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General brainstorming for Note-taking software
Dormouse:
If you are still having problems, I can send it to you by email.
-PPLandry (November 02, 2007, 02:19 PM)
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Thanks very much for the offer. Eventually wondered if it might be an Opera issue and switched to Firefox and that worked. Means your site is not completely compatible with Opera. At least I did not have to resort to ie.
Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,
(This post did not fare well on my own review, so it is enhanced the next day, going over the full thread ! - Just offering some thoughts from a light notes user, planning a bit more organizing and writing.)
Good thread.
I am always looking for a good note software, with some color and RTF, ala Keynote,
which I use on one machine, in a simple note and tab and search and print manner. The speed and simplicity has always been great and I probably haven't used tons of features, like the virtual links mentioned in the thread.
On freebies, reading above and a little elsewhere, on the second puter I have decided to try Neomem and TreeDBNotes . The discussions were very helpful, and they probably can give me the basic functionality quite nicely.
Usually I avoid the free version of paid products (too crippled) but apparently TreeDB is an exception, lacking mainly the contact manager (which I have in Time & Chaos anyway and not in Keynote) and lacking advanced features, which is fine. Hmm.. there is an ebook feature in the paid version that might be helpful. And since the paid version price is reasonable it is definitely worth the effort.
Apparently Evernote is also ok then as a potential freebie, that could expand to paid. I have used Powermarks (bookmark manager) as a pseudo-Pim and pseudo-Reference master, since its keyword metaphor is so strong. Perhaps, from the thread, this is an EverNote-type strength as well ?
On paid products my interest in most piqued in trying MyBase - and returning for more of Surfulater (which I had not considered in this genre, I would like to find its niche, I do have a reggie) . Also the Zoot possibility (despite the priceyness) should be considered now that they have 32-bit and .rtf. MyInfo might deserve honorable mention if I really have time to play.
I have some moderate writing-organizing planned, and Zoot may work the best for that. Gathering text from places, augmenting with my thoughts and writings, interrelating, and then putting it together for articles of a couple of pages (Bible themes, mainly, especially the "Johannine Comma" is planned). A lot of the source material comes from Google books and similars and web pages.
Other products that had their own cachet or niche potential are AceText and the Wiki-ish products. I also found the NoteCase Open Source / NoteCase Pro products and NotesBrowser to be of some note, in my second or third tier of consideration. (There are about seven tiers :) ).
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Here are four that have been little mentioned on DonationCoder, some of which may deserve space in Roundup #2, with the emphasis pretty much purely on notetakers.
Perhaps an inclusion, at least on the side, of the page :
Notetaking Software Roundup #1
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=2362.625;num_replies=630
My Notes Center (2006)
http://www.mynotescenter.com/
My Notes Keeper (2007) - (mentioned on p. 15)
http://www.mynoteskeeper.com/
Treepad Pro (referenced, but not in the review, the original Keynote alternative)
http://www.treepad.com/treepadplus/
Whizfolders (has been a good program, with solid support from Sanjay in India)
http://whizfolders.com/
However none of these are freeware.
The top two are recent entries and seem sensible so could be sleepers, or could be pablum. Since they are newish it is hard to find a good review or even discussion by snapfiles or fileforum or Cnet users. Whizfolders has lacked a tab methodology, leaving windows open a bit freely, and Treepad should be included in consideration at least for longevity :-) .
Sanjay of Whizfolders very nicely once sent me my lost-in-space registration number after a gap of some years of non-contact. I always consider giving them a better go-try.
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Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
urlwolf:
Here's yey another one:
http://www.debriefnotes.com/
free, $29, and $39 versions.
It's based on the index card idea, seems to be good for bibliography management (not as good as endNote, no interaction with word). Does contacts, reading lists , etc
Outliner seems pretty good.
Othalian:
Hi All,
This may have been mentioned before to sorry if it has. Have a look here http://www.mind-mapping.org/ and feast your eyes on a massive list of note-taking software, knowledge management and information organising software. Some of it is free and some commercial. I hope this helps.
Regards
Othalian :)
superboyac:
Hi All,
This may have been mentioned before to sorry if it has. Have a look here http://www.mind-mapping.org/ and feast your eyes on a massive list of note-taking software, knowledge management and information organising software. Some of it is free and some commercial. I hope this helps.
Regards
Othalian :)
-Othalian (December 02, 2007, 06:12 AM)
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Awesome list! Wow, look at all the options, that's ridiculous. Maybe there's something better than MindManager out there for Mind Maps. Sometimes, I feel like MindManager is lacking certain things, but the only other one I was aware of was Freemind, which is worse (although free).
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