Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2011

Posted by PIMfan
Sep 24, 2011 at 09:20 PM

The corporate world I work in requires Outlook, so all of my email and calendaring is done in Outlook 2007.

Earlier in the year, I took a stab at trying to put my world into Emacs org mode, but wasn’t able to really get it integrated into my personal information workflow. I have since regained feeling in my left pinky :-)

They keystone event for me this year was getting involved in the Zoot 6 beta/RC. Zoot 6 (aka Zoot XT) brings power and flexibility (albeit with some complexity) that I haven’t had since my Ecco days. I have great admiration for InfoQube, but could never really get my head completely around it.

After using the beta for several months, I recently purchased Zoot 6 and have been using it daily since June for the following activities:

- Free form note-taking
- Web page capture
- Task tracking and to-do lists
- Contact management
- Journaling

So much capability in Zoot 6, and I’m really enjoying the “discovery process” around using/leveraging it - necessary since the documentation isn’t yet ready! Being the CRIMPingly-sick info tool addict I am, I should not be surprised… lol….At this point, it’s looking like my traction with Zoot will be long term.

The other tool in my roll-call is ConnectedText. I haven’t upgraded to v5 yet, and my usage of it is primarily just for knowledge management via it’s basic wiki capabilities. I’m not a coder and just use the most basic of ConnectedText features, but it another application I admire for all the power it offers. It’s another one of those rare tools that I categorize as only limited by the amount of time I am able to spend learning it.

PIMfan