Quick capture for Mind Manager

Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 9, 2006 at 04:28 PM

GyroQ looks like a nifty piece of software, but at $29.95 it looks rather overpriced ($14.95 might have been more reasonable).

I’ve tried a number of system tray note-takers as a way of temporarily stacking up notes, ideas, random thoughts, to-do items, etc., before transferring them to more powerful software programs. Most of them have been based on the post-it notes formulation, and none of them has been really satisfactory.

GyroQ is intended to be used as a conduit to MindManager (hence the high cost), but the general idea of an immediately-available receptacle for quick notes is a very attractive one. Although I have Zoot permanently open and could use one of its databases (the “Atoms” one, for example) for random jottings, I don’t tend to do that - mainly because it is too much effort and interferes with my train of thought.

Currently I use HandyNotes (http://handynotes.net/), which is free, and sits in the system tray. I can’t say that I use it more than erratically, however. ZapNotes (http://www.typingpal.com/zapnotes/) is similar, but requires a somewhat intrusive form to be completed before one can download the free program.

What, if anything, do other people use?

Derek