Using Personal Brain without making a huge mess

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 1, 2011 at 10:36 PM

Susanne, much as I like MyInfo, it is not a good program for dealing with web clips.

I prefer Surfulater. I’ve stopped using Evernote since I found I can sync Surfulater between two computers by way of Dropbox.

I’ve also been testing Springpad. I like, except for fact I’ve discovered it only displays a short form of urls, which is a bit of a pain if you need to cite your source.

Thanks to a Bits du Jour special I rediscovered - and bought - ClipCache this week. It does a great job of saving anything and everything by using the Windows clipboard.

And I agree with you re wikis. I tend to feel they are over-rated, but that may just because I don’t “get” them.

I am convinced I could find Connected Text useful, but its like a foreign language to me. I won’t say more about it because last time I complained about it being incomprehensible to me, one the members here whom I had especially respected, threw a hissy fit at my response to his favourite piece of software, and resigned from this list, never to be heard from again.

Oh well.

And in good CRIMPing style, I bought The Journal today at half price from Bits du Jour.

But The Brain is starting to look good - but I’m not going there, at least not today.

Cheers,

Daly

Susanne wrote:
>Thanks for the wealth of information you shared!
> >I cannot use Zoot (which I do love)
>for the simple reason that I am prohibited by our great and wonderful IT department
>from installing software on my work notebook. Zoot won’t run on a stick, the brain
>will.
>Being the CRIMPer that I am, of course I have both UltraRecall and MyInfo -
>UltraRecall is too slow copying Web information and can’t seem to get around the
>microsoft dll problems for displaying documents etc. MyInfo would normally be my
>first choice - yeah it is tabular and hierarchical but the tagging is one of the best I
>have seen - however, half of the web clips come over without the graphics and messed up
>formatting.
> >Also too, I am coming to prefer the ideal of associative thinking
>rather than linear thinking - this is much better supported by the brain or even Wikis,
>such as Connected Text. My only problem with the Wikis is that they seem to have this
>“real men code formats” attitude - is it really such a problem to have bold, bullets
>etc. as word-like functions? Do I really need to enter codes in front of and after the
>texts - that is soooo 1980’s and does not make me feel cool. - ok, sorry, rant
>over
> >Anyway, thanks again for sharing, I will certainly try out a few of these ideas
>as long as my trial is still going,
> >Susanne