Outlook – Domino Connecter.
I was seduced, (for the third time), into installing the Microsoft Outlook Domino Connecter for the following reasons:
- I wanted a single place to manage my RSS feeds, personal email, tasks, calendar and work email
- My trial of mNotes completes in a few days and I needed to decide whether to buy it, or whether I could use Active Sync alone, (as my Local Notes replica would now also be in Outlook)
- I would get a unified search environment, (because X1 would search my Notes data, which would now be in Outlook)
- Graham said it works fine for him
I have tried it twice before, and had to give up both times, despite considerable effort. I kept telling myself the problems were to do with the sequence I did things, by interactions with mNotes, X1 etc, because I did not leave it alone – i.e. I tried to use it! Having tried again a few times these are some of the problems I have had:
- Synchronisation is painfully slow
- It does not synchronise according to a regular schedule, it just does it in the background, but not as frequently as I would like
- It affects …