08-16-2004, 12:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Pocket Informant 5.2 Available
http://www.pocketinformant.com/whatsnew.php?type=pocketinformant&version=520
Pocket Informant 5.2 sports a completely revamped Notes View providing robust support for Outlook Notes in any number of folders and storage cards, PhatWare's PhatNotes and PhatPad products, and Sound files complete with the ability to search the contents of all notes. As well users will find a plethora of improvements in the Month View, Tasks, Editors, Journaling, and the user interface.
As usual, there are tons of minor tweaks, fixes and improvements! Pocket Informant 5.2 is free to all 5.x owners, or you can buy it for $24.95, which includes a free version of Phatware's PhatNotes Lite. Alex is also giving away WebIS Money for Pocket Informant users.
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08-16-2004, 12:22 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 598
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Just to say that the new notes integration works well (PhatPad integration is great - finding ink notes previously quickly was a bit of a hassle, although they can't be edited natively) and being given a free copy of PhatNotes Lite (and Money) must make this one of the very best Pocket PC software buys around.
Combine it with the subscriber discount and it's even more of a winner.
Note that PhatPad 2.0 beta is also out with a desktop client, and I can confirm it works just fine...
J'bm
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08-16-2004, 02:09 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4
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Re: Pocket Informant 5.2 Available
There's been an unheralded, but noteworthy, improvement to their documentation as well. In the 5.2 Reference Guide, the "Options Dialog" section has expanded from the original page-and-a-half of cursory descriptions ("Calendar: Options that apply only to the Calendar View") to nearly seven pages of nicely detailed explanations of practically every customizable item.
Yeah, I'm one of those people that reads the manual. You got a problem with that? :wink:
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08-16-2004, 03:21 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 598
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Hah! Funny...I just snagged the manual to read through as well...got to the point where I am really wringing every tiny option out in PI....
J'bm
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08-16-2004, 07:09 PM
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08-16-2004, 07:30 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 498
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I must be very old now. I still like v5.01 better than v5.2.
By the way, I have more than 200 notes in HPC notes. Assigning a new catagory to each note for PI is the last thing I want to do. Anybody have a better idea how to do it in fewer clicks? thanks
Something I just don't understand. PI gives out Phatnotes lite free from v5.2. Am I the only person who found that Phatnotes lite is much better than PI notes? Will the phatnotes lite giving away hurt PI's sale if most people choose use phatnotes not PI?
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08-16-2004, 08:07 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 486
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Tell us how PhatNotes Lite is better than PI Notes in 5.2. Please  We want to work with PhatNotes to become the best Notes editor on the Pocket PC bar none. 5.2 is a huge a step towards that, though there are a few things I still want to do that we didn't do for 5.2.
But please, I do want to know where we fail so we can improve.
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08-16-2004, 08:09 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 2
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Does Pocket Informant 5.2 actually include PhatNotes Lite?
I've not found evidence of PhatNotes Lite being included in Pocket Informant 5.2. I've checked WebIS's site, Handango and Pocketgear. Unless someone can provide a link to a WebIS-authored feature list that says PI now includes PhatNotes Lite, I think people should be skeptical of this statement.
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08-16-2004, 08:10 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 486
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Its in the installer and the announcements we sent to all the news sites.
Pocket Informant 5.2 comes with PhatNotes for PI (a variation of PhatNotes Lite) for free. A large part of this is to highlight the excellent integration of PhatNotes with PI 5.2.
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08-16-2004, 08:40 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 498
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
Tell us how PhatNotes Lite is better than PI Notes in 5.2. Please We want to work with PhatNotes to become the best Notes editor on the Pocket PC bar none. 5.2 is a huge a step towards that, though there are a few things I still want to do that we didn't do for 5.2.
But please, I do want to know where we fail so we can improve. |
Maybe I didn't use PI v5.2 very well.
1. I can't open my password-enabled hpc notes in PI.
2. HPC notes has a much better interface. Sorting by color, catrgory and priority is very useful.
3. Unless PI is running at background, launching HPC notes is still about 2 times faster than PI in h2210 ROM1.1
4. HPC notes can display the catagory generated from PI, but PI can't display the catagory generated from HPC notes.
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