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Parsnips

Parsnips

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Version:  1.5.1

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search feature is lame

Feedback Type:  Commentary

Contributed by: jwbaumann Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 10:36 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Every one of these PIMs I try has the lamest search functionality. Parsnips cannot find substrings when searching the whole database of records, which is a huge shortcoming and an immediate deal killer. It can't do grep. It can't find the word "is" (maybe that was a Clinton request). The "relevance" percentage is a silly eye candy fiction with no relationship to reality. The only way I can see to do a "show all" is to create a new record and save it, but then the list can't be sorted by recent-ness. There appears to be no way to see a list of only the record titles. The vertical window divider slides left and right by such a tiny amount it's sort of pointless. Exporting produces countless tiny files rather than a single large block of text. This app is wasteful of screen real estate. There are 2 separate "find" features in the same interface, with different visual metaphors and completely different behaviors, which is confusing. Drag and drop seems to not work at all, but I'm too unimpressed to evaluate more. All in all, this app is a sloppy hodepodge of unfocused design and incomplete functionality.   

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