I’m married to my current practice management system. For our non-lawyer audience, we lawyers are constantly battling with the idea of practice management software. There are less than a half-dozen “major” players and though some of them have some sort of web feature, you’re pretty much tied to the computer or the network it’s installed on. Someone has to create a web based version - we’ve got too much wi-fi, high speed and broadband technology to be fooling around with installed software. If someone doesn’t do it…(if Google doesn’t do it), someone will.
Rocket Matter beat me to the punch - I’ve had this web-based PM system idea for a while now, but didn’t have the time or resources to put it together.
First and foremost - it appears that the Rocket Matter team is off to a great start. I haven’t yet tried it myself but I’ve seen Grant’s review and Aaron’s review Still got a few questions myself that neither has answered and the blog has not yet addressed.
How do we transition to Rocket Matter?
I’m a PCLaw user. I’ve got two license for myself and my assistant. I use the front office AND backoffice features. PCLaw has been annoying at times and it has an ugly interface, but it’s level of detail has been very helpful. (This post will not become a rant on PCLaw - I don’t have the time - I still use it because it’s cheap and reliable).
The folks at Evernote have been working on something new that seems very promising! Evernote in its current state is useful, but is really just a bloated non-web accessible version of Google Notebook and so I chose not to use it for more than a few days.
One of the major missing items was web access which Google made so easy.
But Evernote is working on a new version, currently “Evernote Beta” which is really exciting.
Major advantages include text searching in images and handwritten notes! Imagine taking a snapshot of your airplane ticket, and then searching for it later by entering keywords such as “southwest ticket” or “flight march 15″. It’s essentially OCR without having to actually manually process any OCR.
I know it’s been a little while since I last posted and my schedule might not permit too many posts in the near future, but I thought I’d add this neat little find.
Grant over at homeofficewarrior is always talking about how we must join the conversation. So you might as well make it more beneficial for everyone to join in:
Commentluvis a wordpress plugin that displays blog posts of your readers.
If for example, you were to leave a comment to this post, you would have the option to enter your web address and commentluv would automatically draw your latest blog post for display on my site.
Note: If you don’t want Google to follow the resulting link to the commenter’s website, you may not want to add this. But if you manually approve comments, this shouldn’t be a problem.Read the rest
