Thanks for the reply, Bob!
Migratiibg data from ine software to another mistly is not too easy
:-( :-(

Rainald


Bob Perry wrote:
> 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