Re: note taking and outlining software for academics (not full PIM)

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-06-15 02:28:07

>All I want it to do (but do well) is allow good note taking, and good outline, together. However, crucial is: true utfp-8 support (many of my notes will be in non-Latin languages), linking between notes, files, and other documents outside of the program, and good search abilities.- Talazem
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ndxCards at present lacks true searching abilities. OneNote, as you know, doesn’t allow you to construct a true outline with each note a topic; I take it that is what you want.

It sounds like you want a program similar to WhizFolders, but with more adequate outlining. Perhaps you are looking for the top of the line of the two-pane so-called outliner family. If that’s right, I’d say go with UltraRecall (http://www.ultrarecall.com).

You say that WhizFolders isn’t as strong an outliner as you would like. Of the two-pane ‘outliners,’ it has one of the stronger tree-building feature sets, but as Steve Zeoli points out, that isn’t saying too much. The most important feature its tree lacks imo is cloning, the ability to create multiple representations of the same note in various locations, yoked to one another in content. If you are using the program to organize material for papers, the same note might be relevant in different sub-trees, so this feature is useful. The top of the line now goes for $100. I wouldn’t pinch pennies on something so important.

Stephen R. Diamond

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