[Fwd: OG Software You'd Pay For]

tonyreed (tonyreed@popmail.dircon.co.uk)
Sat, 11 May 1996 12:11:53 +0100

Marc Paquette wrote:
>
> What kind of OG applications would you pay for and use?
>
> Personally, I'd pay for and use a decent outliner.
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> A project manager would be handy too.
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> Starting a thread,
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> Marc.
> ---
> These are my opinions, Metrowerks can get its own.
>
> Marc Paquette
> Word Jockey
> Metrowerks Inc.

As a long time user of the Psion 3a and recent purchaser of the Omnigo
100 - I like the pen recognition, and some aspects of the database, but
I would kill for an appointments app as well thought out and integrated
as the 3as - the scrollable lists in each day slot in the week-at-a-view
mode, the single key stepping through of all views, the ease of setting
multiple custom repeats; as a shift worker, the ability to 'label' a
day's shift in bold and have it always as the first thing viewable on
each day, on an awkward six-week cycle, has been a boon. There is
nothing I've found yet on the Omnigo that can't duplicate a 3a function,
but it's like the distinction between Macs and Windows PCs - there is an
indefinable 'rightness' about the operation of the 3a which (this
version...) of the Omnigo doesn't have. I console myself with the
thought that the Series 3 Psion was clunky, and it took the 3a to get it
right - roll on the 100a?