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Posted by Cassius
Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21 PM

I happened across some old, October 2003 savings from outliners.com, pimlist, etc. For example, Daly was becoming involved with Ariadne (purely platonic…I think), and was still using InfoSelect and also MyBase.

Time has moved on, and I expect that many of us have moved on since 2003 to other PIMS/software. So, I thought it might be interesting for those willing (and having the time) to describe what they were using then and what they are using now.

I’ll start:

2003:
GrandView (under Win 98 & 2000), mostly for work items. (At one time I used it for EVERYTHING.)
Ecco, for contact list, planning/meeting listings, some work items.
Jot Plus, for most of my info saving—both work & personal
Maple and WinOrganizer, for personal stuff, mostly 9/11 images
TreePad, only a bit, for personal stuff
Inspiration, mostly for work info saving and using for outlines and diagrams that were put into published reports.
MyBase for saving Web pages
NoteMap, only a little—not for anything important.

Now (that I’m retired)
GrandView (under WinXP), really only for storing non-important passwords
Ecco, only for contact info
Jot Plus for most of my info saving
MyBase for Web page saves and related info

Maple was dropped because the vendor kept changing the file format and stopped providing automatic support for enabling old files to easily open in new Maple versions. I transferred all material from Maple to TreePad or Jot+.

I still have WinOrganizer, but an old version as the current one has a different file format. Some day, I’ll probably move the WinOrganizer files to another format.

I don’t think GV will run under Vista (Please tell me I’m wrong!!!), so I’ll have to convert some of its files to rtf or Inspiration.

I’m not sure why I use Jot+ instead of TreePad, other than I have a lot of stuff in Jot+.

I also have Surfulater, UltraRecall Pro, ListPro, WebResearch Pro, and Page Four. I prefer MyBase to Surfulater. Some day I may get around to trying the others.

I’ve thought a lot about writing a general-interest, non-fiction book that I’ve been working out in my head. Perhaps I’ll use NoteMap or Page Four for it.

-c

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 11, 2007 at 01:04 PM

Interesting question, but I probably don’t have a very interesting reply. I’m not even sure I remember what I was using in 2003, but here’s my best guess.

2003 -
Zoot
InfoSelect
MyBase
ListPro
Personal Knowbase
AskSam
The Journal
WhizFolders

Today -
Zoot
OneNote
ListPro (for very specific application)
Personal Knowbase (for very specific application)
The Journal

I should explain this listing. These are the programs I definitely use regularly for information management. The list of applications that I own would be embarassingly long, and would likely lead to my being quarantined for drug-resistant CRIMP. Zoot is, of course, my workhorse, and I’ve become very reliant on OneNote. I use Personal Knowbase for managing the descriptions for the catalog of products I put together for the publisher I work for.

Of course, being CRIMPed, I am not entirely satisfied with this system.

Steve Z.

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 11, 2007 at 08:10 PM

A very interesting question.

Here my lists:

2003:
- ADM
- Personal Brain
- InfoSelect

today:
- Ultra Recall Professional
- Mind Manager 7 Pro
- Automise 2 (automation)
- Visual C++ express
- Word, Excel 2003/2007 + VBA
- Eclipse/Java

Dominik

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jun 11, 2007 at 08:47 PM

Hi.

Let’s see if I remember the info management and writing tools I used in 2003:

- Infoselect
- Notemap
- Mindmanager
- Storylines
- Microsoft Office 2003 incl. Outlook

Today:
2 weeks ago my Windows PC died (I managed to rescue the hard disk containing all data). I built a new PC and decided to install only the software I really need and use.

Here is what I installed and use now:
- Infoselect 2007
- Textanz ( a useful tool for making sure I do not overly use certain words)
- OpenOffice.org
- TheBat (as mail client) - though that may be replaced by Thunderbird in the next weeks

Next week, I will probably install:
- Mind Genius (for brainstorming a new project)
- Surfulator (the web clipping feature in Infoselect is rather poor)

I also installed Ideamason 3.1 - just to see if it is faster on my new 2 GHz machine, which it isn’t. As I do not need IM for my current projects, I just uninstalled it.

No more need for Notemap and Storylines.

Franz

Posted by Bob Mackreth
Jun 11, 2007 at 11:06 PM

Cassius wrote:
>I happened across some old, October 2003 savings from outliners.com, pimlist, etc.
>For example, Daly was becoming involved with Ariadne (purely platonic…I think),
>and was still using InfoSelect and also MyBase.
> >Time has moved on, and I expect that
>many of us have moved on since 2003 to other PIMS/software. So, I thought it might be
>interesting for those willing (and having the time) to describe what they were using
>then and what they are using now.

Okay, I’m in.

2003:

ECCO- general PIM duties, plus one vital research database, heavily cross-referenced.
AskSam- unstructured information dump for everything else
Eudora- email

2007:

ECCO- general PIM duties, plus one vital research database, heavily cross-referenced. (i.e., no change here)
MyInfo- structured information storage for almost everything else
Surfulater- storage of web clippings where format and appearance are important
NoteMap- writing tool
Barca- email, and hopes that some day its tasks and calendar functions (pitiful now) will be useful enough I can migrate that function from ECCO

(What about 1993? IIRC, it would have been Pegasus Mail for email, and KAMAS (MS-DOS) for almost everything else.)

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