ConnectedText versus Ndxcards

Posted by Manfred
Oct 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM

Daly,
once tastes in note-taking, outlining, and writing are in many ways personal and subjective, so different people like different approaches.

There is a large contingent of Zoot supporters in this forum, and while I have long decided that I will not use Zoot, I still enjoy hearing about how and why people use it. Sometimes I even find something that I can translate into my scheme of things.

One of the reasons why I think it’s worth to make the effort to get involved in Wiki technology is that it opens up a door to a KIND of note-taking application. Since it uses a structured language, it can easily be translated into another structured language. If, at some point, I would need to change to another application, I can just export the whole database to HTML, which is basically text. And I could then import it (probably fairly easily into another application).

Too many of the other contenders have (or used to have) proprietary databases that don’t easily transform.

Manfred