Trying to find a slide manager
Even though I’m a pretty structured person with a visual memory, I spend way too much time looking for slides in my directories. I can have a clear memory of how I solved a visual problem on a slide but then be lost when it comes to what project it was for, when it was. And even though Google Desktop can do wonders when it comes to searches – you still have to open up your presentations, find the slide, move it, reorganize it. So I’ve been looking around for a slide manager – at first hand to use for my workstations but maybe for all my coworkers since a lot of the work we do are in forms of presentations.
This can’t be a unique problem – it must be a problem every organisation has. I decided to try out Slide Executive and PPTShare Desktop and Slideboxx. Slide Executive is priced at a hefty $355 for one license and PPT Share Desktop and Slideboxx at $99 (PPTShare being currently reduced). None feels like the perfect software. Oh, how I would love this to be an integrated part of PowerPoint – maybe something to hope for in Office 2010?
I’ll give them each a week (if I’m not falling sleep during the lengthy indexing phases) and see if either is up to the task I want to complete.
And isn’t it interesting how all three use Blue, orange and white in their text focused logos?
