Team solutions #1: Text development

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 23, 2011 at 07:00 PM

@ Steve: I’m rather ashamed to say that I have worked very little with Onenote as a personal tool. As a team solution it may be ideal; I had read some time ago here about the collaboration features of Onenote 2010, but I think at the time it was still in beta. I will definitely look at it. My only concern is needing to get everyone to upgrade to Office 2010 (I myself am still in 2007 in my main PC and use 2003 in other machines; apart for the price tag, I confess I never quite got used to the ribbon). It may be worth it though, especially with the 25 Gbytes available to MS Live users.

@JB: good idea; the nice thing about BrainstormUFO* exporting/importing tab-indented text is that it can be read by a multitude of applications, that can then translate it to further formats. I usually import it to TreeSheets or a mind mapper to get an overview. From Freemind or Mind Manager in particular I can get it to a hosted service like MindMeister or Mind42 (my personal preference), thereby providing editing ability to my collaborators as well. This may be indeed another option; I am personally disenchanted with mind maps but for many people they are very intuitive.

*OK, OK, I’ll get it eventually…