At US$250 it’s horrendously and unjustifiably expensive for what it does. Your search term has to be spelled exactly right – you can’t, as in Google-type searching, toss a few words into the search box and have it come up with the most likely answers even if one of your words is misspelt or not actually in the note you’re searching for.
You can’t synchronise its database over several computers using the Internet, its user interface is dated and clunky, and searching is not as flexible as people have come to expect in the Google age. Which, to be realistic, you’d never use to find things in a hurry or to answer a casual query.īut InfoSelect hasn’t kept up with the times. Well most brains anyway – some button-down people simply must have structure and order in everything and won’t be happy without a full-blown structured database like MS Access. The whole thing is pretty random, which seems, to my cluttered mind, to mimic the way brains work.
It’s so fast and easy that it’s practical to do quick look-ups to answer people asking questions on the phone. Even if you only remember a fragment of text that might be in a note, you can enter it in a search box and find it instantly. Contacts, reminders, research notes, how-to instructions and so on. InfoSelect is essentially a big freeform database that you chuck all sorts of stuff into, as separate notes. For them, Evernote answers a need they haven’t noticed.įor me though, it is a step forward in a way of working I’ve had for 20 years, through a program called InfoSelect and its predecessor, Tornado. I think it may turn out to be very significant, but at this stage I admit that when I describe it to many people, including my wife, I get a blank look. I have a new one to rave about: Evernote. Every so often I come across a new computer application that gets me quite exercised and wanting to tell everyone about it.
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