ConnectedText versus Ndxcards

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Oct 18, 2007 at 10:49 PM

Manfred, I really enjoyed your article on the CT site about note-taking.

I guess I am just not able to get my head around the whole wiki notion—part of me rebels, first of all at having to remember conventions, as Stephen spoke about. Why can there not be programming that gives you bold or italic or title at the press of a button. That’s one objection based on doing less than to me seems reasonably possible.

But then I guess I lack the imagination to think of how I would start linking stuff up, and whether I would be consistent.

I know I am missing something here, and I have that feeling everytime I download CT or another wiki for a trial.

Daly

Manfred wrote:
>I am not sure whether you saw this. Nor am I sure how helpful it will
>be:
> >http://www.connectedtext.com/manfred.html
> >I agree that there is a
>learning curve, and that the conventions of a wiki take getting used to ...
> >I am
>convinced that the usefulness of a Note-taking applications, no matter which one you
>choose, increases exponentially in relation to the time and effort you put into it. I
>know this must appear (and is) paradoxical, for you must commit before you really
>know. And after you have committed, you will never really know whether another one
>might have been better. Reminds me of marriage that way ;)
> >On Index Cards: I tried it,
>but it appears to me that it does not translate the index card method into an electronic
>equivalent and is too much of a copy of the paper-based model, but that is my very
>subjective view. (I also did not find it “intuitive” - again, a very subjective
>reaction that has to do with my prior experience.