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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 24, 2012 at 04:46 PM
Wow. Someone who is actually imune to CRIMP. There is hope!
JoGirl wrote:
>This is day number three for RightNote on Bits du Jour. It must be very appealing or
>tempting and I would probably get it if I didn’t already have OneNote. But a second app
>for note taking would only make me work harder at devising a system to use them both and
>without overlap.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 24, 2012 at 04:49 PM
>Wow. Someone who is actually imune to CRIMP. There is hope!
Well. Maybe “JoGirl” is in fact a girl. That would explain everything ;-)
Posted by JoGirl
Feb 24, 2012 at 05:13 PM
Gentlemen,
I am a girl but that has nothing to do with non-crimping. I am on the brink of crimping, though, since I downloaded the trial version of Rightnote because I could not stop thinking about it. I’m sticking with OneNote, The Journal, Scriviner, and Writer’s Blocks. I almost know how to use all of them and cannot afford, time-wise, to add to my collection.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 24, 2012 at 05:57 PM
JoGirl wrote:
> I’m sticking with OneNote, The Journal, Scriviner, and
>Writer’s Blocks. I almost know how to use all of them and cannot afford, time-wise, to
>add to my collection.
It’s that kind of rational thinking that I just don’t get! ;-)
Steve
Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Feb 24, 2012 at 09:01 PM
I am a civil rights attorney and an insufferable late-60s feminist, but I must correct you on two counts: First, you are a woman and not a girl and second, CRIMPing has everything to do with gender. CRIMPing is another manifestation of Boys-and-their-toys syndrome. We males are not actually interested in efficiency; we are interested in talking about efficiency. If I spent half as much time writing as I did testing writing tools, I would have actually produced at least five times more publishable material than I have. Researching sucks; writing sucks; but messing with outliners is (perversely) fun.
I am not saying that outliners and relational databases are not important tools to use in academic writing; they are but as you say: find something, master it, and then use it to write. The point is that: we don’t want you to say it. We already know it. And if you want to be a member in good standing in this men’s club, you will want to abide by the unwritten rule that we want to pretend in public that we are on a solemn quest to discover the perfect outliner for a legitimate, compelling, and urgent business-professional need. Either lie or leave. The choice is yours (and why do I have to follow this sentence with a smiley face when hopeably anyone can see my cheek protruding because my tongue is pressing against it?)