Outliners and Money

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 7, 2012 at 09:26 PM

As an aspiring sociologist, I can’t help but put a slightly different spin on this. I’d have called this topic “Outliners and Values” because most software like outliners and PIM can help one to produce other types of value than monetary value. Though of course money is often an important one.

Enjoyment in fact alone can be a type of value that one derives from using some software tools and it may not add up to much else in monetary terms in some cases.

But anyway, for me outliners and PIM are part of my academic work, mostly as research tools. If they help me analyse my research data, write a better dissertation, write and publish higher quality research articles (faster and with a more sophisticated output than without them) then they would contribute to creating some values (e.g. a contribution to general knowledge), one of which would be financial value, as I would eventually be able to get a higher paying job as a result.

E.g. the discovery of ConnectedText this year was a game-changer for me because I was stuck with my PhD, lost in my mountains of data, and CT allowed me to introduce some order into the chaos (which is why I can’t stop talking about it :)