Re: Opinions on Treepad, ShadowPlan? New user.

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Posted by zeoli
2003-10-31 14:01:19

I’ll add my two cents to this topic, though I’ll probably not enlighten you any. I don’t know anything about ShadowPlan, although I always thought it was a Palm handheld outliner with a desktop appliance. Treepad is okay, but not spectacular, in my opinion.

If you don’t need text formatting, you should check out Zoot (http://www.zootsoftware.com), as it allows you to assign an item to any number of categories. Zoot also provides a myriad number of other ways to organize and find your information on the fly. It is almost impossibly flexible. Unfortunately, it only deals with plain text, though it provides linking capabilities to original documents.

Steve Cohen (one of our regular voices on outliners.com) recommends Jot+ (http://www.kingstairs.com), and having looked at it a few times, I’d agree that it is a nice outliner with lots of features—a better choice, I think, than Treepad.

The sorry fact is that each choice has its weaknesses. Someday, someone will create the perfect outlining tool. I’m not holding my breath.

Steve Z.

Hubbardton, Vermont

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