Re: ndxCards

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-07-22 15:28:59

Why else would we feel a sort of _obligation_ to use a tool simply because it’s _great_? Shouldn’t we just use a tool because it’s useful. Has any of us seen a Black & Decker drill in a shop and thought “wow, that’s great, now if only I could find something useful to do with it”...

:-)

Actually what I said was slightly different, but I do agree in principle.

As you describe, I have tried and registered many programs and the ones I come back to are Zoot and more recently Brainstorm (plus a mind mapping program), but both zoot and Brainstorm have a gap because I need something to work with images as well.

Photos that I may use in a presentation or graphs/charts/tables/printouts from Statistics programs, which I then write text around, or images from a GIS, which I again write around.

ndxCards offers a way of managing text and images together that Zoot and Brainstorm don’t. The problem is that its usefulness goes beyond that and its working out how I integrate it into my workflow that is the problem, not a hunt to find some use for it, just because I think its a great program.

The list of great prgrams is never ending. Fortunately, I am so entwined with the few programs that I do use, that it needs to fill a gap (or at least I need to think it does) before I now register it.

Graham

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