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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 1, 2011 at 01:47 PM
Two alternative answers, depending on the viewpoint. I don’t consider this cheating because I have a double role (I’m a consultant and project manager) and success in my field depends both on
- Information collection and recall: for this I have found nothing more powerful and convenient than Evernote;
and
- Organisation: even though I am not an Excel power user, I believe that I could do most things I need in this area with spreadsheets. I would opt for Treesheets’ if its numerical capability was more advanced (right now it’s experimental and undocumented)
That said, I would be rather miserable without much of the ecosystem of (to a great extent redundant) tools that I have come to acquire over the years…
Posted by Susanne
Aug 1, 2011 at 04:26 PM
Steve,
you wrote that
>...........I use a combination of PersonalBrain and OneNote for managing most of
>my projects, but I could, if need be, use Zoot for that—in fact, it could handle that
>pretty well, I think.
I would be very interested in how you use personal brain. For the last week or so, I have been playing around with it and need to come to a decision whether to buy it or not. Lately I am developing a marked preference for net- or web-like information handling rather than the hierarchical outliners.
The only thing holding me back is that I am not sure how it works with lots of information - would you mind sharing your experience?
Thanks, Susanne
Posted by Graham Rhind
Aug 1, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Susanne,
If I may just butt in here, as I’m a heavy user of Personal Brain myself, mainly for creating web sites:
- Having a lot of thoughts does not have any significant effect on performance that I have noticed. I have a glossary, for example, with >6500 thoughts, without any noticeable slowing down.
- Where there is a limit is in the size of the notes within each thought. In one of my brains I have notes which may contain >30 graphic-heavy pages. Working with these, and saving them, grinds to a halt at a certain point. For those chapters I have to use the data as an attachment instead of putting it into a note.
Graham
Susanne wrote:
>I would be very interested in
>how you use personal brain. For the last week or so, I have been playing around with it
>and need to come to a decision whether to buy it or not. Lately I am developing a marked
>preference for net- or web-like information handling rather than the hierarchical
>outliners.
>
>The only thing holding me back is that I am not sure how it works with lots
>of information - would you mind sharing your experience?
Posted by Graham Rhind
Aug 1, 2011 at 05:09 PM
Visual Foxpro. I can’t work without it and, if I had to, I could replace many other programs with it.
Graham
DaXiong wrote:
>What is
>the absolute one piece of software you have to have?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 1, 2011 at 05:16 PM
Susanne,
I’ll be happy to answer that question, but I’ll do so in a new thread so as not to hijack this one.
(Thanks for asking, as I LOVE to converse about this stuff!)
Steve Z.
Susanne wrote:
>Steve,
>you wrote that
>
>>...........I use a combination of PersonalBrain and
>OneNote for managing most of
>>my projects, but I could, if need be, use Zoot for that—
>in fact, it could handle that
>>pretty well, I think.
>
>I would be very interested in
>how you use personal brain. For the last week or so, I have been playing around with it
>and need to come to a decision whether to buy it or not. Lately I am developing a marked
>preference for net- or web-like information handling rather than the hierarchical
>outliners.
>
>The only thing holding me back is that I am not sure how it works with lots
>of information - would you mind sharing your experience?
>Thanks, Susanne
>