Why do you CRIMP?

Posted by Foolness
Sep 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM

That’s true and I apologize if I made it sound that way.

It’s not so much the name of the site but the culture.

The forum itself is great in that it gets many people talking about these things but as a culture I feel it’s very umm… Ultra Recall/MyBase/etc. Some parts advanced PIM users, some parts about people wanting notetakers mixed with number crunching.

Not that I have find a much better site but it’s very rare here for people to all gather and you would get people who absolutely swore by a program like Compendium even though it has been mentioned. Even Goalscape for example, I could count three threads I think that has mentioned it.

It’s a culture that’s very into outlines except for updating everyone about a new software. DonationCoder does not have the same theme but seeing as I came from DC into here - take that place for example. People may swear by Surfulator, UltraRecall, InfoQube but there’s also a user there who swears by Notezilla.

Now it doesn’t mean people don’t mention Notezilla here but it’s one thing to know about it, it’s another thing for a user to absolutely swear by a desktop sticky notes program. It’s that kind of diversity that I haven’t seen much in a forum yet. Even lately, it’s JB that has put into limelight somewhat Brainstorm where as others don’t quite bring it up. Part of it may be that the most often mentioned ones are probably also the most applicable to everyone but seeing as there are popular programs that don’t often match with the interest of many of the threads here and also taking into account the design of how forums create cultures - I would assume this is really more a product of people here being able to get outliners to work. (For me, on the other hand, it’s gotten to the point that the tree view makes my head hurt if it’s in a sidebar. Even if it’s just a video. I could only mostly work with some pseudo-outline although it’s not like I have a job but as far as my software collection has been, I almost have no tree-list sidebar outliner. At most I have a single pane program that shows a basic outline.)