When discussion specific products, could people specify what platforms they run on?

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Posted by George Entenman
Jun 14, 2009 at 05:23 PM

I love the discussions here and look up a lot of recommendations. But it is an unnecessary time sink if the software doesn’t run on OS X, and I’m sure that not running on Windows is a waste of time for others. (I use linux and windows but not for note taking.)

BTW, I’ve come to the baseless generalization that sites that do NOT mention the platform that their products run on are almost always for Windows. I have to go to a download page to find out.

hth,
ge

Posted by Wes Perdue
Jun 15, 2009 at 04:49 AM

George,

Your conclusion is correct; when a product is mentioned here and its platform is not, it is very likely Windows-only. There are very few cross-platform apps, and those that are are usually strong on at most one platform. I am in fact implying that some cross-platform apps are good on no platform, because of compromises made.

I switched to Mac about 15 months ago, and have become more aware of this situation. Mac users have the distinct advantage in this situation, with Fusion and Parallels, so we really have the best of both worlds.

One cross-platform that is very good on both platforms is Evernote. I use it every day on both platforms (and on my iPhone too) for both work and personal use.

I believe there is one very good cross-platform outliner that has been developed recently for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, but its name escapes me at the moment.

Otherwise, it seems all the good stuff is either for Windows or MacOS.

Regards,
Wes

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 15, 2009 at 06:29 AM

Wes,

the outliner you mentioned is probably Notecase Pro which runs on Windows / Mac / Linux (including the Nokia Maemo) as well as FreeBSD and Open Solaris.

These days even ‘cross-platform’ can be used in a limited sense, meaning (usually, I think) Windows / Mac OS X. Yet, for me at least, Linux is now the second OS after Windows. I love Evernote and have bought a premium subscription, but it still doesn’t support Linux—though I admit that its support for iPhone and Blackberry makes it a tempting reason to buy such a device.

Defining ‘cross-platform’ as Windows / Mac / Linux, here’s my own short list of useful outliner-like software; I’m sure there’s more, though probably not much:

- Notecase Pro http://www.virtual-sky.com/index.php
- Personal Brain http://www.thebrain.com/
- TreeSheets http://www.treesheets.com/
- Xmind http://www.xmind.net/

Alexander

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 15, 2009 at 10:33 AM

To the cross platform list, you can add the following two apps, which I mention, because I think they are both pretty good:

SuperNoteCard (http://www.mindola.com)

Notebook wiki (http://notebook.wjduquette.com/)

Steve Z.

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