Sorry. I had my head up a dark place....AGAIN.

Tablet Planner is a Franklin Covey product that I believe at one time was
called "something" Organizer. Not sure.

At any rate the problem and the not so good solution are the same.

Worth the trouble however.

"Rainald Taesler" wrote:

> Boris Merryweather wrote:
> > I've had Lotus Organizer for years, even before Lotus bought it.
>
> Me too! ;-) ;-)
> I had it from the first version published by ThreadZ. I had told all of
> my students to look around for a Windows replacement of Sidekick Plus
> and a real tough guy cane along with the Organizer. It was like
> Christmas and Easter in the same date ;-)
>
> I did heavily use it and only gave up when I hot my first PDA and I was
> forced to use Outlook for synching my calendar and contacts. It did a
> lot of searching for a tool for synching Organizer data and the PDA as
> well as a tool synching Organizer to Outlook. To no avail.
>
> > Migrating my contacts to Outlook was easy,
>
> I finally did that too. And some way I managed to migrate the calendar
> data to Outlook too (IIRC by exporting and importing with several steps
> and a number of software in between.
>
> > but I kept Lotus Organizer
> > going because of the wealth of notes I've gathered over the years
> > (Outlook doesn't have an equivalent "Notes" facility).
>
> The latter is only too true :-( :-(
>
> > OneNote looks as though it might be the Lotus Organizer (Notes)
> > replacement I've been looking for.
>
> This was my way.
> OneNote has tons of fantastic features for keeping notes.
> But I'm seriously missing the most advanced linking features of the
> Organizer.
> Although hyperlinks work fine in OneNote It can not reach the Organizers
> way of multi-linking and the way showing what is linked to what.
>
> > Question 1: How do I import all my Lotus Organizer (Notes) data into
> > OneNote?
>
> I found no way to do that. I just did it manually - wading through tons
> of notes, sorting things and then used copy + paste for the stuff I
> wanted to keep.
> Not too efficient .... :-( :-(
>
> > Question 2: Why didn't Microsoft make this functionality
> > part of Outlook, or vice-versa? Oh, the answer's in the question ...
> > Microsoft.
>
> IMO it's not only MS to be blamed. In first place IBM is the culprit
> because they (after having bought Lotus) did let this fantastic piece of
> software with its unmatched features die.
> Before that they had already killed AmiPro, the best wordprocessor
> available.
>
> I must commit, however, that MS has a very famous history in making
> converters available.
> Even Word is a really fine example: The converter for importing DOS-Word
> files into WinWord was that bad that for quite a number if colleagues I
> did the job by sending the stiff through AmiPro ;-) ;-).
>
> Rainald
>
>