Bonsai

Posted by Ike Washington
Dec 18, 2007 at 12:54 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Bonsai looks very similar to ListPro. Can anyone familiar with both tell me if there is
>a difference? Thanks.
> >Steve Z.

I’ve tried ListPro, have a licence for the current version, but don’t use it. From what I remember, its big advantage over Bonsai is that it allows for custom columns. And it’s easier to set up - comes with pretty good templates. It can also sync collectorz.com software files.

Bonsai is more polished, more ambitious, has thoughtful touches, unexpected and useful functions. Most importantly, as mentioned above, it’s good at creating complex filters. One example: Bonsai allows a next actions filter - I can specify that a list, or a subset of a list, should only show the next item; this is useful for my Getting Things Done routine.

My advice after playing around with both: if you want to do anything complicated with your lists, an all-in-one GTD list, say, go with Bonsai.

And Bonsai wins out for me in that, unlike ListPro, its files can be stored on pda sd cards - I have huge GTD files and not much room left on the main pda.

Ike