Software Recommendation (Onenote vs. Others)

Posted by Foolness
Oct 13, 2012 at 06:00 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>>It doesn’t sound as if you’d necessarily find Notebooks any
> >>more advantageous than Outline+ (which I also use, and have a great respect for),
>but
>>you might like to take a look. It’s an app that steadily grows on you (I’m also now
>using
>>it for task/to-do management, after trying literally hundreds of
> >>alternatives!)
> >If and when you find the time, could you briefly describe how you
>use a note-oriented application for tak management? I have ended up doing the same
>thing with a simple .txt file—which I find quite ironic given the number of
>specialised applications that I have tried. I’m not really happy with it, but at least
>it doesn’t get in the way and it’s always available wherever I may find myself (via
>Dropbox and Android phone) which I find the two most important aspects. Ideally, you
>might want to start a separate thread.
>

I’m obviously not MadAboutDana but it’s important to distinguish note-oriented application from sticky note/cork board oriented application for task management.

One is simply removing the bullet point check boxes associated with to-do lists and framing it into a different box that resembles a column view/spreadsheet scale.

The other may or may not utilize file attachments to create image associations on a basic level but on a true scale may be more about note taking to create tasks instead of merely storing notes on them. An example philosophy might be to rereading ones’ notes, find out what you did yesterday and then decide what you would do today. Very basic journal level stuff but it’s extremely tricky when it comes to software/software methodology.

For .txt implementing folders (not meant for organization) is different from implementing straight .txt notes for example. Say a .txt being contained in a folder that contains parts of the same entry but with images and docs and spreadsheets for the same folder name/.txt name thus allowing for one entry to have different “views” rather than different “tags”.