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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 13, 2012 at 08:09 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>It doesn’t sound as if you’d necessarily find Notebooks any
>more advantageous than Outline+ (which I also use, and have a great respect for), but
>you might like to take a look. It’s an app that steadily grows on you (I’m also now using
>it for task/to-do management, after trying literally hundreds of
>alternatives!)
If and when you find the time, could you briefly describe how you use a note-oriented application for tak management? I have ended up doing the same thing with a simple .txt file—which I find quite ironic given the number of specialised applications that I have tried. I’m not really happy with it, but at least it doesn’t get in the way and it’s always available wherever I may find myself (via Dropbox and Android phone) which I find the two most important aspects. Ideally, you might want to start a separate thread.
Posted by Foolness
Oct 13, 2012 at 06:00 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>>It doesn’t sound as if you’d necessarily find Notebooks any
>
>>more advantageous than Outline+ (which I also use, and have a great respect for),
>but
>>you might like to take a look. It’s an app that steadily grows on you (I’m also now
>using
>>it for task/to-do management, after trying literally hundreds of
>
>>alternatives!)
>
>If and when you find the time, could you briefly describe how you
>use a note-oriented application for tak management? I have ended up doing the same
>thing with a simple .txt file—which I find quite ironic given the number of
>specialised applications that I have tried. I’m not really happy with it, but at least
>it doesn’t get in the way and it’s always available wherever I may find myself (via
>Dropbox and Android phone) which I find the two most important aspects. Ideally, you
>might want to start a separate thread.
>
I’m obviously not MadAboutDana but it’s important to distinguish note-oriented application from sticky note/cork board oriented application for task management.
One is simply removing the bullet point check boxes associated with to-do lists and framing it into a different box that resembles a column view/spreadsheet scale.
The other may or may not utilize file attachments to create image associations on a basic level but on a true scale may be more about note taking to create tasks instead of merely storing notes on them. An example philosophy might be to rereading ones’ notes, find out what you did yesterday and then decide what you would do today. Very basic journal level stuff but it’s extremely tricky when it comes to software/software methodology.
For .txt implementing folders (not meant for organization) is different from implementing straight .txt notes for example. Say a .txt being contained in a folder that contains parts of the same entry but with images and docs and spreadsheets for the same folder name/.txt name thus allowing for one entry to have different “views” rather than different “tags”.
Posted by PIMUsee
Oct 15, 2012 at 08:49 PM
Sorry for taking so long to come back to this thread. I believe that for now I’ll stick with Onenote since Microsoft has continued to develop it and I believe that it will become nice to use when they can come up with a metro version for the iPad. My concerns about future-proofing are not too bad since I know Microsoft will stick with Onenote for the foreseeable future. Because of that, I’m sticking with my system that I based off of Daniel’s system for his Circus Ponies notebook. Where I have notes from my sources in one notebook then I have a topic notebook dedicated to specific topics (neuroanatomy, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, etc.).
However, if Onenote were to ever go to hell (very possible when it’s Microsoft that’s developing stuff), I would probably moved to a system of either Dokuwiki or ConnectedText since they both use plain text as the way to hold their files. Then with appropriate file naming for my images, and referencing to the file names in the text, I can create a fairly future proof system too. But as of right now, there’s no good wiki that works on both iPad and my desktop without having to be connected to the internet all the time.
Posted by PIMUsee
Oct 15, 2012 at 08:52 PM
Forgot to include link, but here’s Daniel’s system for Circus Ponies notebook I was talking about:
http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2009/09/circus-ponies-notebook-for-academic-writing-eg-thesis-writing/
http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2009/09/circus-ponies-notebook-the-best-tool-for-structuring-creative-writing-projects-esp-research-projects/
http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2009/09/circus-ponies-notebook-and-scrivener-for-writing/
Also, if any of you are interested in comparing Wikis. When I first did my search, I used WikiMatrix (http://www.wikimatrix.org/) before deciding to test out both Dokuwiki and ConnectedText.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 17, 2012 at 03:57 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I like Quant’s suggestion of using a powerful PDF editor
>(like PDF Xchange Viewer, which is amazingly good).
I just had a bit of a problem with viewing a PDF in Firefox with the XChange Viewer (free version!), and this time I bothered to email the error report. I received a response in a matter of minutes from their support guy. Wow! Very impressed. The problem had nothing to do with XChange Viewer in the end. Excellent service.