Debrief Notes

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 20, 2007 at 11:35 PM

Just saw the url and page for Debrief Notes—a new one to me.

Anyone familiar with it?

http://debriefnotes.com/concept.htm

Cheers,

Daly

Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:01 AM

Hi Daly,

Check out this thread:

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/338/0/new-product-alert-debrief

Chris

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 21, 2007 at 01:12 PM

I’ve bought a license to the pro version ($39.95 US). So far I like the program. It has a few too many features, and is missing some important functions, but overall I appreciate the various ways notes can be organized.

Pros:
Notes can be orgranized and viewed by folders, index words, and date.
Notes can be flagged in various categories (needs attention, in progress) and added to a favorites list.
Various notes can be gathered into note decks and viewed as one long document
One note type is a rudimentary outline. Each item in the outline can be associated with a note.
Other information types which can be added to Debrief include contacts, cases, references, and tasks.
Notes can be associated with other types of information, so you can associate a note with a contact, for instance.
Planner view.

Cons:
Not an intuitive interface, though I don’t find it complex as some folks on this list did.
Currently lacking quick, convenient ways to import data from other sources.
Lacks import of contact data from Outlook or CSV file.

I’ve contacted the developers and have received a response that they will be adding some of these features. Of course, no guarantees.

In short, Debreif notes does a lot of things. Some it does well and others not so well. I decided to use it for my daily notes because of its organizational capability. In this way, it complements Zoot and OneNote for my purposes.

Steve Z.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 21, 2007 at 01:34 PM

One other missing fuction for Debrief that I forgot to mention: No hyperlinks.

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jun 25, 2007 at 06:27 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>In short, Debreif notes does a lot of things.
>Some it does well and others not so well. I decided to use it for my daily notes because of
>its organizational capability. In this way, it complements Zoot and OneNote for my
>purposes.

Debrief has the ability to tear off part of a note and from it _immediately_ create another note in a specific location. This seems so useful a function that I have long-wondered why no one offers it. Even OneNote goes only part of the way there.

The program has one giant limitation. In one word or two, depending on how you count: multi-selection. You are limited to the old one topic at a time reorganization in its tree; your selection to drag and drop, to create a note, must be a single, contiguous text unit.

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