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Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012
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Posted by dan7000
Sep 27, 2012 at 05:44 PM
Current software:
- Mindomo for outlining and brainstorming. This is one change from last year, and it’s working out very well.
- The other new tool since last year: Producteev for task management. After many years of Outlook with the Taskliner plugin, I became too bothered by the unavailability of my tasks on platforms other than Windows. Producteev seemed to be the best of the online task managers, and it has android, windows, and ios native apps. It’s easy to email tasks in from Outlook or elsewhere, and they have easy email subject-line options for setting due dates, tags, and folders right from the email. I don’t get the dynamic task scheduling that I used to like with Taskline, but am not missing it too much. I miss not having durations, so I’m using the priority level for that: 1 star is one hour, etc. Short tasks have no stars. I find it’s easy to filter my tasks and see only the starred items to get a big picture of how overloaded I am over the next couple of days.
- Evernote for collecting information and taking notes. I later link many notes into Mindomo
- Outlook for work email and for calendaring. Gmail for personal email. Moved contacts over to gmail for the most part, rather than outlook. Again, I like having them on many devices and gmail seems more permanent and flexible.
- Word for documents. I can do an outline in Mindomo and then export to Word.
Posted by Donovan
Oct 7, 2012 at 01:28 AM
I’m still using an old version of *GSNotes* (Golden Section Notes http://www.tgslabs.com/en/gsnotes/index.php )...used it for years. But, I’m seriously thinking about a switch to RightNote. It’s been awhile since GSNotes has been updated but there’s no bugs or anything and still does what I need. I like some of the RightNote export options better and it’s obviously still being developed.
I also use *CintaNotes* for to-dos and *NoteFrog PRO* for my main text dump. I absolutley LOVE the NoteFrog instant-database-as-html feature (don’t really know what to call it - it’s fairly unique in operation) here’s what a sample instant html looks like: http://notewindow.com/frog/x/demostack.html
I also use *‘Drafts’* a lot on my iPad. I use the “append to DropBox” function which is worth the small cost of the program in itself.
Finally, all of the above is used to eventually find a place in whatever I’m working on in *Scrivener*.
Good thread!
Posted by razorboy
Oct 14, 2012 at 05:11 AM
“”“"Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 22, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Further on the Fall 2012 Outliner/PIM roll call, here is the top 10 list of software links that visitors (mostly from Outliner Software) clicked on the most on my blog:
1. ConnectedText – personal wiki
2. Mindsystems Amode V2 – project management
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Thanks for the lead to Amode, Doc. The videos indicate that it is remarkably well thunk-out. I shall do a trial as soon as time permits.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 14, 2012 at 03:57 PM
razorboy wrote:
>Thanks for the lead to
>Amode, Doc. The videos indicate that it is remarkably well thunk-out. I shall do a
>trial as soon as time permits.
Read some more about Dr Andus’ impression of Amode here: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3945/30
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 15, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>razorboy wrote:
>>Thanks for the lead to
>>Amode, Doc. The videos indicate that it is
>remarkably well thunk-out. I shall do a
>>trial as soon as time permits.
>
>Read some
>more about Dr Andus’ impression of Amode here:
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3945/30
I’m still very happy with Amode, although I only use it for project management. Having set up my project many months ago (which was fun with Amode), now I only use it to monitor my project progress and to “complete” my tasks (I do it daily and the app is open in the background). It’s satisfying to watch the progress bar in the bottom left corner of the Gantt chart telling me I’m 45% done of my 9 months, 505 hours 55 min long project.
There is only one niggle, but a minor one. If you close the application and reopen it, you have to manually readjust the width of the task list pane in the Gantt window to show all the text of the tasks. But I can live with that.