Amish Computing (forked from:Question: What software is absolutely essential to you)

Posted by JasonE
Aug 12, 2011 at 07:51 PM

DaXiong wrote:

“I keep toying with the idea of converting everything to txt file and being done with the quest for the holy outliner (movie rights to follow)”

I lived like this for a few month. I did absolutely everything I could in .txt files, even if I had to shoe-horn the task into that paradigm. I highly recommend it because you learn a lot. It became clear to me why some productivity applications had some of the features that they did. You learn how to use productivity software better by spending some time with amish computing.

I have also done the same thing at different times with OneNote, Treesheets, and Mathematica. As you can imagine, l learned a lot about those applications doing so.

JasonE

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