Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2011

Posted by Zman
Sep 24, 2011 at 11:36 PM

Info Management Tools:
Using Now:
PersonalBrain 6 - primary tool (I’m writing this note in PB now)
Topicscape Pro - secondary - good for capturing data but a bit cumbersome
Zoot 6 - I have been using since 4. Love it still for archiving email, tracking recent web page surfing (this is a great and somewhat unique feature, RSS feeds, and the Safe
Evernote - for all the random stuff ad for things I want to synch

Backburner:
InfoQube - I used this last year estensively for a project and I liked the way it reminded me of ECCO, but not using it much at the moment
Surfulator - have it and use but not much recently
UltraRecall- ditto

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Thinking and Outlining:
Using Now:?
ConnectedText (just upgraded to 5) - primary tool - reminds me of Transtext
Noteliner -good all around tool I use for todo lists, on the fly notes, quick proto-text workup
Writing Outliner - nice tool that plays well with MS Word 2010 and its new and pretty good embedded outlining capabilities (you can’t escape MS Word for corporate work)
Mindsystems Amode - like it but it has some bothers - but it works well on my Tablet PC for note taking

Back burner:
Everything - you name it, I have probably used it at some point and it may be on my machine now - trying to whittle the “current” list down to just a few

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Email: corporate work and personal email
Current: Oultlook 2010
SharePoint?

Back Burner:
Everdesk - loved it but no current development and lacks full integration

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Information Visualization and Brainstorming:
Current:
Flying Toaster (still on version 1)
Visio (work related Sys Eng and data driven diagraming)
VUE

Backburner:
Lots of stuff - including lots of academic and open source software

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Research collection:
Current:
Citavi

Backburner:
IdeaMason

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Other Necessary Tools
MS Project
MS Excel (the true king of all tools)
MS PowerPoint - the necessary evil
Copernic Desktop and Agent
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Some stuff I’m playing with:
Komodo Edit
Goalscape
SouthBeach modeller

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Mac stuff - I gave my Macbook pro to my wife, but may go back at some point - favorites there were:
NEO outliner (TAO)
Omnigraffle
DevonThink PRO
Tinderbox
Papers