Why do you CRIMP?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 23, 2011 at 05:33 PM

Foolness,

I guess most of us here have our personal favourite applications—perhaps because our brains work a bit like their respective developers- but I have yet to find someone who swears by any tool. I think if any of us was such a fan, they would not be going around CRIMPing :-)

I don’t think that most of us are stuck with the usual contemporary UltraRecalls and the like. In the contrary, I find great diversity, and I think you will too, if you go back a couple of years in the posts.

To take one example, Brainstorm has been my own beloved tool for many years; I’m surprised myself about how much I’ve written about it here. However, towards the end of its development under its original ownership, the transition to the new Microsoft libraries broke its handling of non-latin characters. As a result, Brainstorm became unusable for about 40% of my work.

It is quite reasonable to discuss UltraRecalls and the like, because they are most recently updated. But you will find people who trust their valuable info in many different tools, such as Echo, InfoQube, TreeSheets, Zoot, Connected Text, Cintanotes and several others, quite a few of which are anything but typical outliners. Perhaps there are not so many here behind each of those, but then again, there are not so many of us here posting.

In fact, I am enthused by the several people who have followed the forum and have recently began contributing new perspectives. More, I say!