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Posted by Jack Crawford
Dec 6, 2006 at 01:57 AM
Thanks for the various observations about Whiz Folders. I haven’t had a look at it for quite some time and it seems to be coming along nicely.
It reminds me of a cross-between Treepad Biz and Brainstorm - not a bad place to be!
Jack
Posted by Wojciech
Dec 6, 2006 at 10:45 AM
Hi!
NW wrote:
....but I am looking for
>something is designed specifically for this sort of task which will help me organise
>my research and write a draft.
Has anybody tried GoBinder
http://www.gobinder.com/
in this context? It is basically note-taking software with some additional capabilities. I learnt about it some time ago but had no time to check it out.
Wojciech
Posted by NW
Dec 6, 2006 at 02:12 PM
Wojciech,
Gobinder offers similar facilties to OneNote, but is a more ‘all in one’ package by having calendar and tasks included, whereas OneNote, not surprsingly replies on integration with Outlook for these features. The big advantage that GoBinder had when I looked at it when it first came out was the ability to ‘print’ documents into it. This was subsequently addressed by PowerToys for OneNote 2003 and is included in OneNote 2007.
PS For those interested a 60 day trial on OneNote 2007 is available but at the moment available to US citizens only. According to one the OneNote developer’s blogs this should be extended to more countries ‘soon’.
GoBinder/OneNote are good as a ‘reference system’ for collating documents and I already have most of my MSc notes for the taught module stored in OneNote.
Nigel
Wojciech wrote:
>Hi!
>
>NW wrote:
>....but I am looking for
>>something is designed specifically for
>this sort of task which will help me organise
>>my research and write a draft.
>
>Has
>anybody tried GoBinder
>http://www.gobinder.com/
>in this context? It is
>basically note-taking software with some additional capabilities. I learnt about
>it some time ago but had no time to check it out.
>
>Wojciech
Posted by NW
Dec 6, 2006 at 02:24 PM
The problem with many of these types of programs such as TreePad, and from a quick look at Whizfolders it may suffer from the same issues, is that the User Interface (menu system, toolbars and shortcut keys) is overly complex and not intuitive. I recently revisited some of these types of basic outliner programs and it seemed that ActionOutline would be my choice, if I was selecting one. The downside is that it isn’t as feature rich as some of the others.
Nigel
Jack Crawford wrote:
>Thanks for the various observations about Whiz Folders. I haven’t had a look at it for
>quite some time and it seems to be coming along nicely.
>
>It reminds me of a
>cross-between Treepad Biz and Brainstorm - not a bad place to be!
>
>Jack
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 6, 2006 at 02:55 PM
It has become clear to me during my exploration of these packages that intuitiveness is very much a property of the user rather than the software itself. I find WhizFolders completely intuitive, along with Ariadne, for example; whereas Zoot and ADM are purgatory to me. I think the user needs to find a package that not only does what they want it to do, but suits their way of thinking and working.
Graham
NW wrote:
>
>The problem with many of these types of programs such as TreePad, and from a quick look
>at Whizfolders it may suffer from the same issues, is that the User Interface (menu
>system, toolbars and shortcut keys) is overly complex and not intuitive. I recently
>revisited some of these types of basic outliner programs and it seemed that
>ActionOutline would be my choice, if I was selecting one. The downside is that it isn’t
>as feature rich as some of the others.
>
>Nigel