightSparks, who have just released a minor upgrade, so development on this interesting program continues.
Regards,
Geoffrey
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Nov 13, 2008 at 06:29 PM
Hi Graham
I’m a bit intrigued by Flying Logic - though it seems the developer hasn’t updated the product for a while. Do you know what’s happening - is there a future or has it stalled?
Did you find it had a steep learning curve or not?
Regards, Ian
Posted by Graham Rhind
Nov 13, 2008 at 07:06 PM
Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>Hi Graham
>
>I’m a bit intrigued by Flying Logic - though it seems the developer hasn’t
>updated the product for a while. Do you know what’s happening - is there a future or has
>it stalled?
>
>Did you find it had a steep learning curve or not?
>
>Regards, Ian
Hi Ian,
What I love about Sciral’s products is their remarkable maturity - they are rarely updated because they are released stable and doing exactly what it says on the tin - no less and (sometimes unfortunately) no more. They are not over-developed or bloated - they have a very clear purpose and don’t wander beyond that. The author(s) do respond to customer questions on the forum, and they will resolve bugs very fast. I found a bug in Sciral Consistency (a product which has not been updated for years), and that was resolved and a new version released within 24 hours.
I don’t know to what extent the tools will develop (I don’t think they have a large customer base), but already they do just what I need, so I’m happy :-)
The tools are also incredibly easy to use - hardly any learning needed.
Graham
Posted by dan7000
Nov 13, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Software I use every day:
- EverNote3 (last year it was OneNote, now all my OneNote notes are imported into EverNote)
- Outlook
- Taskline ( dynamic task-scheduling plugin for Outlook)
And I still have some information in ADM that I need to refer to occasionally, but of course I don’t add anymore information there.
Posted by GFORGX
Nov 16, 2008 at 01:10 PM
I use Konqueror/KDE4 as web-browser, self-made NoteFinder for note-taking and DokuWiki-powered website articles editing and at+kdialog utilities for reminders. Sometimes I’m just using v. and core unix utilities.