Your top 3 tools?

Posted by Gorski
Feb 27, 2013 at 06:13 PM

Zoot - For quickly grabbing, highlighting and categorizing information from the Web. Mostly I grab and highlight text rather than whole Web pages. (I’m a news editor and I’m constantly on deadline, so speed is paramount and Zoot is the best tool for this in my experience)

OneNote - For more leisurely notetaking, modest outlining, storing staff emails by project (retrieving archived email is a nightmare in my office and you can dump email from Outlook to a destination in OneNote with one click.) I also like its flawless synchronization so I always have it on my phone, at home and on my laptop. It’s also great for grabbing images. I could do some or all of this in Zoot but find it wanting in various respects.

UltraEdit - For writing, coding, sometimes outlining and numerous other text manipulation tasks. I prefer writing in plain text and sometimes toy with going plain-text only but it doesn’t work well for marking up articles and other reasons.