Onfolio, a Windows alternative to DevonTHINK

[mls_esq]

I've been evaluating Onfolio, a Windows alternative to DevonTHINK, for
about a week now, and I like it very much. Onfolio ties together Web
resources, RSS feeds, local files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and
text files -- by linking to the files or by including them in the
Onfolio collection), and notes you can create yourself (which unlike
Zoot can contain formatting -- yay!) or import. Onfolio allows you to
search everything you've clipped, and even to save searches. It still
has some minor bugs -- all the problems I've had so far a) seem related
to Firefox integration, which is new to Onfolio 2.0, and b) have
workarounds, but their tech support (via email and Web forum) is very
responsive. Onfolio's website is www.onfolio.com. The Professional
version (which has a 30-day evaluation period) is $99.95, but readers
of readwriteweb.com can get $30 off (search down the page for the
coupon code) if they buy before August 31.

One note for 43Folders power users: Onfolio defaults to only indexing
the first 10000 characters of imported or linked items, but there are
instructions in their support forum, at
http://www.onfolio.com/support/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=901,
to increase this by changing a Registry setting and re-index your
Onfolio collection if necessary. Mine's set (over-optimistically) to
10 billion characters.

(I have no connection to Onfolio except as a satisfied user. I *will*
be buying it before the 31st.)

[Judine]

I have been using Onfolio at work and like it well enough -- are you
sitting down Mac enthusiasts? -- to consider purchasing a Thinkpad as
my home's second computer so I can use Onfolio at home. (I currently
have an iMac G3.) Google Desktop also indexes the stuff in Onfolio, so
I usually use that for the search. However, I like Onfolio for the
easy capture and filing.

[Pascal Venier]

Judine,

You could also simply install Virtual PC on you Mac.

[david]

Judine: have you used DevonThink?

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david
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[Judine]

Yes, I have used DT, and want to love it, but it seems to be a memory
hog, really slowing up my computer.

C

[Judine]

Here's a helpful review of Onfolio, from a blogger, "Northwest VC," who
describes how he also uses Onfolio as a to-do list:
http://nwvc.blogs.com/northwest_vc/2005/01/intelligent_bro.html#comments
.

[david]

That's interesting - I used DT Personal on my G3 iBook (640 MB if I
remember correctly) and it wasn't slow nor did it seem to have any
bad affects on my computer. What's your memory situation like? BTW,
I've made a note to download Onfolio at work Monday. I'm pretty much
forced to use a PC there (don't get me started on the bonehead IT
Director at one of the campuses I teach at) so having something like
DevonThink will be useful.

david

[Michael O'Henly]

Just downloaded Onfolio and (effortlessly) imported my humongous OPML file.
It's a bit leisurely downloading feeds (compared to NewzCrawler), but
appears to be very, very well integrated with Firefox. Quite impressive so
far. The support community is very active and that always strikes me as a
good sign.

M.

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Michael O'Henly

[Soulhuntre]

Heya :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 43Fo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:43Fo...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Judine
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:08 PM
> To: 43 Folders

> Subject: [43F Group] Re: Onfolio, a Windows alternative to DevonTHINK
>
> I have been using Onfolio at work and like it well enough -- are you
> sitting down Mac enthusiasts? -- to consider purchasing a Thinkpad as
> my home's second computer so I can use Onfolio at home. (I currently
> have an iMac G3.) Google Desktop also indexes the stuff in Onfolio, so
> I usually use that for the search. However, I like Onfolio for the
> easy capture and filing.

It looks good, thanks for the pointer! In fact, it looks a lto like "Net
snippets" whish is a tool I used for a while.

These days I pretty much have standardized on OneNote as my clip, capture
and organize tool for everything Outlook can't handle. There is a good
browser "send to onenote" powertoy out there.

Since I use OneNote for so much other stuff (recording audio and video notes
is one great feature) I am trying not to add another "information
repository" to my life :)

Btw: The cool thing about OneNote audio recording is if you add items to an
outline while recording audio those items become linked "indexes" in to the
audio / video stream. If you use this while recording a meeting it is
trivial to jump into the recording at the place that prompted any particular
note or item.


Soulhuntre
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[Simon Carr]

On 8/21/05, Pascal Venier <pascal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Judine,
> You could also simply install Virtual PC on you Mac.

As another alternative you could try out Darwine if you're running
fairly simple Window apps;

http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

I haven't tried Darwine recently, but VirtualPC can be a beast (and a
slightly expensive beast), especially if it's just for one app.

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[Andy Jones]

Can anyone complete the trilogy and suggest a Devonthinkalike for Linux?