So, I mainly use X1… but always keep Archivarius there, ready to rescue. But as far as its features go, it really lacks at least 2 or 3 extremely useful things that X1 has : to be able to memorize searches and settings (for the various searches) AND create “virtual folders” for these searches and organize them in folder trees. My database is my file system (the discussion went in that direction at some point in this thread - regrettably, it was dismissed.).Īnd, yes, Archivarius is good : not too resource hungry, deals well with huge documents, cheap for students, etc.
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Being able to find/see everything with one or two software - x1/archivarius -, is much more powerful. And even EverNote, to some extent, since I only keep around 40-50 notes max in there, for very practical reason (at some point, I had 800 notes in there - which, I’m sure, is much less than other EverNote’s users - and it literally became a nightmare I really *hated* to work with such a a big amount of “pseudo classified” notes, and now I’m pretty much back to a more conservative way of working but so very much more efficient…). That's the main reason why I never really bought into any of the Ultra Recall, myBase, etc. But I’m a bit sick of having to import my stuff into different databases (and loosing formating and other usefull tweakings in the process) to be able to use the organizing power of some software. I was not thinking of zoot becoming an indexer. I almost don't use any other applications as far as searching goes I still miss a better tagging system though (I use tags in filenames, it works well, but it's not optimal for various reasons - tag2find might be what I’m looking for, eventually… when its new version comes out), a good way of managing virtual folders and cloning files, other ways of displaying info, etc. So, everything else - well, almost - is perfectly named and organized, and instantly found with X1/archivarius, Farr/locate.
But I empty my EverNote database every week and file everything before it becomes out of control. Regarding EverNote… Because of some of its limitations, and because I don't like software functions duplication, I use EverNote almost exclusively for notes that, for various reasons, I don't want to classify immediatly. Well, I do have about 15 gb of text in various format (mainly rtf, txt, doc, djvu and pdf) I've gattered during the past 10 years for my studies, and I was never able to really test Zoot's legendary power on them - I got the error "The Win 16 Subsystem has insufficent resources to continue running, blah blah blah.". I don't think Zoot will be an indexer of any type in the near future. Zoot meets X1 is nice to think about, but don't bet on it. Zoot is for people who have an enormous amount of text they need to organized in a pretty uniquely powerful manner. EverNote is much more geared toward a general class of users that need a wide variety of text, formatted text, webclips, images, etc. Zoot is a hardcore text-based application. Yes, Evernote does images and other pretty things better than Zoot. The author has only mentioned RTF support as an added functionality in the works for later beta versions. I want to emphasize that at this point, there are no tangible differences between Zoot32 and Zoot16 other than the underlying base being 32-bit instead of 16-bit, which is ultimately transparent to the user. In other words, there is no graphics functionality other than linking to a graphic file. Zoot32 doesn't deal any differently with graphics than Zoot16 (yet). Hopefully, we can get a good discount here at DC! however, I feel if he were to make the price more competitive with Evernote ($30-50 range) he would attract enough additional customers to make it worth it.
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On one hand, I'm sure the Zoot cult will have no problem with the price or the upgrade fee. I'm guessing the author will ignore the price issue (maybe even increase the price). I posted in Zoot's forum about this and told them that the price is going to have to be considered because of Evernote.
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So, as a user, you will have to decide if the additional poweruser features are worth the extra $100 (EN is basically free unless you want the text recognition features). However, Evernote is not nearly as powerful as Zoot. Evernote 2.0 is very (almost eerily) similar to Zoot in it's look and function, and it's free. I think people who use it heavily will say it's well worth it, but Zoot will have a hard time prying people away from other programs with that kind of price tag.
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