EN 3 Changes and a Market Overview

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 03:11 PM

Re Maple, Jot, etc., I think they are essentially dead in the water, and in today’s market overpriced for what they do. Unless they get new capabilities, they’ll be gone.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Daly,
> >A few notable applications you left off your list:
> >* OneNote is quite
>powerful, though it is quite different than most of the information managers
>discussed here. It has the support of the titan behind it. I believe one reason for
>EverNote’s change in direction is that version 2.2 was competing directly with ON…
>and even though EN was cheaper (in fact free), it appears to have been losing that
>battle. The biggest issue with ON is that it still does not play as well with its own
>siblings (Word, Excel) as it could.
> >* The Brain… which I do not know much about…
>Is it an information manager or a mind mapper?
> >* Personal Knowbase… I know it
>doesn’t have much of a following on this forum, but it has always appealed to me in its
>simplicity. A keyword based note card system… a stripped down version of
>InfoHandler. Still has a loyal following.
> >And as long as you’re mentioning
>Treepad, we should probably mention the other long-in-the-tooth two-pane
>outliners: Jot+, ActionOutliner, Maple and BlackHole Organizer. These were
>exciting when they first came out six or seven years ago, but now have been passed by. I
>must say, however, that I still use Treepad Lite fairly often. It is quick and easy to
>use, is a single executable file (so can be used from a USB drive), and the lack of bells
>and whistles is just right for some jobs.
> >Steve Z.