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Posted by Hugh
Nov 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM
And Lotus Organizer. I had a version before Lotus bought it, when it was produced as a sort of cottage industry by a British company called Threadz, and I have a memory that I once telephoned the developers at home with a query. I still remember the anchor icon that enabled you to link an appointment with a contact - was it ahead of its time in that respect? And, mimicking a Filofax, was it skeuomorphic before anyone had started to use the word?
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 7, 2015 at 12:17 PM
Sidekick 1.0 for DOS loaded from a 5 1/4” floppy disk, running on the same machine as VisiCalc and WordStar. I think I got more work done on that IBM machine with the green on black monitor than just about anything since. I wonder what Millenials will be nostalgic for in 2045. Snow?
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2015 at 12:45 PM
John Ottensmann wrote:
>Here is a list of programs (the ones I remember) that I have
>actually used, not just tried:
>Bonsai
>SplashNotes
Hey, good to see another (former) Bonsai user out there! My history with digital outliners (as before those I used pen and paper) goes back to the decision to choose Natara Bonsai over SplashNotes, when I finally got fed up with using MS Word’s outliner feature and thought to myself, ‘someone must have invented a specialist outliner software by now’... (I was oblivious of the classics). This coincided with a new need to have to write longer papers with more complex arguments.
Aesthetically I preferred SplashNotes, but Bonsai seemed more sophisticated, so went with the latter and didn’t regret it. But I have to admit that I don’t use it regularly these days, as it’s hard to resist the cross-platform availability of WorkFlowy. And when I’m not it a browser, then I’d have ConnectedText open, which also has its own integrated outliner.
One benefit of having acquired a collection of outliner software though is that one can always choose the right tool for the right tasks, and once in a while a task comes along, for which Bonsai is still far superior than my other tools, such as sorting out and organising massive lists or huge outlines.