Your current PIM software portfolio - November 2008 Poll

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Nov 23, 2008 at 12:19 AM

I use many applications, to avoid boredom, but the dearth of software development—which I don’t expect to change soon or even in the next few years—has let me distinguish core from optional applications. My core applications, in order of first use on a writing project, are:

GoalEnforcer (http://www.goalenforcer.com)
Clipmate
MS OneNote
MindGenius
NoteMap (longer projects only)
MS Word 2007

As my fundamental work principle, I proceed always from a task outline, revised before deviating, residing in GoalEnforcer. I supplement the task outline with content outlines, first a graphical-outline mind dump, then, for longer projects, a full-sentence linear outline, but I follow these outlines less assiduously than the fundamental task outline.