For me, the late 1980s and early 1990s was the golden age of personal computing, when computers augmented our brains before Google replaced them. At least, I have never since been as excited about sof...

Manfred, the fascination is in part that when KeyNote came out there were few such programs that were both "folding" and tabbed, something that is now commonplace. But in addition, KeyNote was written...

JohnK - if I recall correctly KeyNote can be set up with virtual rtf nodes meaning that nothing is locked into a proprietary database.

Via Lifehacker, has anyone tried this? http://tobu.lightbird.net/

"but I just became engaged at age 51" Congratulations Stephen!

"... here’s yet another outliner/tree-based PIM. It’s called SoftyWrite." I honestly didn't think anything would ever top InfoSnatch, but SoftyWrite just might.

Steohen Zeoli wrote: "Could just as easily have been DataCement." I think DataCement is a *great* name!

As Chris Murtland said, Firefox has become practically an operating system for me, and truth be told my two most frequently used apps are Gmail and Google Reader. Aside from those: 1) OneNote 2007 2)...

Another vote here for OneNote 2007. It's remarkably flexible and "ergonomic." I keep it open all day. It's a gigantic program, but its resource usage does not seem worse than other "PIM" programs. It ...

It could be a very exciting year: ConnectedText 3.0, Zoot 4.5, a new PersonalBrain, OneNote 2007 (which is frighteningly huge, requires the separate installation of Windows Desktop Search, yet has awe...

Two things I like without having yet tried the program: First is the 60-day trial. Second is the modular pricing. Does anyone else do that? I think it is excellent. In a CRIMP moment I purchased Tex...

After looooong experience with information managers, I find that one of the features that matters most to me is what I think we call "line searches," i.e., search queries that show every line in which...

I too put off upgrading to Ff 2.0 for fear of "breaking" extensions. But I finally took the plunge, just so I could try Zotero, and I have to say it was the easiest Ff upgrade ever--maybe it's because...

For quick note-taking I have always found that nothing works better than a good text-editor. Even the best, most feature-rich text editors have small memory footprints. I keep UltraEdit open all day l...