I had actually looked at a tool that used a more tree-like structure and I am debating if that is going to be useful for my processes. I had looked at myBase before but wasn't really drawn to it. While I do rely on a tree style architecture for things like email, I found the process cumbersome to add things in/out of this database.
I am really interested in thoughts on how people use this software so I can look at new ways to think about it. I have had a lot of random thoughts that I need to somehow relate so I can see where the major focus areas are in an attempt to focus my research efforts on my thesis (and later, hopefully, my dissertation). I will check out MyInfo none-the-less as perhaps I may be able to go back to that style of tracking.
Thanks!
-Josh
Dear Josh,
The following is just a detailed note from a paid Pro user with no agenda/conflict of interest.
But One of the things I thought MyInfo could be perfect at is research!
In a nutshell, you start developing topics like this:
WhyJoshRules
He is so smart, and he's asking for my help! OhMyGawd!
He's smarter than I am, so he's researching some cool topic!
Topic1-Whatever you are researching
Control-N to add a new subnode.
Yay new subnode!
Yay new subnode!
Yay new subnode!
Yay new subnode!
Oh Look this Subnode got important so control-shift-left arrow to make it Important and move it up later!
Yay new subnode!
Footnotes
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And then you roll them all up when you work on the real project. Roll them back down to do x to them.
It's the "only winner" of a medium survey I did about five years ago now. I don't know what MyBase is, and I want to stay away of exactly why it may or may not fit you. For now just suppose the tree idea fits, then try the free version of MyInfo. (I bought the Pro version mostly for a Publishing Export feature.)
Then fair enough, a couple of other people decided it was not quite for them, but then that at least gets to specifics, and if there's just one niggling thing, you might hafve a chance at the dev adding it. (A bit rare, but it happens.)