Quick capture for Mind Manager

Posted by NW
Nov 12, 2006 at 10:25 PM

OneNote is one great way to make small notes. It looks like we in Europe will have to way until Jan 2007 for release on our side of the pond, but a 60-day trial version should be available to download later this month to keep us going.

Of all the ‘quick note/post-it’ style software I’ve tried ShirusuPad is by far the best. Small footprint, stores data in plain text files, has todo lists and alarms, can monitor the clipboard and be invoked via a hotkey combination, tabbed UI, floating notes.

As for the original item on this post, GyroQ, I have have it and have found it great for getting ideas out of my head whilst not disrupting my train of thought on whatever I’m working on at the time. And yes like all things MindManager related the price is ‘towards to upper limit of acceptable’.

A free alternative is the Lifehacker ‘Quicklogger’ VB script which does something roughly similar, but writes the data to a plain text file.

Nigel