Re: note taking and outlining software for academics (not full PIM)

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Posted by zeoli
2005-06-14 18:10:58

A quick response to your question about an outliner/note-taker.

Unfortunately, at least in my view, most of the so-called outliners we talk about here are hierarchical, free-form databases. That is, they are good at the note-taking aspect, bad at the outlining. The few good outliners probably won’t serve your note-taking needs, though I could be wrong about that.

The two programs I would suggest you investigate are

1. ndxCards (http://www.ndxcards.com). I don’t have a lot of experience with this program, though others who contribute here do. But from what I know about it, it has a significant outlining function and is an excellent note-taking system. I don’t know about its unicode ability. The academic version is $50 U.S.

2. OneNote from Microsoft. This program has a pretty good outlining function, and is a decent note-taking environment. I use it all the time. It costs $100 U.S., but I’ve seen it for $90.

If price were no object, you might be better off using a dual-program system. I’d look at Zoot (http://www.zootsoftware.com) ($100), and NoteMap (http://www.casesoft.com) (was $100, might have gone up some. I’m not sure if NoteMap supports unicode.

Steve Z.

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