Why do you CRIMP?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 21, 2011 at 04:13 AM

jimspoon wrote:
>Aren’t we all trying to use these programs to retain, organize, and recall and as much
>of the information in our lives as we can?

Building on from Dr Andus’ comment here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3155/0/from-mindmaps-to-outlines-on-the-ipad I’d say that, for the last 20 years at least, when confronted with major and/or complex information-related tasks, I’ve often thought “there must be an easier way to do this” and went off to test some software that could perhaps help me to do it more effectively. Secretly I would maintain a hope that the software would also make the task more enjoyable.

So, in brief:

1a. I CRIMP because I have things to do
1b. and hope to do them more effectively
1c. and enjoyably,
2. but remain unsatisfied by many of the solutions I’ve already tried
3. On the road to the ‘perfect’ solution I find that I enjoy the hunt itself (as many others here have pointed out)
4. which means that there’s a danger of sticking to the hunt instead of the work
5. That said, I can think of several instances where without some of these tools I would have been defenseless in the face of major undertakings; i.e. the hunt did pay off
6a. A key factor in getting work done is deciding that a tool is ‘good enough’ to actually start using it
6b. Otherwise… (back to point 2.)