Re: Newcomer question (Palm outliners)

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Outliners.com Message ID: 1221

Posted by stauffer
2001-12-31 04:21:57

I’ve been using ThoughtManager (http://www.handshigh.com). I’ve tried several others, but keep coming back to this one. It seems to have the best balance between features and ease of use. Editing is the most intuitive, and you can hide or show the checkboxes, so works as both outliner and to-do list manager.

Life Balance (http://www.llamagraphics.com) was an earlier and more exciting purchase. LB is goal-oriented, and will automatically sort your to-dos based on how they relate to the importance of your goals. The amount of work to maintain its data turned out to be more than the value received was worth to me.

BrainForest (http://www.aportis.com) was the first one I bought. It gets a lot of press, but it left me cold. Reminds me of a programmer’s personal tool dropped on the market with no research or further development.

Others I played with but were not happy with because of limitations, in decreasing order of desirability:
* ShadowPlan 1.5.6 (under active development)
* Hi-Note 2.10 (graphic editing & companion PC app)
* ThoughtMill (earlier verson of Thought Manager)
* Arranger (interfaces to Palm built-in apps)
* InfoSelect (Palm version)
* ListMaker (templates)
* ToDo Plus (Palm ToDo plus drawing)
* TaoNote (weird, binary trees only, graphic view)

I’ve found nothing for the Palm yet that approaches the power and usability of MORE on the Mac (R.I.P.), let alone ECCO on the PC (also R.I.P.).

Mike Stauffer

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