DOUG LERNER  I have been a loyal Soho Notes fan for years. I do have problems about search speed though. I emailed Chronos today and am waiting for a reply.

Right now I have just about 680 notes in my database. That doesn't seem so much. But it's important bits and scraps of data accumulated over the years, ever since Sticky Brain, including software license numbers, etc.

I notice it takes are really really long time for search to work. For example, I just did a test looking up the word "Intuit" because I have a few notes relating to that company - a seminar I did for them, a schedule, etc.

But it took almost 70 seconds to locate the 8 notes that had "Intuit" in it. It can be very frustrating at times like when I'm on the phone and I say, "hold on, I'll look that up for you."

My question to Chronos was, is this normal with this number of notes? Is there any way of speeding this up without going through all 680 notes and adding "tags" (which I suppose creates an extra index) for each note?

I have never had any reliability/stability problems with the product and have been using it daily since StickyBrain 3.0.

doug  
(Version 7.0.4)

DOUG LERNER  I must say I'm surprised by some of the notes here. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I love SOHO Notes!

I've been using it since it was StickBrains v3 and have never had an upgrade problem or a sync problem.

I tried everything else out there and never found anything as fun and useful to use. I depend on it for holding all my scraps of info.

I too was disappointed at Chronos ending their support forums. Now support takes forever.

But the software itself has always been great for me!

doug  
(Version 5.6.2)