Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2011

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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 24, 2011 at 08:01 AM

My basic setup—the one which has withstood the test of several months:

- Mail: Google Apps email with IMAP access / Thunderbird

- Collection of material: Evernote

- Text development: Brainstorm

- Project plans: TreeSheets

- Working files: Dropbox

- Bits and pieces of reference information: UltraRecall (contacts), LinkStash (weblinks)

One important factor for making my info management programs compatible, was the creation of a common tag hierarchy; I’ve had to re-create this in every relevant program, but it was worth the effort.

Some newer tools that seem to be here to stay:

- Sense: though not as intuitive as I would like, it’s getting better, and its micro/macro view is unrivaled

- Yammer: for daily activity journaling

For task management, I’m still cycling between GQueues, Brainstorm and Noteliner—and also my head as a result.