Edited by author 03-22-2001 12:03 PM
I'll certainly have to agree, Adam, that Eudora (or virtually any modern email client) offers a better text-composition environment than any vanilla webform-based text-creation environment. But, like most users of such systems, I've gotten inured to composing "offline" in NotePad (or some HTML-capable env. like EMACS/HTML mode, as I am now doing) and pasting into the webform.

On the point of "archiving everything for posterity," sure, that works well and good within your own email world, but when it comes time to share a conversation you've been having with colleagues with a newcomer, how do you bring 'em up to speed? If you've used a LISTSERV to mediate the conversation, you've got one alternative; but imho Quick Topic provides that same level of functionality with a heckuvan easier UI.

Plus, while it's true that QuickTopic itself is a lightweight Web-based single-topic discussion space, the existence of easy topic-branching and the My Topics and Shared Topics "meta-features" makes QT's environment far more flexible and useful, and imho approaches true email-style multi-threading -- with all the ease-of-use and single-topic opt-in or -out that you could want.

(Please pardon my obvious bias; I'm "way into" QT as you can see; but only because I frankly think it's "way cool.")

I loved the article. Sort of Alan Kay-type inspirational stuff. (Alan Kay is mentioned, I know.)

QTDR is a feature of QT, enploying some of the collaboration conventions honed within QT and adding some new ones appropriate to the doc-review task.

This would seem to imply that QuickTopic Document Review is one product, and QuickTopic is a different product. Gee, I'm so smart!

Great topic, my heinie! Great decade and a half of being indispensible and inspirational.

KDL

Great article!

Edited by author 03-20-2001 01:25 PM
I noticed on the Wiki page that Adam's html uses ">" and "<" rather than & gt; and & lt;. I thought that those symbols were forbidden in html?

Mostly this comment is just testing out the system, not really of any importance.

NIce review

Don't worry, Eudora will be available for Mac OS X as a Carbon app.

What the heavens?

Adam, Eudora is still a great product and I'm willing to use it in sponsored mode...I do hope that Qualcomm will offer a fully carbonized version of the application for Mac OS X.

For collaborative email, if I'm understanding what you want, a wiki would make more sense, I think.

It does appear you can put any name you like however

utyfuytf

I like this - I just tried to post a comment without giving my name but you can't do that
Now as long as they are honest about who they are.......

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