How do I import data from Lotus Organizer

[Boris Merryweather]

I've had Lotus Organizer for years, even before Lotus bought it.

Migrating my contacts to Outlook was easy, 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).

OneNote looks as though it might be the Lotus Organizer (Notes) replacement
I've been looking for.

Question 1: How do I import all my Lotus Organizer (Notes) data into OneNote?
Question 2: Why didn't Microsoft make this functionality part of Outlook, or
vice-versa? Oh, the answer's in the question ... Microsoft.

Cheers
Boris

[Bob Perry]

I was also a TabletPlanner user. I will say that I like OneNote a lot and I
switched. I have the same problem as you and found no real solution.

Of course you can always "Print to OneNote". That's really slow and painful.
I ended up just keeping all my TP files an referencing them when needed and
printing to ON those that I needed.

All new info goes into ON and I find that I go back to TP less and less.

Bob

Post by Boris Merryweather
I've had Lotus Organizer for years, even before Lotus bought it.
Migrating my contacts to Outlook was easy, 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).
OneNote looks as though it might be the Lotus Organizer (Notes) replacement
I've been looking for.
Question 1: How do I import all my Lotus Organizer (Notes) data into OneNote?
Question 2: Why didn't Microsoft make this functionality part of Outlook, or
vice-versa? Oh, the answer's in the question ... Microsoft.
Cheers
Boris

[Rainald Taesler]

Post by Bob Perry
I was also a TabletPlanner user.

"TabletPlanner"? What's that?
You say "also" although this thread was in Lotus Organizer.

Post by Bob Perry
I will say that I like OneNote a
lot and I switched. I have the same problem as you and found no real
solution.

The OP's problem is with Organizer so it can nor be the "same".

Rainald

[Rainald Taesler]

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 .... :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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

[Bob Perry]

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.

Post by Rainald Taesler

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 .... :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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

[Rainald Taesler]

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

Rainald

Post by Bob Perry
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.

Post by Rainald Taesler

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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.

Post by Boris Merryweather
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 .... :-( :-(

Post by Boris Merryweather
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