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Poll 2: Now it is easier: You can add three applications to your computer!
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Posted by jamesofford
Mar 26, 2007 at 05:22 AM
Two things.
First, my votes for software that I would install are OneNote 2007, Omea Pro, and Jabref. Onenote 2007 is much better than the 2003 version and I use it every day. Omea Pro shows lots of promise, even if it does have the kitchen sink approach. I am hoping that the JetBrains guys can get it moved over to Open Source and that it has a life ahead of it. Finally, I am a scientist who needs to maintain organized databases of published papers and JabRef is my current favorite.
I realize that UltraRecall has a big following on this site, but I have yet to be able to figure it out. Zoot will probably take over from some of the others as soon as it has moved into the 32 bit era.
A question-Does anyone know when Citavi is going to be available in English? It looks pretty interesting.
Jim.
Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Mar 26, 2007 at 09:51 AM
I also tried UR several times and then dismissed them as not suitable until one day I bit the bullet and tried it for an extended time (e.g., sevaral days), and now I’m hooked.
Citavi looks promising, and they are working on translating the program into English. I don’t know exactly when, but it shouldn’t be that difficult.
Jim wrote:
>Two things.
>
>First, my votes for software that I would install are OneNote 2007, Omea
>Pro, and Jabref. Onenote 2007 is much better than the 2003 version and I use it every
>day. Omea Pro shows lots of promise, even if it does have the kitchen sink approach. I am
>hoping that the JetBrains guys can get it moved over to Open Source and that it has a life
>ahead of it. Finally, I am a scientist who needs to maintain organized databases of
>published papers and JabRef is my current favorite.
>
>I realize that UltraRecall has
>a big following on this site, but I have yet to be able to figure it out. Zoot will
>probably take over from some of the others as soon as it has moved into the 32 bit era.
>
>A
>question-Does anyone know when Citavi is going to be available in English? It looks
>pretty interesting.
>
>Jim.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 26, 2007 at 02:56 PM
My own choices are the three programs I currently use most of the time (apart for the office suite applications):
- UltraRecall as my main project database
- Brainstorm as my main text development environment
- Either FreeMind or MindManager for visualising structures created in Brainstorm
By the way, a question for Andreas; could you share with us your experience with Aibase? I tried it and registered it but have never really managed to use it productively.
I have the impression that there are various small (one to two men) dedicated software development teams out there that have taken very different, but equally fascinating routes to information management: Tom Davis (Zoot), David & Marck (Brainstorm), Neville Franks (the Surfulater platform rather than Surfulater itself), Torsten Walter (Aibase), to mention but a few.
alx
Harlander wrote:
>Whizfolders 6
>Aibase
>Citavi (The german equivalent to IdeaMason)
>
>Andreas
Posted by Ike Washington
Mar 26, 2007 at 07:06 PM
If I really had to, I could probably get much of my work done using just firefox - as long as I had the right addons. I’m completely dependent on scrapbook to save complete webpages and pdf files, highlighter to mark webpages, scribefire to publish to my blog. And I could manage the rest, ie gtd, via web 2.0 services, possibly, or tiddlywiki.
Playing by the rules here:
- DT Search for searching through my files
- Evernote for collecting short snippets of information
- Rationale (my new rather excellent mindmanager replacement: http://www.austhink.com/) for building an argument, putting together articles
btw & off topic: thanks Chris for getting me my forum details back so quickly: perhaps I should add a good password keeper to my list - just downloaded this, looks good: http://keepass.info/
Posted by Harlander
Mar 26, 2007 at 07:08 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>By the way, a
>question for Andreas; could you share with us your experience with Aibase? I tried it
>and registered it but have never really managed to use it productively.
Aibase is a strange thing. It lacks so many features that it seems to be impossible to use it productively - but then again the lack of features is the reason, why I use it every day.
First of all, I have to deal with a lot of text. I use Zoot for all those unstructured bits and pieces I encounter on the web, but I have found out that long paragraphs of text are useless when I have to find something quickly, especially if a broader context is needed to really understand everything. So I use Aibase to create outlines or trees of the relevant information. When a branch grows too large to handle it easily, I just copy a part of itand create a new page. It works like a wiki without the cumbersome markup.
What I like is the ease of use when it comes to rearranging branches, cutting, pasting them, having multiple trees side by side (a bit like in Onenote) etc. I can connect different branches with lines, use colours to mark them etc. It really helps me seeing what a subject is all about.
While other programs may look better, give you the warm feeling of “I know that the right information has to be there somewhere, I just have to search for it”, Aibase won’t let you pretend to know anything, it forces you to work with your data instead and, thus, understand it thoroughly.
I hope you can see my point.
Andreas