Amazing new discovery

Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 20, 2011 at 07:51 AM

Who Bill? Me Bill? Negative Bill? Nooooo!

Information management is just management of information. The way we choose to do it depends very much on our own requirements and which parts of the process have to have our emphasis. I, for example, only write original work or opinion pieces, so I never need software which manages references, for example. I also never get involved in projects which can’t be held in my head, possibly aided by a few jottings on the back of a matchbox, so I don’t have the same need to manage files by project that others have.

I skimmed through TreeProjects’ help file and I didn’t find anything in there which I can’t do with Ariadne, WhizFolders, Personal Brain or OneNote - though not necessarily in the same way or with the same degree of speed. There are also some things I found a problem - no internal viewer for most file types, for example, and an awkward way to save web pages (which doesn’t work for me). I do appreciate it’s at version 1, though, which is why I agree it’s worth watching.

Without any disrespect to Yaroslav at all, there are loads of people who write products for their own uses and then release them (I’ve done the same…), and that’s as it should be, but there are also so many that have just been abandoned when the author moved on, despite their promises and protestations to write bug fixes and make improvements - just a few I’ve been burnt with would be Priorganizer, TaskPilot, BrainStreamer, FusionDesk, ITSD Organizer (and if any of those are in development again, apologies!) There are also many where progress is so glacial it might as well have been abandoned (no names, as many of those developers are part of the group ;-) )

It might just be me - I’m still waiting for the killer information manager that would allow me to do all my work in one program…

Graham