Your current PIM software portfolio - November 2008 Poll

Posted by LW
Nov 22, 2008 at 07:24 AM

Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>Hello group,
> >I wondering what tools you are using today to manage the information
>stream during a working day due the the current development in the PIM and general
>software market.

Hi,

My way of looking at “tools” might be a little different than yours—I write fiction.

OneNote 2007. When I start a project, I open a section or a new notebook in OneNote and dump all my thoughts, images, PDFs, FLVs and whatever in there. OneNote is extremely intuitive and a breeze to work with.

Surfulater 3. I rely heavily on the internet for preliminary research and SUL is a great web clipper.

MindManager 7. When I need to visualize my way through plotting or play around with wild ideas, MindManager is the best mindmapping tool for the job. Am I going to purchase 8? Upgrading is pricey. Version 7 is good enough for me.

MS Word 2003. Yup, I haven’t migrated to Office 2007 (except for OneNote which I purchased separately). I tried “creative” alternatives such as PageFour or Liquid Story Binder but discovered that if I want some real work done, I go back to plain old Word.

ClipMate—the best clipboard extension out there. Among other things, I use it to save text clips when I work on a story.

SnagIt—the best screen capture tool out there. I use the combination SUL+ClipMate+SnagIt for web-based research, this setup works great for me.