Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012

Posted by dan7000
Sep 27, 2012 at 05:44 PM

Current software:

- Mindomo for outlining and brainstorming. This is one change from last year, and it’s working out very well.

- The other new tool since last year: Producteev for task management. After many years of Outlook with the Taskliner plugin, I became too bothered by the unavailability of my tasks on platforms other than Windows. Producteev seemed to be the best of the online task managers, and it has android, windows, and ios native apps. It’s easy to email tasks in from Outlook or elsewhere, and they have easy email subject-line options for setting due dates, tags, and folders right from the email. I don’t get the dynamic task scheduling that I used to like with Taskline, but am not missing it too much. I miss not having durations, so I’m using the priority level for that: 1 star is one hour, etc. Short tasks have no stars. I find it’s easy to filter my tasks and see only the starred items to get a big picture of how overloaded I am over the next couple of days.

- Evernote for collecting information and taking notes. I later link many notes into Mindomo

- Outlook for work email and for calendaring. Gmail for personal email. Moved contacts over to gmail for the most part, rather than outlook. Again, I like having them on many devices and gmail seems more permanent and flexible.

- Word for documents. I can do an outline in Mindomo and then export to Word.