Stephen Zeoli
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Best software for emergent order
10/6/2007
This is exactly where Zoot excels. While I agree with Stephen that Brainstorm is unsurpassed in many of its overall functioning as a brain storming application and for organizing thoughts, to me Zoot ...
Best writing software...
9/26/2007
Stephen,
You are right that SNC's outlining function is not as powerful as ndxCards, but I did want to correct one thing you mention. You can nest "card decks" within card decks, so you can create a ...
Natura Bansai Outliner
9/26/2007
Well, you are probably right, but I think of both these applications a bit differently than other hierarchical PIMs because the emphasis with Bonsai and ListPro is on the outline (or list), not on the...
Best writing software...
9/25/2007
Hi, all.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot happening in the world of outliners/PIMs this summer, so I thought it might be a good time to take a broader look at the software that's already out ther...
Natura Bansai Outliner
9/25/2007
I agree with you that most of the software we discuss are not true outliners, but are hierarchical information managers.
As for Bonsai, it does seem like a nice piece of software, but I am not so cer...
Word template outliner?
9/11/2007
If you're looking for a more traditional single-pane outliner, you could try TKoutline (http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/wiki/). It is a single executable file so runs fine from a USB drive. Outlines ...
Is it worth it?
9/7/2007
Stephen,
It sounds as if you have convinced yourself to invest the money in getting a license for MindGenius... Sounds like the wise thing to do since you rely heavily on mind mappers. Like others, I...
Zoot Grows on You
9/6/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Has Zoot's latest beta incarnation now allow unlimited page size or not?
The answer is no. All the old limitations seem to be maintained in the 32-bit beta, but I think...
There is a nice little one-pane outliner for Windows called TKOutline:
http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/wiki/
It is a simple, but useful little outliner without any bells and whistles. Development s...
I think there is a functional difference between a note and folding a header to a single line, which is this: If you have multi-line headers, having a separate note allows you to hide the note while c...
I and others touched on this earlier, but I think it bears repeating with emphasis, and it also relates to focusing on specific material in the outline or seeing the material in its full context. That...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>The "correct" answer was ndx Cards.
Stephen,
I think you're right that ndxCards might be the closes thing to the Holy Grail -- that is, if you use your definition of wh...
sracer wrote:
>The idea here is that an
>outline is the "skeleton" of a document and that once the meat is on the bones, the
>skeleton is still there, but no longer visible.
I agree completely ...
I suspect if we were to poll everyone on this forum, we'd get a lot of different answers as to what constitutes the Holy Grail of outliners. My definition is based on functionality. For me the Holy Gr...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>There is to my knowledge only a single Holy Grail pim available today, but I
>would be surprised if a single reader could guess my referent. It has attracted less
>much ...
New version of ListPro
8/27/2007
Mark,
Thank you for the heads up on the new version of ListPro. I love this program, though I use it for a limited purpose now. I initially got it to run on my Pocket PC -- which I haven't used in ye...
What's so great about Zoot?
8/26/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>What do you think causes features' stealthiness? Or Zoot's features in particular to
>be stealthy? Can Zoot be characterized as a program with great features but a terri...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/24/2007
Well, I just broke down and bought the Plus version of Jarte -- had to try the outlining. And, I'm glad to say that it works really well. It isn't quite fully functional in the Beta version, but here ...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/24/2007
Keep your eye on Jarte Plus 3.0. It is in beta release now. It is not a sophisticated wordprocessor -- no footnotes for instance. But it has a lot of features for a simple RTF editor, including tables...
Brainstorm development
8/24/2007
I believe they are getting ready to release a new edition which has some nice new features, including multiple marking of items. Stay tuned.
Steve Z.
Zoot Grows on You
8/21/2007
I usually don't need RTF for anything as complex as formulas or even tables -- though tables can be quite useful. Where RTF would be nice in Zoot, I believe, is for highlighting and bulleting text.
N...
Zoot Grows on You
8/21/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I could put this into Zoot, but the item pane in
>Zoot is tabular and this (as far as I know) cannot be changed - UltraRecall allows item
>data-entry to occur in a form, which...
CRIMP Alert! - PowerOutlines
8/17/2007
Hi, all,
I just stumbled across this somewhat new tree-based free form database. It's called PowerOutlines. It is from the developer of the odd, but interesting Insight.
http://www.dataomega.com/Pow...
Zoot Questions
8/11/2007
Daly,
The beauty of Zoot is it doesn't really matter... just start saving entries in one database and then figure out how you want to organize it as you go! The only thing to think about ahead of tim...
Graham,
I concur with your conclusions about Lightning. The best thing about it is the notes editor, which is quite robust for a tree-based PIM. Other than that, however, Lightning seems a sad and la...