Re: AskSam - is this my best choice: or maybe it is

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Posted by jtschon
2006-01-16 06:28:10

Stephen,

I have not given up on ADM at all. I remain a primitive user of the software. I like it for its ability to manipulate chunks text and gather ideas (I don’t have too many). ADM to me is a super duper outliner.

UR provides me with an opportunity to physically move my files away from the file system for manipulation like a chunk of text in ADM. For my purposes that is huge. Simple back-ups and endless fine tuning of file organization. At present this is being done for data from 1999 to 2005.

NTFS with locate32 and desktop search are used for tracking and managing data within the last 30 to 60 days to the present.

I’m not so much a writer as I am a data gatherer (patents and literature). I’ve always wanted to use my own history and that of my department/group as a source of information in much the same way as one would use USPTO or PubMed. UR is helping me to gather and recombine that information.

For me software is grouped by specialized task. I use Zoot to manage Outlook data. It helps wrangle about 700 emails a month. Zoot has rescued me from lost pst files more than once. I use Ecco/ADM for list management with metadata to wrangle quarterly goals etc. ContentSaver/UR/Onfolio for web hunting and gathering (I am taking a look at Surfulater). Omea Reader for heavy duty RSS feeds. Paperport and Omnipage for scanning paper files to dump into UR. Word and Excel for text generation and numbers because everyone and their brother uses it. Foldershare to transport files without stress. 7Zip for zipping.

I think that that is it. I’d like things to be simpler but for the most part these tools gets things done.

More info than you asked for but I hope it helps.

Jeremy

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