Things | May 7 2009 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Can someone tell me what's new and improved about this? It doesn't look like anything to me.
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Projector | Apr 23 2009 |
ANONYMOUS Try the final version, all reported bugs have been fixed.
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The Hit List | Mar 11 2009 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Whoa! That’s a lot of money for this app and while it’s a nice piece of work and easy to use, it is very ugly, almost Windows-like.
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Fresh | Feb 18 2009 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Fantastically useful. Basically you are getting access to your recent files simply by running the app. It beats the hell out of the “Recent Items“ list, which is was too complicated. I have been very reluctant to start tagging my files, but will now start to do so.
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Ulysses | Feb 4 2009 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I want to add my voice to those who think this app is outrageously priced. It does have some nice features, but it’s essentially a souped-up text editor. Many of its features can be found in Textmate while Scrivener, in fact, has many more features and is far cheaper. I really hope the developers will listen and lower the proce.
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Contactizer Pro | May 12 2008 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I tried Daylite and this one. This is much better, easier to use, softer on the eyes. Also, and this is a really big deal, the Contactizer developers listen to their customers. Daylite doesn't. So yeah, Contactizer needs improvements, but you can believe they are working on them and they are going to get done.
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Daylite Productivity Suite | Apr 29 2008 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I am a single user with fairly humble needs and perhaps that's the reason I came to this viewpoint, but this product is really bloatware. It can do many sophisticated things, but many basics are a complete pain in the butt. The calendar display is atrocious and Daylite knows this, but has done nothing to fix it. Linking events and tasks to contacts is also cumbersome. For my needs, Contactizer has proven much, much better. If I were a small business, it would probably be different, but I would still urge anyone considering this product to look at alternatives. Also now that my experience was that the developers were not responsive to customers. You'll find a lot of this on their forums if you search around.
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Leap | Jan 11 2008 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN However good this app is, it has far fewer features than Pathfinder and that only costs $35. $69 is just too much. Sorry.
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Leap | Jan 11 2008 |
TOMANDERSEN Thanks for the feedback on price. We are looking at the 'pro' market with Leap. Leap is not a 'Finder on steroids', it is more a different way to look at files. We are beta testing everything now, including the price. If you are curious, please check it out regardless of price. We will be giving away some copies to our 'best' beta testers. | |
Leap | Jan 11 2008 |
BLLOYD They're very differnet products. Pathfinder is basically a finder replacement. It has lots of gadgets, whatzits, etc., which is nice if you want that. Leap is really an uber search/tagging tool. You're not doing typical "finder-ish" things, but rather organizing or searching to find things easily and quickly. By type, by time, etc. Now true, Spotlight in Leopard can do a lot of this. By saved searches, etc. However, the UI of Finder for creating searches is NOT so intuitive.
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Curio | Jun 29 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN The question is whether this program now does so many things, it doesn't do any them well enough. Consider GTD. It now supports GTD tags, but labelling an item with a specific tag requires moving through a lot of menus and takes much longer than it would in igtd. Consider document handling. Curio can import lots of different file types, but try searching for something in one of them. A program like Devonthink or Journler does a much better job. And finally, the latest feature Mindmapping. Yes, it's cool, but if you really want to do mindmaps, Novamind is far, far better and so is the web app www.mindomo.com. So yeah, this app is amazing and in many ways brilliant, but what happened to the old Unix philosophy: an app should do just one thing, but do it very, very well.
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Curio | Jun 29 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN The question is whether this program now does so many things, it doesn't do any them well enough. Consider GTD. It now supports GTD tags, but labelling an item with a specific tag requires moving through a lot of menus and takes much longer than it would in igtd. Consider document handling. Curio can import lots of different file types, but try searching for something in one of them. A program like Devonthink or Journler does a much better job. And finally, the latest feature Mindmapping. Yes, it's cool, but if you really want to do mindmaps, Novamind is far, far better and so is the web app www.mindomo.com. So yeah, this app is amazing and in many ways brilliant, but what happened to the old Unix philosophy: an app should do just one thing, but do it very, very well.
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gSync | Jun 19 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I can't even open it. It crashes immediately. This has happened with every new version.
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gSync | Apr 10 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Crashes as soon as I open it. Unuseable. Doesn't inspire much confidence though I think the idea is great and the price is right.
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ThoughtOffice | Mar 16 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN What a mess! Weird things happen to the interface, I can't figure out how much it costs, clicking on certain tabs gets me an error that I am not conncted to some server. Why not just use Watson and connect via the reference module? You get access to so much more data! The best program for this was Microsoft Bookshelf, but it's no longer made for the Mac.
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ThoughtOffice | Mar 16 2007 |
ESPIRIDION $1,349 for the CEO module, on sale for $497 Includes the program and these modules: The program itself seems to be $149, on sale for $99, and includes one module. Looks interesting, but after looking at the CEO price I abstained from downloading it. I‘ll stick to a combination of Devon Agent, Devon Think Pro, NovaMind, Curio, etc. I looked at their ‘IntroToThoughtOffice’ pdf document, and some of the links are not working. Looks like a great idea, but for me it’s too expensive. Even Tinderbox is cheaper than this one!
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Curio | Jan 26 2006 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I am a huge fan of Curio and use it constantly, but I have to say I think this upgrade costs too much. Around a year ago, some of us bought the Pro version for $129 and now we are being asked to pay $50 for an upgrade. While the upgrade has some nice new features, it is really not the kind of total overhaul you see when other products move from a version 2 to 3. Curio is still very much a work in progress: 1) Sleuth is not a particularly useful tool and has not been altered in any way in this upgrade. It is still not well integrated into the app. 2) While the find feature has been upgraded, it still doesn't show you precisely where what you are looking for is located. It can still take a lot of work to find what you're looking for. 3) The LIbrary easily becomes overcluttered when you store lots of assets. It's hard to tell what's what as well. My advice: wait a year before you upgrade. They'll be asking you for another $50 then too, but maybe they'll have done more to improve the program.
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Curio | Feb 28 2006 |
OLIPOWER Yeah, their upgrade pricing policy is too stiff. I purchased Curio less than 5 months ago, as an Academic sale at $69, and now has to pay $50 more. No special academic pricing available. Funny way to show appreciation of loyal customers. They also have a referral program, but that does not apply to academic sales, and even requires the buyer to manually put in your user name. A browser cookie won't do. Quite unusable referral program, at least to me. And it would benefit Zengobi more to have happy loyal users place normal banners on their sites. Still considering whether or not to pay for the upgrade, but as I demo'ed version 3, and saved my documents with it, reverting to version 2.x makes the program crash. Of course Zengobi offers to help me out on that one, and that's good, but hey; why should I be troubled with that kind of bughunting to use what I've paid for? All that said; Curio is great - although it lacks some mindmapping features, and only halfheartedly implements the features it already has.
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Yojimbo | Jan 24 2006 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I agree with what's been said here. It's a good start, but it just isn't worth it when compared to DevonThink, Notebook or even the free extension Srapbook for Firefox. What's needed is a much better search feature. When you are amassing huge numbers of documents and then search for a word, you don't just want to know the documents where the word appears; you want to find the exact spot in the document where the word is located. And that's just the start.
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HistoryHound | Dec 8 2005 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I don't think all the people complaining about this product understand what it does. It is not searching through all the names of the websites you visisted which is what Saft does. Instead, it creates an index of all the words in the websites you've visisted and then allows you to search that. This allows you to find a needle in a haystack basically6. For $20 it's a great value. OIt should be a feature built into Spotlight but alas Apple doesn't have its act together on that yet. Try it you won't be disappointed.
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