Moving information

Posted by Ike Washington
Nov 27, 2007 at 05:14 PM

GTD Wannabe wrote a good post on this last year:
Can You Commit to One Information Application? Should You?
http://gtdwannabe.com/2006/10/can-you-commit-to-one-information-application-should-you/

Her conclusion: think carefully before you commit; accept that you probably will jump one day. Good advice in a variety of situations.

My 2 cents (tuppence, really): make sure before hoovering your life into a new PIM that you can export out again to a text or html file (pdf, maybe, maybe not for me) - and without too much trouble (however you define “trouble”).

I was okay with Evernote for seven, eight months. Used it everyday for research and ad hoc notes. Then something in the database snapped. It wasn’t a great problem: I exported the data in a couple of clicks to an html file. Downloaded the Zoot 32 beta http://www.zootsoftware.com/Downloads/Program/Download Beta.htm , spent the evening setting it up so that it pretty much filled Evernote’s place. And I haven’t looked back. I’m very happy with Zoot. Actually, far happier than with Evernote. And I can access my old Evernote data via DT Search.

Ike