CRIMPING with ConnectedText, Brainstorm, and ResophNotes

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Posted by tradercclee
Aug 17, 2012 at 05:42 PM

I’ve been a long time fan of Brainstorm…
Started to create so much info that it became cumbersome to navigate through the file.

Moved over to ConnectedText.

Love it intellectually.
Can’t get myself to use it regularly, however.
Bought it, spent time learning it, dread using it…

Unfortunately, there’s some sort of barrier that prevents me to *want to* use it.
Maybe it’s the Markup… Or the separate edit mode.
Every time I open up the CT, I feel like my motivation to enter notes sapping away.

Once again, I love the power of CT.
But what’s the use if I can’t get myself to enjoy using it?

Just discovering ResophNotes…
Looks promising.

I’d love a hybrid of Brainstorm and something that gives better search, tagging, etc etc…

Any thoughts?

Posted by tradercclee
Aug 17, 2012 at 07:08 PM

Adding to the thought:

Are there any tools similar to ResophNotes, but the plain text note area is a single pane outliner?

I love the ability to tag and create/search topics on the fly…
It’d be perfect if I can enter the notes using an outliner format.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 17, 2012 at 09:24 PM

tradercclee wrote:
>Are there any tools similar to ResophNotes, but the plain
>text note area is a single pane outliner?

Depends what you mean ‘similar to ResophNotes’. If you want the Simplenote syncing functionality, see the full list of clients here http://simplenoteapp.com/downloads/ Unfortunately the choice for Windows is very limited.

However, you could use any one pane outliner which can output plain text (including the level info) and copy/paste that into ResophNotes. An option could be EmEditor with the outline plug-in http://www.emeditor.com/modules/tutorials4/index.php?id=23

As far as I remember, you don’t need to keep the outline tree pane open; you can do your outlining in the main pane as if it were a single pane outliner.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 18, 2012 at 01:18 PM

You should give Noteliner a try. It has some of the aspects of Brainstorm, but doesn’t restrict you to a perpetual hoist view. It also allows tagging and has a decent search. I’m not sure how well it handles oodles of data, as I’ve never put it to that kind of use.

http://www.noteliner.org/i/Main.html

BTW, for other Noteliner users, it looks like Sam has just released an update.

Steve Z.

tradercclee wrote:
>I’d love a hybrid of Brainstorm and something
>that gives better search, tagging, etc etc…
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >

Posted by tradercclee
Aug 18, 2012 at 05:43 PM

Thanks Alex + Steve.

I tried Noteliner and liked it.

What I’d really love is this:

- Editing notes as a tree outline, and saving each note in a separate file (like plain text notes in ResophNotes)
- Being able to search through the separate outlines on the fly. (The Search feature ResophNotes filters the notes/files really nicely)
- Tagging the outlines.
- Linking to other outlines using wiki-links

Basically, retaining all the features in ResophNotes, except each note is an outline, instead of plain text. :)

Maybe I’ll find an outliner that easily reads/saves tabbed plain text files, and I’ll use this with ResophNotes.

Thanks again for your ideas.

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