Searching without hope of finding, and holding on for dear life.

Posted by jamesofford
Aug 5, 2007 at 04:02 AM

Fellow Outliners:

Like many of you I have been searching for some time for a piece of software that will help me to organize all of the information that I have flying at me. And like many of you I have been frustrated. I have used Zoot, UltraRecall, Onenote, a few other different outliner programs, Ecco, and Omea Pro. None of them quite did what I wanted. Zoot comes closest, but I need to be able to store graphics, and the text based nature of Zoot precludes that.
I have been envious of the choices on the Mac side for some time now, and am about to make the jump. I figure this will give me the ability to try out a set of software that seems to at least come close to my needs. Things like Devonthink, Yojimbo, Tinderbox and others hopefully will allow me to do what I would like. Also, as a scientist I spend a lot of time with papers downloaded from various journals. These are all PDF files. The Mac also has Papers, a program that promises to help me organize the multitude of PDF files on my hard drive.
And given Parallels, I can also keep the stuff that works on the PC side. Mostly Onenote.
Anyone who has experience with PIM software on the Mac side? How does the stuff really compare with what we have on the PC side?