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Posted by DaXiong
Jan 3, 2008 at 02:28 AM
Here’s my list. My time is spent pretty evenly between doing reading/research and creating presentations/speeches.
Firefox
Inspiration
PageFour
Word
Apps I keep coming back to (wanting them to be used), but they just aren’t right for me
Evernote
ndxCards
TreePad (Business)
ZuluPad Pro
ConnectedText
Word
(note: Yeah, MS Word is in both lists, I use it, but its just not right for what I do)
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jan 3, 2008 at 02:57 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote
>A few
>notes of caution on the above:
>
>- Brainstorm: I use it for much more than it has been
>intended for. I have a huge file with my academic notes and the program has began to
>crash on me recently. I need to use something else as my long-term information
>archive; Zoot is probably what I need, but I am still learning.
Creating a database is a supported use of Brainstorm. How big is too big a file? Do the developers agree the file is larger than Brainstorm can handle?
>
>- Opera: it has been my
>favourite browser since version 4.0 (when it was still shareware). To my surprise, I
>recently discovered that it is very processor-hungry and am trying out
>alternatives. I do wonder whether it’s just version 9.2x that has this
>issue.
Version 9.5, in beta, is supposed to address infrastructural issues. The beta isn’t suitable for work use, as it is somewhat unstable and annoyingly incomplete. But it is noticeably faster, at least subjectively the fastest browser on my system. My guess is process usage has improved, but I haven’t looked at it.
>
>Cheers
>alx
>
>
Posted by Jack Crawford
Jan 3, 2008 at 02:58 AM
My list is constrained by a strict SOE at my workplace:-
MS Office 2003 - especially Outlook and Word
MS OneNote 2007 (I managed to convince them to install it, and I’m enjoying the additional benefits)
IE Explorer 6
MindManager 6 for brainstorming and occasional presentations
Some corporate systems
As Alex commented, one of the developments last year was the increasing emphasis on portability. I try to get around the SOE with running these ones from my USB:-
Brainstorm - I would use it more frequently if the product is improved
Page Four - now that I have OneNote running, I’m not using it as much
Spartan Multi clipboard
I’d like to try ConnectedText but the portable version is quite expensive.
I’m still in the market for a good one-panel outliner that will run from a USB.
When I have the luxury of working from my own laptop, I also use:-
PowerDesk
Firefox
Project Kickstart
XMind (testing it out as an alternative to MindManager)
X1
Happy New Year to you all. May 2008 be productive!
Jack
Posted by Gorski
Jan 3, 2008 at 03:51 AM
Information gathering/management, writing, more or less daily:
Firefox, with Plain Text to Link extension
xplorer2
OneNote
Ultra Recall (purchased recently at a discount, rapidly replacing OneNote for most things, though I still like OneNote a lot)
Outlook / Gmail
Slickrun
ClipMate
Windows Live Writer
SnagIt
Less frequently Brainstorm, Notemap and Photoshop
Data cleaning, crunching, programming, for work and pleasure, more or less daily:
UltraEdit
Excel
Komodo
Dreamweaver
MySQL
Access
Less frequently SPSS and R
Still longing for a Zoot that can handle long documents, rich text, images and PDFs better
Posted by GeorgeB
Jan 3, 2008 at 04:09 AM
MS Office 2003: Excel and Word
SwordSearcher5
FireFox
NoteMap
Launchy
AlphaFive
SmartScore
NoteWorthy
I do so much my daily work out of my HP4705 PDA.
TextMaker 2003
PocketThinker
apmemo
NewsBreak
Laridian’s PocketBible
JournalPro
ClearTemp
gB