Quick capture for Mind Manager

Posted by Francis Morrone
Nov 11, 2006 at 04:53 PM

For quick note-taking I have always found that nothing works better than a good text-editor. Even the best, most feature-rich text editors have small memory footprints. I keep UltraEdit open all day long. I keep most of my random jottings in a single file, though you can have any number of tabbed files open. UltraEdit (and other editors) excels at lightning-fast searches across open files, displaying in a separate pane each line in which a search term appears (which is how I wish *all* PIMs and outliners displayed their search results, with, to my knowledge, only the discontinued KeyNote and Nota Bene’s Orbis module displaying their results that way). One text editor, NoteTab Pro, offers a rundimentary (but useful) two-pane “outlining” mode that some might find useful for note-taking. And of course the resulting plain text can be imported by or cut and pasted to just about any other program.