My Perfect Toolbox if All Applications were Cross Platform

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 10, 2010 at 11:12 PM

Hi Chris and welcome :-)

Very interesting post; “cross-platform” has been in my mind for sometime, though in my case I work between Windows and Linux so my list would be somewhat different. Also, web and/or mobile access is becoming more and more important for me. In this regard, iPhone/Mac users are really spoilt and Android users are getting there soon!

My contributions:

- I came across Simplenotes http://simplenoteapp.com an iPhone / iPod touch / iPad application that looks like a very light version of Evernote. Information can be synced and accessed via the web, and third party developers have provided several offline desktop apps (mosly for Mac) and other goodies http://simplenoteapp.com/extras including a nice client for Windows http://www.resoph.com/ResophNotes/Welcome.html I think it is ideal for people that only want text notes, especially on netbooks, because the Evernote client is really heavy.

- Zimbra Desktop http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html looks like a capable replacement for Outlook in Windows, Mac and Linux; I’m only just trying it out though.

- Notecase Pro http://www.virtual-sky.com/index.php is my favourite cross-platform ‘classic’ outliner

- Treesheets http://www.treesheets.com/
is my new favourite bird’s eye view 3-D notebook

- Simidude http://www.agynamix.de/products/simidude/ is
an excellent cross-platform clipboard; I don’t know what I’d do without it

- Mindmanager versions exist for Windows and Mac but not Linux; an alternative is Xmind http://www.xmind.net/ but I don’t like their subscription oriented pricing for the Pro version.

- Last but not least, I concur with the positive words on Personal Brain; I also believe that the web version and syncing will eventually become a very important feature