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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Last post by superboyac on December 28, 2006, 10:57 AM »arasu, good post! I think I understand better what ndxcards is all about, and it's very cool indeed. I'll give a summary here for others, and you can correct me if I don't get it right:
In ndxcards, the notes are input in on a completely independant basis. That is, they don't go into a tree or any kind of structure at all. Just like real post-its, each one is separate from the other. Then, if you want, you can assign keywords and categories to the notes which can help for organizing later, but you don't have to. If you do want to make a tree or some heirarchy or outline later, you can start doing it, and just take the notes that are available and organize them in a way to make an outline or whatever. You can have as many different outlines as you want. Similar to how Surfulater can have a couple of different ways to look at the same set of notes, but ndxcards is much more flexible. Basically, you dump all your notes without much thought into the program, and if you want to add some structure to it later, you can do that.
I wish I could play around with it a little more, but my trial expired. I really wish these companies would donate me licenses for their notetakers like a few here have, because comparing all of these notetakers is a long process. Every few months, I need to go back and explore a few features here and there.
In ndxcards, the notes are input in on a completely independant basis. That is, they don't go into a tree or any kind of structure at all. Just like real post-its, each one is separate from the other. Then, if you want, you can assign keywords and categories to the notes which can help for organizing later, but you don't have to. If you do want to make a tree or some heirarchy or outline later, you can start doing it, and just take the notes that are available and organize them in a way to make an outline or whatever. You can have as many different outlines as you want. Similar to how Surfulater can have a couple of different ways to look at the same set of notes, but ndxcards is much more flexible. Basically, you dump all your notes without much thought into the program, and if you want to add some structure to it later, you can do that.
I wish I could play around with it a little more, but my trial expired. I really wish these companies would donate me licenses for their notetakers like a few here have, because comparing all of these notetakers is a long process. Every few months, I need to go back and explore a few features here and there.
