Workflow of Dual CRIMPers -- those fortunate folks using both Macs and Windows PCs

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 11, 2010 at 01:05 PM

Just for the record, Cady’s summary of the various input, also covers in a nutshell my own experience working between Windows and Linux.

An additional disadvantage in the case of Linux is that some ‘cross-platform’ programs available for Windows and Mac are not available for Linux; Evernote is one example of a such a program which I use regularly.

An advantage is that there’s a lot of excellent free/open-source software to choose from.

Last but not least, another program that I have praised here in the past and which has helped me very much (within a network) is Agynamix Simidude, a cross-platform clipboard shared among networked machines.

Cady wrote:
>Thank you all for your input, it’s a big help to see it from your perspective. So the way
>to go is probably: (1) Share between platforms mainly a selection of documents - PDFs,
>RTFs, (DOCs),TXTs - using a sync service (sugarsync, dropbox etc.) or a USB thumb
>drive (or my iPod for that matter, set to enable disc use); (2) Consider a minority of
>cross-platform applications (Evernote, Personal Brain, Xmind etc.); (3) Deal with
>the harsh fact that at some point, one stops trying so hard to maintain identical sets
>of data on his two machines…