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Posted by Jack Crawford
Nov 9, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Mind mappers here may be interested in a quick idea capture tool recently developed by Gyronix (the makers of the heavy duty Results Manager dashboard). It’s called GyroQ and looks very simple and useful.
Details (including a demo) are at http://www.gyronix.com/gyroq.
A Zdnet review is at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=203
Jack
Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 9, 2006 at 04:28 PM
GyroQ looks like a nifty piece of software, but at $29.95 it looks rather overpriced ($14.95 might have been more reasonable).
I’ve tried a number of system tray note-takers as a way of temporarily stacking up notes, ideas, random thoughts, to-do items, etc., before transferring them to more powerful software programs. Most of them have been based on the post-it notes formulation, and none of them has been really satisfactory.
GyroQ is intended to be used as a conduit to MindManager (hence the high cost), but the general idea of an immediately-available receptacle for quick notes is a very attractive one. Although I have Zoot permanently open and could use one of its databases (the “Atoms” one, for example) for random jottings, I don’t tend to do that - mainly because it is too much effort and interferes with my train of thought.
Currently I use HandyNotes (http://handynotes.net/), which is free, and sits in the system tray. I can’t say that I use it more than erratically, however. ZapNotes (http://www.typingpal.com/zapnotes/) is similar, but requires a somewhat intrusive form to be completed before one can download the free program.
What, if anything, do other people use?
Derek
Posted by Chris Murtland
Nov 9, 2006 at 04:36 PM
Zoot’s “Quick Note” (Alt+Z, u) feature is probably the quickest capture method I’ve seen for jotting down random thoughts. And since you already have Zoot running…
You can also set the destination database and folder for these notes, so they can all end up in one place for quick review and processing to other databases if needed. I always send Quick Notes and Quick Clips to an Inbox database where they show up along with incoming mail, etc. In fact, I find Zoot one of the easiest ways to set up a central digital inbox.
Chris
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 9, 2006 at 09:26 PM
Another handy, free notes program is Notebox Disorganizer
http://www.geocities.com/goosnargh37/NDC.html
With Notebox, you save notes to a table. It resides neatly in the system tray and you can pop up a scratch pad by right clicking on the icon. Text entered into the scratch pad can be saved to the note table.
Steve Z.
Posted by Wes Perdue
Nov 9, 2006 at 10:06 PM
Derek Cornish wrote:
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>What, if anything, do other people use?
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>Derek
I use two:
Stickies: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
and the Stickies Store are quote useful. Stickies is free.
OneNote 2007 has a cool feature called Side Note; all I need to do is hit Win+N, and I get a fresh page which is automatically filed in the Unfiled Notes section for processing later.
I tend to use stickies for short, limited-life stuff, and OneNote for items I’ll likely need later.
- Wes