Holiday reflections

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 28, 2014 at 12:55 PM

A happy and successful New Year to all.

My shifts:
the first was to Mac, earlier this year. That was a biggie! Fortunately not too traumatic, because much of my essential data was stored in cross-platform format (PDF files, OneNote).

So OneNote was an early keeper on the Mac, and I also use it on iOS/Android.

But the Mac has so many gorgeous information management apps! I played with lots of them: a whole slew of outliners, plus Yojimbo, Together and others.

The keepers are:
DEVONthink Pro + EagleFiler (I use EagleFiler to collect web pages, then transfer to DEVONthink)
Things for task management (also on iOS). I’ve played with so many task management apps. Things turns out to be the ideal compromise.
Simplenote. Absolutely brilliant. I also use it with MetaNota Pro.
Ulysses (used with a whole range of different iOS Markdown apps, but I’m looking forward to the native Ulysses app for iPad). LightPaper comes a close second.
ClipMenu. There are many more sophisticated clipboard managers, but ClipMenu is tiny and very efficient.

Other favourites include:
Notebooks (the Alfons Schmid cross-platform gem)
OutlineEdit (has overtaken Tree and others)

New goodies that are rapidly becoming favourites:
Quiver (sensational!)
TextWrangler (does anything you want with text files, including XML and other coded formats, plus has a great folder search function)
Keep Everything (mainly because of the way you can transform web archives into Markdown files)

Cheers!
Bill