EN 3 Changes and a Market Overview

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 03:09 PM

Stephen, I have tried The Brain a few times. This last time quite seriously.

I like the screen action—up to a point, then it gets disconcerting.

Apparently there are people with thousands of files connected to The Brain, and they love it.

The Brain has moved ahead a lot with note keeping, calendar, embedded file capabilities, etc.

I think is is quite a good program, but not for me. Although…if I had three months of using it exclusively, I might like it.

I looked at Personal Knowbase after you mentioned it here again. It is a little too simple for me, but its use of key words or tags is good. Incidentally, if Neville could get a system like that for his category tree, he’d have a winning combination in Surfulater.

OneNote came on my new Toshiba, and frankly I haven’t been tempted to play with it. Perhaps I should.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Daly,
> >A few notable applications you left off your list:
> >* OneNote is quite
>powerful, though it is quite different than most of the information managers
>discussed here. It has the support of the titan behind it. I believe one reason for
>EverNote’s change in direction is that version 2.2 was competing directly with ON…
>and even though EN was cheaper (in fact free), it appears to have been losing that
>battle. The biggest issue with ON is that it still does not play as well with its own
>siblings (Word, Excel) as it could.
> >* The Brain… which I do not know much about…
>Is it an information manager or a mind mapper?
> >* Personal Knowbase… I know it
>doesn’t have much of a following on this forum, but it has always appealed to me in its
>simplicity. A keyword based note card system… a stripped down version of
>InfoHandler. Still has a loyal following.
> >And as long as you’re mentioning
>Treepad, we should probably mention the other long-in-the-tooth two-pane
>outliners: Jot+, ActionOutliner, Maple and BlackHole Organizer. These were
>exciting when they first came out six or seven years ago, but now have been passed by. I
>must say, however, that I still use Treepad Lite fairly often. It is quick and easy to
>use, is a single executable file (so can be used from a USB drive), and the lack of bells
>and whistles is just right for some jobs.
> >Steve Z.