Easy enough to miss - it was buried in a recent thread about MindManager 8.

See www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/882


Jack


Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Hi Jack,
>
>What was the latest Brainstorm
announcement? I seem to have fallen out of
>the Brainstorm loop, never to be allowed
to return.

Stephen,

The announcement about Brainstorm is that it looks like it is
going to be acquired by an American, who we are hoping will provide further and more
rapid development.

Steve Z.

Nothing very exciting, I'm afraid:

Zoot32 - couldn't imagine working without it
Outlook 2003 - but looking for something less resource-intensive (maybe Zoot v6 will provide this)
Word 2003 - inevitable for collaborations
Notetab Pro - for general drafting (but experimenting with ConnectedText; see also Zoot v6))
Grandview (DOS) - still the best (but must give Maxthink (WIN) a proper workout)
dtSearch - expensive, but excellent
Biblioscape - for references (but really unsure about its value - probably moving to Zoot or ConnectedText for handling references and doing formatting by hand)
Firefox v3 - so agile, so many useful add-ons

Derek

My main work applications:

Planning:
Calendarscope, Bonsai, Notezilla - syncs between laptop and Palm Tungsten E2

Gathering, reading, noting articles:
RssOwl - RSS reader
Firefox 3 with Scrapbook
isilo - ebook reader for the Palm

Longer Notes:
ConnectedText
Zoot

Writing up:
MindManager 6
MS Word - just to export Mindmanager and (occasional) Notemap work
OpenOffice 3
Faststone editor - for screen grabs
Faststone viewer

Search:
DTSearch
Everything - for pix and MP3 interviews

Ike

Hello Everyone!

Assuming this message gets by the moderator (this is my first post), I'd like to throw in a couple thoughts:

1. Thanks to all for creating such a great resource! To be honest, I'm quite overwhelmed by it all, but wouldn't have it any other way. There are so many options here that I've forced myself to return to paper to ensure that I first know the concepts and contexts that are most important to my PIM style. Then (at least in theory) I'll be a better consumer...

2. Is anyone following/interested in MIT's Jourknow project? Forgive me if this has already been discussed somewhere else. (I've skimmed a couple bits about Haystack, which is somehow related to it, but nothing on Journknow...) Anyway, I mention it because their design philosophy of "information scraps" very much resonates with what I feel an effective and efficient PIM should be. I'd state it here, but I'm running a little short on time with holiday preparation to give it justice. (Basically, ubiquitous capture and effective recall, but in a much more flexible way than what I've seen so far in programs like Ultra Recall.)

Journknow website
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jourknow/

Supporting research paper
http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/papers/TOIS-final-with-refs.pdf

Happy outlining!

Their Website:
"Jourknow is currently undergoing rapid development, and as such no stable releases exist yet. Development code is available upon request."
Manfred

Bob Mackreth wrote:

For writing and composition, I've pretty
much given up on NoteMap (moment of silence here) and shifted to Page Four. My
preference is for a one-pane outliner here, but you can't have everything you want in
this life. Wish it were a little simpler to manage and move pages within the Page Four
outline tree, but the program serves my needs adequately if not perfectly.

Bob, I have a question regarding Page Four; is there any way to export one's work to another word processor in .doc, .rtf or any other format? From what I can see, there's import from such formats, but what is called 'export' seems to be just a way to get one's Page Four files from a PC to another.

TIA
alx

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

Bob, I have a question
regarding Page Four; is there any way to export one's work to another word processor in
.doc, .rtf or any other format? From what I can see, there's import from such formats,
but what is called 'export' seems to be just a way to get one's Page Four files from a PC to
another.

TIA
alx

PageFour's native format is RTF, so there's no problem with editing the files elsewhere. Yes, Page Four's export feature is just an easy way to make a copy of the notebooks.

If I wanted to finish a set of files off in Word and then create a single document I would use Chapter by Chapter (http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.berthet/cbc/index.html Indeed if you already have Word, Chapter by Chapter, which is free, may be a good alternative to PageFour.

JohnK wrote:

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Bob, I have a question
>regarding Page Four; is there
any way to export one's work to another word processor in
>.doc, .rtf or any other
format? From what I can see, there's import from such formats,
>but what is called
'export' seems to be just a way to get one's Page Four files from a PC to

>another.
>
>TIA
>alx

PageFour's native format is RTF, so there's no problem
with editing the files elsewhere. Yes, Page Four's export feature is just an easy way
to make a copy of the notebooks.

That's correct. Rather than creating a database, PageFour pretty much uses the Windows filing system. "Pages" are individual RTF files, and "folders" are exactly that.

John, Bob, many thanks for the quick response. I see that there's not much danger of getting trapped inside a non-generic format which is a good thing.

I will also try Chapter by Chapter because it offers a very sensible and flexible approach. Rather than having to learn a new word processor it seems to complement Word in the structured writing where it lags behind.

alx

Hi,

Alexander, I'd be happy to get your feedback on CbC.
Let me know if you have any problem or suggestion.
I'm always eager to see how other writers use my software, and how it can be improved.

Sebastien

In the Linux world:

Jpilot for day to day task management
Notecase Pro for larger projects, outlining, textbases, notes
Freemind for mindmapping, visual brainstorming
Openoffice for final writing
Thunderbird for email

The software I use for "information processing" broadly conceived:

Everyday (absolutely rely on):
ConnectedText (for notes and "zero drafts")
AutoHotKey (for automation)
Firefox (Internet)
Thunderbird (Mail)
MS-Word 2002 and "Chapter by Chapter" (for more polished drafts and submissions)
Visual Thesaurus 3 (for inspiration)
Agenda at Once (for scheduling and todo list)
Syncback (for backup and synchronization)
True-Crypt (Encryption of USB drives)

Less frequently:
Brainstorm (structuring)
NoteTab Pro (Text files)
TkOutline (outlining)
MindManger 2002 (Mind maps)
7-Zip (Compression)

The most important one for me is ConnectedText (just as last year).