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Unusual question: the most geeky outliner/PIM
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 7, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Well, there’s tech-geeky and outliner-geeky, and I would have to concede that the outliner-geeky award probably belongs to MaxThink, with Tao on the Mac a close second!
MaxThink was originally a DOS application. I think it took Neil Larson about 15 years to convert it to Windows, but it appears to be written in Visual Basic. But he has been updating it continually… the last time was in June, I believe. The price is pretty reasonable, so it is worth giving it a go… or at least viewing the numerous tutorials.
Steve Z.
Posted by David Dunham
Nov 7, 2009 at 07:46 PM
Jack Crawford wrote:
>Maxthink is in a world of its own ... somewhere in the
>stratosphere.
Wow.
Instead of showing how long since your last save, why not have autosave? (OK, he didn’t use Cocoa so it wasn’t something like 1 line of code like I had to write in Opal, but still…)
Posted by Chris Thompson
Nov 8, 2009 at 03:25 AM
It’s ‘org-mode’ by a huge margin. Geekiest in terms of breadth of features, architecture, programmability (not just scripting, but meta-programming of the system itself). If I was an Emacs person, this would be the only PIM/outliner/writing system/task manager/Swiss Army knife I needed.
Posted by Jerome
Nov 8, 2009 at 07:55 PM
I think you’re right, you either are an emacs person or you’re not… During my days as a Unix developer a few years back, I used to be a VI guy (vs Emacs). I’m still using VI (or VIM) a lot and I’ve never invested a lot of time in emacs beyond basic editing… maybe I should…
Cheers /jerome
Posted by jamesofford
Nov 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM
I’m surprised that no one mentioned Zoot. I have mostly moved over to the Mac, and am using Devonthink and Evernote there, but Zoot on the PC is powerful, and if it doesn’t fit the definition of geeky, I don’t know what does.
Jim