outliner/pim files and dropbox and similar programs

Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 8, 2012 at 10:20 AM

Have to say, after a couple of years of exchanging notes/data between my Android mobile, iPad and Windows 7 desktop PC using that simplest of expedients, the text editor, I find myself increasingly using OneNote on all three platforms. Microsoft has developed perfectly satisfactory clients for all three of them, but the iPad has recently also benefited from a lovely editor known as Outline+ (mentioned recently in this forum) that is a positive pleasure to work with. Generally speaking I’ve found synchronisation works pretty well, with occasional errors resulting in extra “Sections” (as OneNote terms them) with the same name plus an additional number. It doesn’t happen often, but does at least mean that all data is retained!

I use CSV export to exchange data between various faves on my desktop PC (e.g. ListPro) and the iPad and Android phone. For both the latter there exists a perfectly competent ListPro-like database manager known as ListManager (actually there are two Android apps called ListMaster, so it’s important to get the right one!), but my favourite database manager on the iPad is actually - yes, I blush - Apple’s own Bento 4, which is turning into a very pleasant little app. It would be even more useful if there were a Windows desktop client (as there is for Mac), but hey, I don’t mind doing CSV imports…

Finally, I now manage my tasks using Remember The Milk (RTM), which has good clients for all platforms (although the web client could do with improvement), and syncs very reliably across all of them.

Cheers,
Bill