Reducing my PIM/Knowledge/Writing Tools

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 5, 2007 at 02:44 PM

Bob Mackreth wrote:
>With all
>respect, Cassius, you’re overlooking one important factor: for many of us, playing
>around with software is fun.
>

That’s the truth! I remember when I had my first computer—one of those clunky “portable” Compaqs that had the monitor built in and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. The first thing I did was get a flat file database program and create a database of all the books I had read—which, until then, I’d kept in a notebook. Uncountable computers later, I still have the remnants of that same file which I now keep in the desktop version of Ilium ListPro. Among other favorite DOS programs there was a program called InstantRecall, really the first PIM I owned… no, wait, I had Sidekick before InstantRecall… Then I got hold of a wonderful little note manager called MemoryMate. Finally, I found GrandView and my view of software changed forever.

Steve Z.