Knowledge-Discovery Capability

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Oct 15, 2007 at 07:51 PM

john oconnor wrote:

>Thank you Stephen. If I start
>with my information already contained in a program like Ndxcards do Evernote or
>OnenNote add any value or would they be redundant.

ndxcards is intended to serve both as an archiver (like Evernote) and a work space (like OneNote). On the other hand, ndxcards is designed to work with Microsoft products. For instance, you can use cards as nodes in Visio diagrams, and I suspect similar things can be done with nxdcards in OneNote. I would say that ndxcards is largely redundant in function with Evernote. Both use key words and allow hierarchy (ndxcards by a separate strong outliner and Evernote by hierarchical keywords. The main thing Evernote gives you in addition is the organization of notes by time. This probably isn’t enough to justify complicating things. It is more likely, I think, that you will find OneNote’s work space a complement to ndxcards, as their approaches to a work space are different.

>Second is Ndxcards the best index
>card software.

I think it is, but it is the only program of this kind I have first hand knowledge of. From what I have heard and read, it is the best choice, because it contains the best outliner and because the alternatives seem abandoned. Users have remarked that they are unresponsive.