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From: proteanthread on 26 Mar 2010 12:47
http://www.compusol.org/ecco/eccohistory.html

haven't touched it in awhile, just curious if anyone still uses it?
From: Recluseman35 on 27 Mar 2010 10:35
proteanthread <rtdos(a)rtdos.com> wrote in
news:af1ff0ca-0d66-46ee-9402-6ca9facae6dd(a)g10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:

> http://www.compusol.org/ecco/eccohistory.html
>
> haven't touched it in awhile, just curious if anyone still uses it?
>

These two Yahoo Groups, ecco_pro(a)yahoogroups.com and
eccopro(a)yahoogroups.com, are still very active. The regulars there are a
helpful bunch. The free EccoExt gives the program new features and
overcomes some problems of the aging code. I ran ECCO on Win9x, WinME,
and winXP without any hitches. I hear that it still runs well in Win7.

I moved away from ECCO this past Christmas. ECCO exports to CSV, so
moving was fairly easy. I'm using two commercial products,
Outlook(cal/tasks/address) and OneNote(everything else), to manage the
same data as in the free ECCO.

Ecco is still the best Windows Outliner I've found. It does Calendars,
Tasks, and Contacts as well as other PIMs. I also used ECCO as a
personal knowledge base. It handled plain text, rich text, and the
occasional image quite well. You could embed OLE objects, URLs, and
local file links to your heart's content. You could "launch" ECCO items
or selected text to other applications.

My work flows changed over time - I began to do more web clipping and
keeping more rich content in my data. ECCO was not as handy in this
capacity. Modern apps such as Evernote(free) and OneNote are much better
at this sort of data storage - just dump the data in, while retaining
original formatting. Typically, in ECCO, I would paste in web page
content and then have to massage it into ECCO's outliner model. This
became too cumbersome as I collected more and more rich content. The old
method produced focussed and concise data. The new way is just
easy(lazy). So the move away from ECCO.

Just my two cents worth.
From: proteanthread on 27 Mar 2010 17:51
On Mar 27, 8:35 am, Recluseman35 <n...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> proteanthread <rt...(a)rtdos.com> wrote innews:af1ff0ca-0d66-46ee-9402-6ca9facae6dd(a)g10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:
>
> >http://www.compusol.org/ecco/eccohistory.html
>
> > haven't touched it in awhile, just curious if anyone still uses it?
>
> These two Yahoo Groups, ecco_...(a)yahoogroups.com and
> ecco...(a)yahoogroups.com, are still very active. The regulars there are a
> helpful bunch. The free EccoExt gives the program new features and
> overcomes some problems of the aging code. I ran ECCO on Win9x, WinME,
> and winXP without any hitches. I hear that it still runs well in Win7.
>
> I moved away from ECCO this past Christmas. ECCO exports to CSV, so
> moving was fairly easy. I'm using two commercial products,
> Outlook(cal/tasks/address) and OneNote(everything else), to manage the
> same data as in the free ECCO.
>
> Ecco is still the best Windows Outliner I've found. It does Calendars,
> Tasks, and Contacts as well as other PIMs. I also used ECCO as a
> personal knowledge base. It handled plain text, rich text, and the
> occasional image quite well. You could embed OLE objects, URLs, and
> local file links to your heart's content. You could "launch" ECCO items
> or selected text to other applications.
>
> My work flows changed over time - I began to do more web clipping and
> keeping more rich content in my data. ECCO was not as handy in this
> capacity. Modern apps such as Evernote(free) and OneNote are much better
> at this sort of data storage - just dump the data in, while retaining
> original formatting. Typically, in ECCO, I would paste in web page
> content and then have to massage it into ECCO's outliner model. This
> became too cumbersome as I collected more and more rich content. The old
> method produced focussed and concise data. The new way is just
> easy(lazy). So the move away from ECCO.
>
> Just my two cents worth.



I haven't touched it for a few years but looks like it might come in
handy for school.
From: jim.s.witherspoon on 30 Mar 2010 04:35
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:47:48 -0700 (PDT), proteanthread wrote:

> http://www.compusol.org/ecco/eccohistory.html
>
> haven't touched it in awhile, just curious if anyone still uses it?

you bet, I still pretty much live in Ecco.
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