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Ideaweaver 9/2/2008

I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, and it's a couple of years since I tried it. But PageFour and Liquid Story Binder on Windows and Scrivener, Storyist and StoryMill on the Mac - to quote just fi...

All Task Information in One Place 8/26/2008

Alternatively, Ready-Set-Do! (http://homepage.mac.com/toddvasquez/Ready-Set-Do!/Personal93.html) - an interesting "application" of GTD principles and rules (that is not in itself a software applicatio...

Curio 5.0 8/18/2008

But I like the coloured ovals... ;) More to the point, so might others to whom I try to communicate concepts and ideas. (Whether they, or I, like them enough for me to spend, say, US $249 on NovaMind ...

Curio 5.0 8/18/2008

Not excited as such, but I do think they can be a useful tool. Two reasons. One, with many mind-map programmes but not all, initially you can just splat the screen with ideas, before you start drawin...

Curio 5.0 8/18/2008

Beat me to it, Steve! I endorse all you've written. In the period of little over a year since I bought my MacBook, Curio has come a long way. By the nature of things, some of the tools it's provided ...

List of Mac OSX outliners and information managers 7/29/2008

And Boswell: http://www.boswell.com/ (which should probably go under "Other" - Niftybox is a "Straight Notes Manager"). H

List of Mac OSX outliners and information managers 7/29/2008

Thanks, Steve. Niftybox: http://www.nifty-box.com/ If you're including Scrivener and Jer's, it's quite hard not to also include Ulysses, Nisus, Mellel, CopyWrite, Storyist and StoryMill. H

Writing And Outliners 6/28/2008

Whatever works for you, is what I say. For me, an outliner has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to save time. In both respects dan lists above (info-management and laying out the bones) ...

Up-to-date outliner rating matrix? 6/26/2008

FWIW, here's another list - more than a year old, arguably incomplete and not a matrix: http://www.psychinnovations.com/psych/node/37 H

Up-to-date outliner rating matrix? 6/26/2008

David Dunham wrote: >Argh, never know how to format stuff with different forum software. How about this for >the URL: http://www.pure-mac.com/pims.html Big mistake! Shouldn't have looked at that...

Up-to-date outliner rating matrix? 6/26/2008

David, I don't know of an up-to-date matrix of the kind you're seeking. About 18 months ago I searched for almost the tool you're looking for (not quite - I also wanted a reliable drafter), and only...

Opinions On TheBrain? 6/26/2008

I don't think you're flogging a dead horse at all, Manfred. All the points you make are good. I was simply trying to stack up the best "devil's advocate" case for PB that I could think of... (And I'd ...

Opinions On TheBrain? 6/26/2008

Manfred wrote: >I have looked at The Brain in the past, and partly as a result of the activity here, I >downloaded a new trial and put it through the paces. > >The result of this is not so much >...

Opinions On TheBrain? 6/25/2008

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Anyone using the Mac version of Personal Brain? Or is anyone aware of any functional or >performance differences between the Mac and PC versions? > >Thanks! > >Steve Z. To ...

Opinions On TheBrain? 6/25/2008

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Anyone using the Mac version of Personal Brain? Or is anyone aware of any functional or >performance differences between the Mac and PC versions? > >Thanks! > >Steve Z. Ste...

Watership Planner 6/23/2008

Graham - thanks! dan - doh! I'd forgotten TaskLine despite owning a licence for it several years ago. In the end, although it was competent, I abandoned it because it refused to work with some other ...

Watership Planner 6/22/2008

This looks quite interesting - a third Windows dynamic scheduler to add to Above&Beyond and Time To, more developed than the former and better-looking, less complex and more informative perhaps than t...

Gardening with an Outliner... 6/13/2008

For amusement, not as a demonstration of Tinderbox's power: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/forum//YaBB.pl?num=1213163609

Question for the lawyers 6/12/2008

Veering somewhat OT: Steve, agree with almost all you've written above, particularly the primacy of Ecco Pro. However... I would also add Tinderbox to your Mac list. Yes, expensive, complex, no colum...

Parallels on sales... 6/10/2008

Thanks, Steve. I took advantage of the tip.

MacBook experience... 6/1/2008

Update from Devon Technologies on progress towards DevonThink v 2.0 (including multiple databases): http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=6302 H

MacBook experience... 5/23/2008

Sorry to hear this, Steve. Previous experience seems to have been that SN increases in stability as its versions ascend the decimal points, then takes a step backwards when they hit a round number. Ma...

Learning How To Use IdeaMason 5/23/2008

Gary Have you contacted the developers? In my quest to find a decent drafting programme, I spent some time with IM after its first major upgrade. The application forum was canned about then because o...

102 GTD Tools... 5/8/2008

It struck me that there are a number of omissions (especially amongst tools like Zoot not originally devised for GTD, but still appropriate) - that it's a list that's more interesting in terms of orde...

102 GTD Tools... 5/7/2008

Very slightly overlapping with Daly's market overview, a list. And yes, there are 102 of them... http://www.priacta.com/Articles/Comparison_of_GTD_Software.php

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