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Posted by john oconnor
Oct 14, 2007 at 11:18 PM

Thank you Stephen. If I start with my information already contained in a program like Ndxcards do Evernote or OnenNote add any value or would they be redundant. Second is Ndxcards the best index card software.

Thanks

John O’Connor

Posted by Jack Crawford
Oct 15, 2007 at 03:53 AM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>I see EverNote and OneNote as designed for different stages in research process.
>Evernote builds a personal database; it is a kind of archiving tool. OneNote creates a
>space where information can be combined, analyzed, and elaborated for current
>projects.Microsoft has said that OneNote is not an archival tool, although MS
>doesn’t place a lot of emphasis on this caveat, because that is the way many of their
>customers in fact (mis)use it.

Once OneNote 2007 included the ability to create and maintain multiple notebooks, it was inevitable that users (including me) would archive completed projects and other non-current material. You just file old notebooks and create new ones as you need them.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see archiving functionality built into a future edition of ON.

Jack

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Oct 15, 2007 at 07:51 PM

john oconnor wrote:

>Thank you Stephen. If I start
>with my information already contained in a program like Ndxcards do Evernote or
>OnenNote add any value or would they be redundant.

ndxcards is intended to serve both as an archiver (like Evernote) and a work space (like OneNote). On the other hand, ndxcards is designed to work with Microsoft products. For instance, you can use cards as nodes in Visio diagrams, and I suspect similar things can be done with nxdcards in OneNote. I would say that ndxcards is largely redundant in function with Evernote. Both use key words and allow hierarchy (ndxcards by a separate strong outliner and Evernote by hierarchical keywords. The main thing Evernote gives you in addition is the organization of notes by time. This probably isn’t enough to justify complicating things. It is more likely, I think, that you will find OneNote’s work space a complement to ndxcards, as their approaches to a work space are different.

>Second is Ndxcards the best index
>card software.

I think it is, but it is the only program of this kind I have first hand knowledge of. From what I have heard and read, it is the best choice, because it contains the best outliner and because the alternatives seem abandoned. Users have remarked that they are unresponsive.

Posted by john oconnor
Oct 16, 2007 at 12:26 AM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:

>It is more likely, I think, that you will find OneNote’s work space a
>complement to ndxcards, as their approaches to a work space are different.

Stephen, did you ever get a chance to evaluate Personal Memory Manager. It seems to me that it would also complement Ndxcards.

Also, where would Notemap fit into the following process:

I start with Brainstorm to narrow the issues and to identify the key question.

I then move to Ndxcards to find the raw data for a solution. I rearrange and combine my cards to form a tentative structure.

I then move to Onenote (or Personal Memory Manager?) where I flesh out my cards into larger paragraphs and add secondary data already contained in OneNote.

I then move to Mindgenuis to probe, rearrange it and further flesh-out my structure.

Finally I move to Word

Thank You
John O’Connor

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