Workflow of Dual CRIMPers -- those fortunate folks using both Macs and Windows PCs

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 4, 2010 at 10:16 PM

Cady,

I am in the same boat as you and Tom. I have MacBook for personal use and a PC at work. I’ve been trying to find a satisfying solution, and basically I’ve given up for now. I’ve got VMFusion on my MacBook with OneNote, ConnectedText and EccoPro, but like you, I’ve found that this feels clumsy to the point that I rarely run the virtual machine. I’ve got PersonalBrain running on my MacBook (in Mac OS) and on my PC and I’ve had success with keeping one brain file stored in a Dropbox folder. You’ve got to make sure you close the file on one machine (and that Dropbox fully syncs before shutting down) before opening it on the other machine, but it works fine if you do that. Still, Personal Brain isn’t a perfect application. I wish I liked Evernote enough to rely on it.

Anyway, as I’ve said, I have basically given up trying to find that perfect cross-platform solution. I find that just saving the information I need in a Dropbox folder using PDFs or RTF files works nicely. It doesn’t allow me to have all my data everywhere, but I’m finding that’s okay, as my work and my personal data needs are fairly separate.

Perhaps a windows version of Tinderbox will finally come out. That might prove very useful for us cross-platform folks.

Steve