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Posted by nathanb
May 31, 2018 at 04:49 AM
Any thoughts about this one? https://www.sortingthoughts.de/
Surprised I’ve never heard of it since it seems to closely fit what I’ve been looking for.
Classic primary hierarchy and sense-of-place similar to onenote. Alternate structure via tags (though they appear to not nest). And be still my heart it shows ‘incoming links’! Even without the task/project stuff this is already looking neato. I’ll start my trial run tomorrow! Unless I run across another shiny thing that makes me forget this one.
Posted by satis
May 31, 2018 at 12:35 PM
It’s been out for a loong time, at least 7 years. With the exception of the GANTT chart view(!) it closely resembles DEVONthink, EagleFiler and Evernote. I never saw enough in it to want to try it on my Mac, especially after spending many years in DEVONthink and then EagleFiler.
The slightly clunky (last time I checked) iOS companion app is free in the App Store.
Posted by nathanb
May 31, 2018 at 10:12 PM
satis wrote:
It’s been out for a loong time, at least 7 years. With the exception of
>the GANTT chart view(!) it closely resembles DEVONthink, EagleFiler and
>Evernote. I never saw enough in it to want to try it on my Mac,
>especially after spending many years in DEVONthink and then EagleFiler.
>
>The slightly clunky (last time I checked) iOS companion app is free in
>the App Store.
Thank you for the background info! I’m in a Windows world and have been envious of Devonthink…and many others, for a long time. A little disappointing that this one isn’t available on Android, but very few robust info managers even have a mobile sync option anyway. EagleFiler rings a very faint bell to me, will have to look it up to refresh my memory.
Posted by nathanb
May 31, 2018 at 10:18 PM
satis wrote:
> I never saw enough in it to want to try it on my Mac,
>especially after spending many years in DEVONthink and then EagleFiler.
>
You don’t value the ‘incoming links’ being shown? That’s become one of my biggest wants. Now that I’m looking closely for them, I’m finding it to be a rare feature.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 6, 2018 at 04:56 PM
Just been sniffing again at Sorting Thoughts 2.0.
Well, what an interesting app. A classic two-pane outliner, but with some neat extras, including projects, tasks, subtasks, subtasks of subtasks and - for those who care for such things - starting dates and GANTT charts.
It’s a very easy app to underestimate, because the interface is very minimalist. But the functions are really rather clever. And yes, it does list incoming/outgoing links, support versioning, and sync with iOS apps. It also runs on Windows as well as macOS.
Cheers,
Bill