Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call

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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 5, 2016 at 01:12 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>My interest in Chromebooks has been revived by the astonishingly good
>Toshiba (with HD screen)

It is a very nice machine but I’d be wary due to the fragile screen problem which Toshiba apparently refuses to service under warranty and blames the user for. Toshiba is in financial trouble and they’re selling the computer division, so dealing with warranty claims is either not their priority or they can’t afford it. See this discussion for more info:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/3xut18/toshiba_warning_buyer_beware_horrible_warranty/

and especially this for all the user reports:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/3xut18/toshiba_warning_buyer_beware_horrible_warranty/cy8fpur

>I appreciate your decision re: Windows 7, but would recommend a second
>look at Windows 10.

Thanks for the suggestion. For now I don’t have much incentive to try Win10, as my new Win7 laptop is running perfectly with all my weird and wonderful old software and I’d hate to mess that up. For light computing I have my Chromebooks…

I’ve been following Win10 user reports and it seems that there are a lot of things that can go wrong with some older software, not to mention Win10 updates randomly deleting software and such.

If you feel like hardware- and OS CRIMP-ing, I’d recommend the Asus Chromebook Flip instead of the Toshiba, as an Android tablet or iPad replacement (for people who are invested in the Google ecosystem), which is highly portable (10”), and could fill a gap between a smartphone and a full-sized laptop.

Posted by fishejim
Jan 5, 2016 at 02:41 AM

Hi Everyone! I’m new to the forum, and I probably won’t post much, but I want to thank you all for the intelligent conversation for the last month. I’ve been an Ultrarecall user on and off for a few years, but in my newly born quest to become more organized, I’m trying out some new things that might click more with me.

I initially found Trello, and then found Workflowy. I used that for a while but after seeing Dr Andus’ tools, I see that there is even more out there. So after loading a bunch of stuff and trying things out briefly, I’ve got my list down to
ConnectedText
Org-mode
and possibly building a custom system with Wordpress/Drupal.

Thanks to jaslar for pointing out dynalist.io, too - I’ll have to do a serious compare to Workflowy! Currently I’m trying ConnectedText for an extended run. I’ve started a little down the path of org-mode, but I want to be sure that I can get where I want to go before I invest the time. The custom system is on my radar and I think I’d like to blog the progress on it when I get around to a serious attempt.

Posted by steveylang
Jan 8, 2016 at 03:17 AM

Interestingly, I am typing this reply on a Toshiba Chromebook 2. I’m a Mac user as well, but found one on EBay for around half the new price.

For writing, the Chromebook is perfect- the screen is great (the HD version of course), battery life is great, and I can carry this thing anywhere- it feels as effortless as carrying a letter-sized notepad somewhere. The keyboard is not great, but good enough where it doesn’t bother me. Workflowy and the various online/offline text editors from the Chrome Store are all very smooth on the Chromebook 2.

Ironically, what it’s not very good IMO at is web browsing. It’s only serviceable, and the lagginess is noticeable when browsing more fully-featured pages. It is pretty good for Youtube and Netflix.

MadaboutDana wrote:
My interest in Chromebooks has been revived by the astonishingly good
>Toshiba (with HD screen), which I spent about half an hour playing with
>in John Lewis and very nearly bought. However, I’m very much a Mac
>person nowadays, so a purchase would have been pure self-indulgence…
>;-)

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jan 8, 2016 at 07:31 AM

These are interesting questions!

What were we CRIMPers been using for 2015? What old favourites are still proving to be solid? And what are we looking forward to?

Used in 2015:
- TheBrain 8
- MindManager Version 15
- OneNote
- Moo.do

Looking forward to:
- TheBrain 9
- Finding the best workflow / integration between TheBrain (core knowledge base) and OneNote (mainly used for meeting notes @ work due to team collaboration and its integration in Outlook)
- Further development of Moo.do
- Deep dive into Tinderbox

A key requirement for me is the availability of an app on Windows and on OSX.

Best,
Dominik

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jan 8, 2016 at 11:53 AM

After working with OneNote for one week I have just decided to remove it from my tool list. OneNote is a great tool but the cross-linking with TheBrain is not very convenient.
Further, I added two new apps to my toolbox:

Used in 2015:
- TheBrain 8
- MindManager Version 15
- Moo.do

Added in 2016:
- Directory Opus Pro (Windows Explorer replacement, much more flexible and strong file renaming capabilities)
- TextPipe Standard (Text extraction, replacement, search etc.)

Looking forward to:
- TheBrain 9
- Further development of Moo.do
- Deep dive into Tinderbox

Best,
Dominik

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