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Posted by Jariell
Dec 31, 2014 at 01:16 AM
CollectedThought is a desktop, Windows based PIM, information management software. Allows to organize one’s desktop, such as bookmarks, files & documents, web clippings and note snippits of information, all on an infinitely zoomable CAD based desktop interface… desktops can be hyperlinked to one another. Can be used to create a sort of presentation of information with links from page to page using the above - bookmarks, clippings, snippits of written information, photos, and documents and files which can be embedded I believe, or linked to on the desktop from within the application. using a ‘CAD’ - ‘Computer Aided Design’ foundation / metaphor, on which the program is built from and based on in principle, with regard to the interface.
I don’t want to go into details describing it any more as it has been some time since I have tried it, the trial, that is. I just want to include it here for others to look at and possibly talk and elaborate a bit more with their reviews, views and opinion.
It is built by Evolution Computing, the makers of CAD software. The have been developing CAD software for some 20 or more so years.
Please Note, I am not in any way endorsing or afiliated with them, these are my own views… Jariell A. Perlman
Posted by PIMfan
Dec 31, 2014 at 03:48 AM
Looks interesting, but at $195 per copy, I don’t know that the Windows market will take kindly to that type of pricing. The Mac world seems to be a bit different, as Tinderbox 6 costs $249 and has a notable following. But I would place Tinderbox in a league of it’s own. Perhaps it can leverage it’s integration with AutoCAD as a price-worthy feature…..
Posted by Lucas
Dec 31, 2014 at 07:17 AM
The download page has a Mac version too:
https://fastcad.com/fastnote/ctdownload.html
I just installed it.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Dec 31, 2014 at 09:27 AM
Lucas wrote:
The download page has a Mac version too:
https://fastcad.com/fastnote/ctdownload.html
I just installed it.
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@Lucas: Could you post your experiences of the software, in this thread please? I would be very interested to read of them, and I suspect other readers on this forum would as well..
I was about to download CT (Collected Thought) as it looked very good, but then, looking through the features listed, I saw that it apparently seems to do no more (and quite a lot less) than MS OneNote - which I already have, having purchased it together with MS Office for US$10.00 all up.
Still, I always saw MS OneNote as a staging-post on a longer journey to PIM Nirvana, so CT might still be of some use.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 31, 2014 at 01:17 PM
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>it apparently
>seems to do no more (and quite a lot less) than MS OneNote
I was also reminded of OneNote, with SmartDraw thrown in. As well as of another CT… It looks like a visual version of a desktop wiki, except you drop things into containers, rather than linked wiki pages (ConnectedText even has such a calendar feature—as featured in the video—where the dates are linked to a page you can use as a container). TheBrain also comes to mind.
The big question is how an app like this one scales up (i.e. how easy it is to use once you have hundreds or thousands of containers etc.). Another one is how to find what you’re looking for easily and quickly and how to discover connections between data serendipitously. And how to export your data if you decide to switch to something else down the line…
Also, as it seems to be a composite of various tools (whiteboard, screen capture, flow chart mapping etc.), will there be a benefit to using these internal tools, rather than external specialist tools that probably have more features and are updated more frequently? E.g. there was Mindsystems Amode V2 once, which also combined a calendar, a Gantt chart, and a concept mapper, among other things, but the concept mapper never really matched other free but specialist apps like VUE.
Anyway, it’s certainly does look like an interesting piece of software. It would be good to pinpoint though what exactly justifies that price tag.