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Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 3, 2012 at 09:20 PM
Glen Coulthard wrote:
>Surfulater - Purchased back when it was actively being developed, but it never met
>expectations set by MacroPool’s WebResearch
Hi Glen,
What are those expectations? I looked at MacroPool’s website but I can’t see any huge difference between WebResearch and Surfulater. (I’ve been using the latter for some years.)
Posted by Cassius
Mar 3, 2012 at 11:12 PM
1. Does anyone have a reason for preferring WebResearch to myInfo?
2. MOST USED PIMS: I use myiInfo for saving Web pages and related notes. For text, I use Jot Plus, which is no longer being developed. (I keep looking for a replacement, but a) can’t find one that imports Jot files directly, b) have no desire to look for a topic in x different PIMs and c) it is very easy to use and has rtf and Web links.)
Rather than keep all my info in one gigantic PIM database, I use separate folders for different topics (e.g., computer-related, house-related, medical, ...) [P.S., Speaking of medical, I’ve found I prescription drug, guanfacine, that improves short-term memory in old folks like me (also works in rate).]
(I have Surfulater, but prefer MyInfo.)
3. Other PIMs I use:
3a. Inspiration: Mainly as a successor to and updater of GrandView files, which I once used for everything. It’s fairly easy to import GV files into Inspiration. (Inspiration is also nice for creating charts, flow diagrams, etc.)
3b. Cinta Notes for quick notes.
3c. Ecco, now only for contact info, as I am retired and don’t need for meeting reminders, etc.
4. I have several other PIMs that I don’t use, or still keep because I once used them and have files in their formats. The “historical” PIMs include:
TreePad Business, into which I copied the contents of several earlier PIMs.
NoteMap 2, which was nice until it started losing what I was writing as I wrote.
5. I keep considering wikis…maybe some day I’ll find one I like. Same thing for PIMs with tags, some of which I think may take the place of Zoot and/or Personal Brain.
Posted by skylark
Mar 3, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Glen Coulthard wrote:
>It’s interesting to me that these conversations often reflect David Allen’s GTD
>principle of selecting a “trusted system”
I offer (bit of devils advocate in this offering) the best and will be forever ?trusted system??. A list!
Every time you go to a meeting you ?.make a list, you go shopping you ?.make a list. You asked to do something it goes on your?..list. Phones present you contacts, information, music and other to you nowadays?..on a finger scrollable list. You post to a forum it is on a ?.list!........my emails ?..are a list!
Control your lists…..you can put them in ?GTD? buckets if you want!
skylark
Posted by skylark
Mar 3, 2012 at 11:36 PM
by the way what with this forum putting spurious ?? into postings (when pasted from word) ? (the last one was meant!)
skylark
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 4, 2012 at 02:11 PM
Glen,
Thanks for the run down on the applications you use. Also, thanks for the great video of how to use your academic library file for ConnectedText.
My own list of applications is pretty convoluted, partly due to my multi platform existence, but also (much more so) due to CRIMP. Here it is:
At the office on a Windows PC—
- TheBrain (major repository of documents related to my job, project management hub)
- ConnectedText (main note taking and management application)
- FileMaker (managing customer database)
- Zoot (legacy data—I’m gradually using Zoot less and less, though I still admire it. I just find TheBrain and CT more enjoyable to use)
- Noteliner (for hammering out outlines)
- OneNote (using less and less now that I’m using TheBrain and CT more effectively, but still handy for capturing scanned images and sucking the text from them)
At home on my MacBook—
- TheBrain
- Tinderbox (for analyzing and thinking through projects and problems; keeping a day books)
- Scrivener (writing longer, more complex projects)
- MacJournal (writing one-off documents, journal)
- Bento (for structured data like tracking my reading list, collection data—syncs nicely with Bento app on my iPod Touch)
- DevonThink (my junk drawer for all stuff I want to keep, but don’t know where to put it)
For transferring data among my devices I use Evernote and TheBrain’s WebBrain service.
As convoluted as this appears, it is actually taking shape finally, thanks to TheBrain and ConnectedText. However, I think I’d trade them all in if I could get Tinderbox for Windows (with an adequate sync).
Steve Z.