A useful property of 2-pane PIMs

Posted by Chris Thompson
Feb 19, 2008 at 07:04 PM

Are you looking to tag individual lines inside documents, or just the documents themselves?

As for graphical previews… I think they’re useful for recalling data you’ve stored previously. As a personal example, I used to use a program called WebnoteHappy for managing my web bookmarks. (Dumb name, good program btw.) It has a very nice tagging system, but it’s just that, pure tagging. Some time ago I switched to Yep/Leap, which has the same kind of tagging engine, but in addition presents documents graphically (you control the size; they’re not small icons). The tags I store are basically the same, but I’ve found that I interact much more with my bookmarks when I also have visual representations of what the pages look like that are large enough to jog my visual memory.

Incidentally, Yep/Leap also use the filesystem as an adjunct structure to tagging, which is also helpful.

—Chris

DaXiong wrote:
>Chris,
> >I agree with your thoughts on single-pane outliners, but am not certain
>about your comment about tags.
>I’d kill to find a word-processor/outliner with
>tagging capability so I can cross reference my documents.
> >Evernote isn’t really a
>word processor, and General KnowledgeBase just doesn’t “feel” right when I use
>it.
> >Graphical stuff and icon previews seem like fluf to me, not really useful for the
>way I use software.