I want it all, now!

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 7, 2008 at 07:16 PM

With the festive season not too far away, I thought I’d post my wishes for the software we discuss here, i.e. information managers. (It’s not much, and quite a bit is actually already available one way or another, but the integration is still missing).

1. I want my information managers to be cross-platform. Personally, I use Windows and am switching to Linux, but I wouldn’t mind it running on Mac as well. (Ideally, I’d prefer it not to be in Java, as I find many such applications too lazy for comfort). In this context, I’m currently trying out Notecase Pro.

2. I want my information managers to be Web 2.0 aware. I don’t want to have to choose between the ‘cloud’ and local storage. I’d like the best of both worlds please. Evernote is nice in this regard.

What the software actually does, and how its features are presented, may be a question of personal preferences altogether; some like outlines, others mind maps.

But the two abilities noted above are, IMHO, what many of us will eventually come to expect. The software I mentioned as examples is far from ideal in terms of overall features, but it is moving in the right direction.

Is it much to ask?

alx