I've used ISW since it was Tornado Notes.

I have 10 gb of files and hundreds of WD3 files.

Is there a better way than exporting each file into one general.txt file and somehow combining them?

I have used Tornado Notes and migrated up to the v.6 of Infoselect, where I have stayed for several years.
I have given Jim many tips and suggestions - some of which over the years he has integrated.

I now have just shy of 10,000 notes and I am getting an error of "corrupt Overview.wd2"
Attempted recovery of notes has generated "many" notes with extra text.
I am hesitant to go to ISW11 as their support is slow to respond and not willing to help saying, "v.6 is unsupported."

That being said, I am looking for an alternative to ISW - and considering AMN if it can provide the connectivity, stability and functionality needed.
Possibly as you were onboard for ISW v.6, you might have the answers for a saving/recovery of data and an application for the future.

Important to maintain:
- The tree structure
- Clips and graphics - although not a great number, those are important to maintain and keep with the related text
- Category Tabs- Used extensively to group notes and it would be a significant loss to not have those notes cross referenced for quick review.
- Global search features would not want to lose the ISW functionality

Look forward to your reply.

I appreciate the update, Vlad! This is wonderful news!! I am not sure how it will work with literally Thousands! of notes, but I will indeed be anxious to try. I currently run two versions of IS, the first is quite old with the extension of .wd (version 1.0) and the second one has the extension of .wd2 (version 5.00.14), I trust this will not preclude me from creating .rtf files for the import. It may require several steps, but in the end hopefully, it will be worth it. I may need a bit of assistance in accomplishing the task, but I trust the instructions will be thorough enough for me to accomplish the goal. I have told several people about your wonderful software and how powerful it is. Fortunately for them, they are able to bypass the IS debacle and can utilize the benefits of AllMyNotes. One more thing I might add, you mentioned the ability to be able to access AMY data on an Android device using a desktop emulator via the web. Unfortunately, that would require leaving a computer on at all times and the assumption that one has an Internet connection. We are in situations where an Internet connection is either unavailable or very expensive and therefore are unable to connect to a desktop computer. I realize I don't even know the depths of what I am asking requesting, but it would be wonderful if we were able to have access to AMN on our Android devices. I have not mentioned Apple due to the fact that I absolutely detest anything related to it. Personal preference, of course! Thank you again for all your expertise and assistance in trying to help those of us who are hostages to IS in being able to migrate to AMN!!!! Sincerely, LH

We are currently working on much better import from IS. Since recently Info Select is able to export data to RTF format, which is great as it supports formatting. And now AllMyNotes is able to import RTF data exported from IS and automatically split it to separate notes.

New importing feature is available effectively from AllMyNotes version 3.29, it will be released soon. In an meantime you can get a preview version here: https://one.allmynotes.info/downloads/I ... a_b910.exe

With it you should be able to export your IS data. The only issue I can see is that you nee the latest IS version... Perhaps you could use someone's else PC to install trial version of IS there and export your data to RTF format using it.

So have I and I could not agree more! I am stuck in Info Select hell as I also have years of notes in older versions and am very distressed that they can not be imported to All My Notes. I would gladly pay someone who could do that for me. At 75, I no doubt will not live long enough to get it done myself! Truthfully, I wish I had never started using Info Select as it has come back to haunt me a hundredfold. I am also in a very difficult situation with not being able to upgrade to the latest Window software, i.e., Windows 10 (for security reasons). I use a DOS-based program "Managing Your Money" and cannot go past Window 7 since there is no native DOS function in Windows 10. I have heard about DOS BOX, but tried to use it on another computer and it doesn't work for me. I would appreciate any assistance that anyone could offer!!

I have been using info select since day one. (Tornado 1.0). Every version of info select was better than the previous version, until they went to version 10 and 11. It is the Windows 8 version. Many steps backwards. They broke many great features and it is terribly slow now.
All My Notes looks like a great substitute if you are starting from the beginning.
I have over 45,000 notes. Most with graphics, charts, spreadsheets, etc.
I would instantly be a loyal member of all my notes if there was some way to import data (other than copy/past of 40,000+ times)
Looks like a great program except for the import feature (text-only).
another VERY handy thing is to search/replace with \r & \r (Returns and Tabs)

JoeM wrote:I am also a long-time IS user with a 1/4 GB data file that has many notes that are a combination of text and graphics (screen grabs, pictures, etc.). Is there some reasonably automated way to transfer this data to AMN.

InfoSelect can export only plain text. And we cannot read .wdX files directly as these files are proprietary and have different format for nearly every single minor update of IS. So at present moment we cannot do it, as well as no one else. To my knowledge AllMyNotes is the only software title which can import data exported from Info Select.

At the same time you are still able to import formatting via clipboard. It takes a while, but it appears to me it it's still reasonable choice - you can use batch import to import plain text, and then, copy-paste formatted notes manually. I bet not 100% formatted. In my case, long ago, when we had no automated batch import, I had to import data using copy-paste. It took me 2 hours to copy-paste my 400+ notes, but it was worth it.

I am also a long-time IS user with a 1/4 GB data file that has many notes that are a combination of text and graphics (screen grabs, pictures, etc.). Is there some reasonably automated way to transfer this data to AMN.

Thanks for any info.

LAH wrote:...exporting them to a .txt file and importing each one is not feasible...

It appears to me you got it wrong. Import.export is an automated batch operation: exported .txt file contains _all_ notes, and AllMyNotes can split them all to individual notes automatically per single import operation. Rather than guessing you better give it a trial to see it works for you.

Thank you for your response, Vlad. I have actually discussed this with you before, and since I have literally thousands of notes in InfoSelect, exporting them to a .txt file and importing each one is not feasible. I will keep hoping that some tech guru will create an import/export file for the entire IS note database/s. I do understand that the .wd / .wd2 (etc.) files are no doubt proprietary, but surely there must be some workaround other than the afore mentioned .txt alternative. LAH

LAH wrote:... Any direction or assistance you could give would be most appreciated!! I cannot save each note to a .txt file and then import it into AMN...

IS can export ALL your notes in to .txt, and AllMyNotes can export these files and correctly break them by documents. Please read the manual for AllMyNotes, there we have a topic related to IS -> AMN batch data import/export.

I have been an InfoSelect user since the Tornado (DOS) days. I would very much like to migrate to AllMyNotes but must find a way to import the HUNDREDS of notes into AMN. You mentioned, "I have already imported all of my data from Info Select into AllMyNotes; as far as I can tell so far the importation went flawlessly." and I would very much appreciate it if you could give me direction on how that is accomplished! I actually run two InfoSelect programs simultaneously because I like some of the features of each version. It would be such a blessing to be able to bring all my existing notes into AMN and say good bye to ISW forever. Any direction or assistance you could give would be most appreciated!! I cannot save each note to a .txt file and then import it into AMN, at 73, I will not live that long. Thanks in advance for your help. LAH

As a a longtime Tornado Notes/ISW user, I have similar search wishes to Steve's. Nevertheless, I'm a solid convert to AMN now, and praise the day I switched to it!.

Still, I liked ISW's "one or more words" search option. It always seemed to find what I wanted.

I find the Boolean search option in AMN odd. I'm used to "horse AND zebra", not "+horse +zebra". And the "How to use" notes don't really discuss "OR", I.e. horse OR zebra". (Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, ISW's "one or more words" search template is probably an "AND/OR" -based logical search.) Last, on search options, I recommend X1 Search's super useful "NEAR" search option. (X1 Search is a desktop search program). A search for "Sally NEAR contract" would find any note with the word "Sally" 10 or fewer words away from the word "contract". Please consider this useful search option for AMN.

In ISW, I liked that, after I searched for something, I could just hit Enter to see the entire list of filtered search results. Almost always, the search I wanted was one of the notes visible on my screen. Now, I need to move my hand from the keyboard, find my mouse and click the note I'm looking for on the large list produced by AMN's search. Or, I need to move my hand to actively click in yet another spot to view all available filtered searches. All this is fiddly and time consuming. Net, in AMN, I wish that, by simply pressing Enter after a search, I could immediately display as much of the Filtered list as can fit on my screen as notes.

I've studied the "Help" articles in AMN. They are very helpful, with one exception: "How Search in All Notes and Folders". It includes a line that likely could respond to some of my above frustrations. It says: "Now you can either Go To needed Note/Folder by pressing Go To button, or, you can Filter found items, to see only Global Search result in Outliner tree by pressing Filter button." What button is the "Go to" button? It isn't cited on the separate keyboard shortcut page. Neither is the "Filter button" defined there. (BTW, I run a web business with a FAQ and, every time I look at it, there's always something I wish I hadn't written the way I did! So, no criticism here!)

Overall, I think AMN is great in almost every way!

I agree, I would love to see more search options, especially "Next" and "Prev". But even more, a search and replace function.
Thanks, the program is so useful!!

I can confirm that Infoselect 7 has worked fine on Windows 7 x64, Windows 8.1, and now on Windows 10.

JeanPierreS wrote:In my Info Select, I have tons of notes containing screen captures, most of them anotated with my scn capture application. I am a developper, and every time I solve, say a tool configuration problem, I capture a picture of a window or a parameter dialog box. The import function of AllMyNotes does not support importing the images contained in the notes...

There is a way to import these notes - via copy-paste. I know, it takes time, perhaps you'll have to spend whole hour by doing dumb copy-paste operation. But try to think about it this way - the upgrade price for InfoSelect is pretty high, while after importing data to AllMyNotes you'll save quite a lot of money. Doesn't this money of dumb work cost that price?

Hi,

I also am a long time user of IS, since its dos version in fact, and I love it. I also considered migrating to AllMyNotes though I am not at all impressed by the "candy like" design of the application. But I did not even gave a try to AlllMyNotes for this main and important reason:

In my Info Select, I have tons of notes containing screen captures, most of them anotated with my scn capture application. I am a developper, and every time I solve, say a tool configuration problem, I capture a picture of a window or a parameter dialog box. The import function of AllMyNotes does not support importing the images contained in the notes, as the AllMyNotes support told me. And I definitely stop considering migrating to this app after the support guy told me I only had to cut / past manually the images for each imported note. Such a silly advice for tons of notes which, for a lot of them, contain multiple images !

So, I sticked with my Info $elect 2007 I am using with no problem on my Windows 8.1 x64 laptop. Just don't know if my old IS would behave right in Windows 10. For this reason, I am reluctant to upgrade to Windows 10 !

My greatest dream would be that Miclog releases an up-t-date version of Info Select !

Jean-Pierre, from http://plusconscient.net

Steve & Vlad:

I totally agree with everything Steve has said about the need to have Info Select's refined searching abilities. I have been using Info Select for about 13 or 14 years and the most important feature for me is the lightning fast search, along with all of the different ways of refining the search. Also, the context tabs are extraordinarily useful, and I have great hopes that these features could be implemented in AllMyNotes.

Thanks a lot for an awesome product!

Greg

BDutcher wrote:I do miss the advanced searching capabilities of IS.

Ok, we'll raise up the priority of these tasks.

BDutcher wrote:Another slight problem is that my imported IS notes seem to have bunches of alarms in them! These are not intentional alarms, but something in my IS notes gets interpreted as an alarm.

So my request would be to please get a way to delete all my alarms, so I can start over.

Usually alarms are created on place of so-called "ticklers", which is IS's equivalent of alarms in AllMyNotes. I presume in some cases alarms can be recognized mistakenly out of dates, but even if so, I guess it's kind of ok if you'll be notified on entered dates... Yet the simplest way to got rid of these alarms is to delete alarm objects (alarm icons) in your texts. In case if there is too many, contact me personally using this link, I can do a special app build for you which will not create all these alarms so you can start importing over.

Steve & Vlad,

I too have been a long-time user of Info Select, and have switched over to the wonderful AllMyNotes program. But I do miss the advanced searching capabilities of IS. Another slight problem is that my imported IS notes seem to have bunches of alarms in them! These are not intentional alarms, but something in my IS notes gets interpreted as an alarm.

So my request would be to please get a way to delete all my alarms, so I can start over.

Thanks to you all,
Ben