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Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM
It looks interesting, however the last Change History notation on the beta is a year ago. The Chrome extension was last updated in late 2013. I wonder why updates stopped and the app never came out of beta.
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CardDesk. I
>wonder if anyone else here has looked at it?
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 23, 2015 at 04:22 PM
Spoken like a true CRIMPer, Hugh!
Hugh wrote:
>on ninety seconds’ acquaintance, CardDesk looks worth exploring.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 24, 2015 at 12:11 AM
CardDesk looks interesting - certainly the GUI aesthetic is better than Evernote’s and added functionality is appealing.
Daly
MadaboutDana wrote:
Spoken like a true CRIMPer, Hugh!
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>Hugh wrote:
>>on ninety seconds’ acquaintance, CardDesk looks worth exploring.
Posted by Ken
Feb 25, 2015 at 05:06 PM
I have thought about this questions since it posted, and the more I think about it, the more I realize how much things have changed since mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and the “cloud” have become more commonplace. Prior to that, I would have said that Ecco and Pimlico’s DateBk were my favorite pieces of software. They were enjoyable to use, and more importantly they served me quite well. You would think that with the advent of mobile devices, that things would get better, but really it seems like they are somewhat better, and somewhat worse. Better in that I can now use apps on the web, my computer, or on the mobile device of my choice. Very convenient.
But, the rate of change for these programs/apps is a bit bewildering at times. And, the amount of data flowing through all of our devices seems to have increased radically, such that it is hard to sometimes separate the signal from the noise. There are many good task managers and outliners to help us with our data, but shoving more and more data into them does not seem to help me move forward with what I need to accomplish, despite all of their filtering/tagging features. Sometimes a piece of paper is my best friend, as it does not share its function with anything else, nor does stuff find its way onto the paper without my writing it.
I am swamped at work and at home right now, and I am sitting and staring at a long list of tasks in Asana, and I cannot help but feel that somewhere in that list is something that has been forgotten because it takes time to keep rescanning the list for what should be marked priority. I cannot really blame the software makers for the fact that many of us are running way beyond our bandwidth, but I am not certain if what they are promising is a full solution to our problems, but rather just one tool in the solution toolkit. I am tempted to dedicate one device to just handling all of my productivity needs, but the last thing that I need is to manage another electronic device. So, I still seem to keep a small piece of paper with me so I can list what is needing immediate attention. I do not fully understand why I revert to scraps of paper for small lists when I have all of the software in the world at my disposal, but I guess there is some comfort in the fact that a newer version is probably not going to be released tomorrow that will require me to learn a whole new set of commands and unlabeled icons. How I wish I could truly fall in love again with some really great software.
—Ken
Posted by steveylang
Feb 27, 2015 at 08:33 PM
I really enjoy using The Hit List, both for task management and for note-taking/general outlining.
I find it effortless to use with the keyboard commands (mainly the WASD cluster for moving items, and ‘T’ for essentially starring an item and putting it in the Today list). The format of the list page makes it feel more like an outliner, and less than a spreadsheet (subtasks are just nested tasks), as does the ability to have ‘outlines of outlines’ (organizing lists into folders).
The (now free) sync service is really fast, all that is missing is an iPad version.
I like Simplenote a lot, although I don’t know that I would say I really enjoy using it. I enjoy the utility of it it.