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Your current PIM software portfolio - November 2008 Poll
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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Nov 13, 2008 at 04:34 AM
Hello group,
I wondering what tools you are using today to manage the information stream during a working day due the the current development in the PIM and general software market.
Here is my list:
1. PersonalBrain Professional v4.5 (and v5 soon), the *current* workhorse, replaced UR in June this year.
2. MindManager 7 Professional (and v8 probably next year) a perfect extension to PB, especially for writing
3. Notepad++ (free, a fine notepad replacement, http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)
4. UltimaCalc, a replacement for the calculator in Windows (http://www.ultimacalc.com/)
Other tools:
- MS Office (yeah, it’s boring)
- Quantrix Modeler Professional (Interesting Excel replacement, it’s worth a try - http://www.quantrix.com/ )
- Eclipse (for Java development)
- Gmail
- IE, FF, Chrome
On the radar:
- SQLNotes
- Zoot
Dominik
Posted by Cassius
Nov 13, 2008 at 06:46 AM
Was a workaholic. Now a retired bum.
Currently, more or less in order of use:
myBase+WebCollect
Jot Plus
Excalibur (a free RPN calculator - math,stat,business,...-really good)
FastStone Capture (screen capture)
Search GT (really fast file-but not text-search)
GridinSoft Notepad
Inspiration
GrandView
+
MS Word
MS Excel
—c
Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Nov 13, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Hello
I have been reading this forum for some time now, but this is the first time I have posted. In response to Dominik’s query about tools for managing the daily information stream, my main tools are:
1. Blackwell Idealist v.3: an ancient text database I have been using since before Win95. It is lightning fast, allows me to define fields on the fly, and is completely stable. At the moment, my main database contains nearly 30,000 records (a mixture of references, notes and quotations). I have tried many alternatives over the years, but sooner or later I always return to Idealist.
2. For longer pieces of text, I have recently started working with ConnectedText. So far I am very pleased with it.
3. I have been a keen mindmapper for decades. While I still scribble most of my mind maps on odd pieces of paper, I do make some use of MindManager (but I am still working quite happily with version 4).
4. I use TimeTo for task management.
Other tools:
Microsoft Word (not my word processor of choice, but virtually all my clients use it)
TeXnicCenter with MikTex (for the handful of clients who work with LaTeX rather than Word)
Yours
Lawrence
Posted by Graham Rhind
Nov 13, 2008 at 10:55 AM
My information management tools are largely unchanged recently:
- OneNote for archiving and screen/webpage capture
- Personal Brain Pro for archiving and for building my family tree (the webpages produced this way never cease to produce an amazed response from my (distant) relatives!)
- PaperPort as a scan manager
- Zoot as a task manager and structured data repository
- Sciral Consistency for task management
- Outlook for e-mails and calendar
- Tasktop for browsing
- Whizfolders for authoring
- Flying Logic for planning/brain storming
Other programs:
- Visual Foxpro
- MS Office
- Namo Webeditor
- Opera
On the radar:
- SQLNotes/InfoQube, but I can’t face learning a “UR clone” and shifting my data all over again at the moment ... I will look at it more closely when the documentation is ready.
Graham
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 13, 2008 at 02:22 PM
My information management usage is complicated by the fact that I use a PC at work and a MacBook for personal purposes. So here goes:
At Work (PC/Windows)
Programs I Use Daily
- Zoot. For grabbing various information on the fly. Also for organizing specific database-type information (i.e. purchases).
- OneNote. For project-related data, and information that does not “fit” into Zoot (i.e. PDFs, text that needs formatting).
- Adobe Acrobat
Programs I Use Weekly
- EccoPro. Have begun to use EccoPro again as a project planner and task manager.
- Debrief. Daily work journal. Can also be used as a project planner and task manager, but I’m not using it that way at the moment.
- Brainstorm. When I need to capture ideas quickly, nothing beats Brainstorm.
- WikidPad. Which I use for creating a catalog of the books sold by my employer.
At Home (Mac OS)
- Bento. Handles my straight forward database type information.
- Curio. Can be used for almost anything, but mostly I use it for brainstorming and project planning.
- Journler. My personal journal and note keeper.
- OmniOutliner. When I need an outliner… like now for instance.
- Yojimbo. Where I store passwords, registration numbers and other discrete information.
Steve Z.