Wiki -- Why?

Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Sep 2, 2006 at 10:12 PM

Chris,

I don’t think there is one best information manager that I know of. I think 80% of my information is plain texts, but I do keep tables, bullet and numbered lists on many of my notes. I just think the extra formatting requirement gets in the way for me, although ConnectedText does have tool bar buttons for some formatting functions.

Also, once I started to create the links, then some of my notes gets buried so deep inside the links that I have to utilize the search function to locate the notes. So, the advantage of Wiki disappears for me in that regard.

Anyway, I’m not here to tout whether one form of system is better than the other but to capture my experience in using these programs.

One thing I find great about Evernote is multiple methods to organize my notes (dates, manual and automatic categories, keywords, etc). It also has a great search and export features now.

When Zoot becomes 32-bit and support rich texts, I might go back to it as my main organizer.

Ken