Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 17, 2012 at 08:23 PM

shatteredmindofbob wrote:

>My set up is in a bit of a transition at the moment. I’m attempting to work with an all
>plain-text system, though on Windows where it’s far less trendy.

I’m in a similar situation. I’ve written elsewhere of the benefits of plain text, but reducing the footprint of my programs is another reason. So, I follow your post with a comparison of selected solutions.

>I’m using UV Outliner as a writing outliner.

It is Brainstorm for me; also Emeditor with the outline plugin more recently.

>Resophnotes, storing everything in text files to handle quick notes.

Same here. Along with Simplenote for syncing; though I had an issue with lost content recently and am feeling a bit insecure.

>I’ve been doing more of my actual writing in WriteMonkey

Same here. And Textroom in Linux.

>I’ve also enjoyed a little program called MarkdownPad, but it desperately needs spell check before it’ll be really useful.

Have you tried Asutype?

>TodoPaper for tasks/project management.

Once again looking for a workable solution for this; will try TodoPaper. In the meantime it’s GQueues (web) or simple text editors. I see that its developer plans to port it to Linux which is good news.

The thing is that I often need to have my task lists available on the road, so Android is often my starting point.

>E-mail and calendar is taken care of by Postbox with the Lightning extension.

Interesting; so you prefer Postbox to Thunderbird; do you find it more reliable or what?

>I’m in the process of evaluating some other apps to see if they’re useful to me.

I suggest you take a look (well, more than a look as it’s not so evident at first) to Sense.

>Ooh, I’m also playing with a text editor called SublimeText

Impressive indeed. My own choice is Emeditor. Among others, it has an nice simple outliner plugin; you can turn any simple test to a collapsable outline with a few prefix spaces.

A couple of additional useful goodies: Text Editor Anywhere, of which I heard here, brings up the editor of your choice whenever you have something to write, in whatever other program. And, PureText, which cleans text in the clipboard removing any formatting info, giving you plain text to paste anywhere.