Top Developments in 2007

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 26, 2007 at 07:03 PM

Daly,

Your comment about carrying your information around your neck reminds me that I too have started doing that. So in a way, 2007 could be the year USB-based information management became truly viable, as many of the major PIMs added USB support.

I have to shuffle information among my office and home desktop computers as well as my laptop computer. OneNote works well for this, as it has a powerful and easy-to-use sync component, but you did need to have ON installed on all computers, so that isn’t a viable alternative for use on computers outside my three. I was using a small, free wiki program called Notebook, which worked reasonably well, but didn’t have the power I needed. When MyInfo came out with its latest version that supports USB installation, I tried that, but was disenchanted when I couldn’t import CSV information into it. So I’ve now settled on the portable version of Evernote, which is working nicely so far.

So, yes, one of the major developments in the PIM/outliner world in 2007 could easily be portability.

Steve Z.

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I like looking at them and playing,
>but this year I have got into USB sticks and carrying everything around my neck—much
>more flexible than Web2 or using CDs with data on, which means having the same program
>on two or more computers.
>