3-1/2 years later ...

Posted by Cassius
Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21 PM

I happened across some old, October 2003 savings from outliners.com, pimlist, etc. For example, Daly was becoming involved with Ariadne (purely platonic…I think), and was still using InfoSelect and also MyBase.

Time has moved on, and I expect that many of us have moved on since 2003 to other PIMS/software. So, I thought it might be interesting for those willing (and having the time) to describe what they were using then and what they are using now.

I’ll start:

2003:
GrandView (under Win 98 & 2000), mostly for work items. (At one time I used it for EVERYTHING.)
Ecco, for contact list, planning/meeting listings, some work items.
Jot Plus, for most of my info saving—both work & personal
Maple and WinOrganizer, for personal stuff, mostly 9/11 images
TreePad, only a bit, for personal stuff
Inspiration, mostly for work info saving and using for outlines and diagrams that were put into published reports.
MyBase for saving Web pages
NoteMap, only a little—not for anything important.

Now (that I’m retired)
GrandView (under WinXP), really only for storing non-important passwords
Ecco, only for contact info
Jot Plus for most of my info saving
MyBase for Web page saves and related info

Maple was dropped because the vendor kept changing the file format and stopped providing automatic support for enabling old files to easily open in new Maple versions. I transferred all material from Maple to TreePad or Jot+.

I still have WinOrganizer, but an old version as the current one has a different file format. Some day, I’ll probably move the WinOrganizer files to another format.

I don’t think GV will run under Vista (Please tell me I’m wrong!!!), so I’ll have to convert some of its files to rtf or Inspiration.

I’m not sure why I use Jot+ instead of TreePad, other than I have a lot of stuff in Jot+.

I also have Surfulater, UltraRecall Pro, ListPro, WebResearch Pro, and Page Four. I prefer MyBase to Surfulater. Some day I may get around to trying the others.

I’ve thought a lot about writing a general-interest, non-fiction book that I’ve been working out in my head. Perhaps I’ll use NoteMap or Page Four for it.

-c