Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call

Posted by Graham Rhind
Jan 8, 2016 at 11:54 AM

Like many others I’ve found a fairly stable batch of programs for information management which haven’t changed that much in 2015. I’m Windows only (and that won’t change), I avoid cloud-only solutions, and learned long ago not to try to find one program to do everything, and not to push programs I do use to do things they can’t do comfortably.

So it’s:

- OneNote for knowledge archiving
- ConnectedText for large interconnected data sets, such as glossaries, especially those to be uploaded as websites
- Personal Brain 6 only to hold my family tree and some customer data. The Brain 9 will have to be astonishing for me to upgrade
- GS-Base for structured information (but Visual Foxpro for true database management)
- Ariadne (5) for some notes that don’t seem to want to go elsewhere.

I’m using Workflowy just for a single project because of it’s easy filtering by tag, but I’m not overly impressed.

So that’s it. I reckon by the end of 2016 nothing would have come along to have changed this very much, but who knows?

Graham