What do you guys use to organize your information?

Post by **Die** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:59 pm

I'm looking for a piece of software that allows me to organize a whole bunch of random information on my PC so I can quickly look stuff up in it. And by information I mean stuff like todo lists, lists of stuff I need to buy, school assignments, programmer notes and useful code snippets, etc.. Basically all of the stuff that you normally just throw in a textfile on your HD somewhere and then consequently never look at again.

I tried this (free) program: http://www.evernote.com/en/
(screenshots: http://www.evernote.com/en/products/eve ... nshots.php)

But I don't really like it. The node structure is a nice way to categorize notes and it supports some advanced formatting (you can copy&paste HTML into it and things like that) but the way it actually orders and displays the notes isn't really what I'm looking for because it mostly bases all its sorting on chronological order whereas I'm more interested in giving each note a name and being able to pick them from a list.

Anyone have any experience with similar software?

Post by **glossy** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:19 am

some sort of wiki?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:23 am

Outlook 2003

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:26 am

I use this http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Es ... 02428266/2

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:27 am

dzjepp wrote:I use this http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Es ... 02428266/2

Did you think it was worth the $29.95 you paid for it?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:29 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
dzjepp wrote:I use this http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Es ... 02428266/2
Did you think it was worth the $29.95 you paid for it?

lol. did you realize who you quoted?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:36 am

pfft. I'm on day 20 of the shareware reminder, and I think after that there's a nag screen. It's pretty good, maybe I'll consider registering a copy.

Post by **Bdw3** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:38 am

Do you mean register-register, or registering... o.0

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:58 am

google desktop

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:05 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Massive Quasars wrote:
dzjepp wrote:I use this http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Es ... 02428266/2
Did you think it was worth the $29.95 you paid for it?
lol. did you realize who you quoted?

sarcasm meter on the fritz?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:10 am

dzjepp wrote:pfft. I'm on day 20 of the shareware reminder, and I think after that there's a nag screen. It's pretty good, maybe I'll consider registering a copy.

a first

Post by **SoM** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:11 am

pencil n paper

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:36 am

OpenOffice is great, I used it before I got Office 2003.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:48 am

i just use textfiles on my desktop

got one for phone numbers, one for various ideas, and one for things to do.

for school i have a separate folder for each course.

I dun need anything more really.

Post by **4days** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:29 am

http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/

dunno how useful it is if you don't have a palm. i don't use the windows app very often.

Post by **Canis** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:31 am

My brain...

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Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:12 pm

Nice.

Post by **stocktroll** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:13 pm

hmm never thought of that..... i usually throw everything in a single text file on my desktop (cd keys, certain account passwords, hot chicks id want to google/warez later)

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:18 pm

stocktroll wrote:hmm never thought of that..... i usually throw everything in a single text file on my desktop (cd keys, certain account passwords, hot chicks id want to google/warez later)

How do you warez a hot chick!? You could become a very rich man with a technique like that.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:22 pm

Outlook is my favorite one-stop-shop for info like that. Calendar and/or Tasks for to-do lists that will pop-up reminders for you, Contacts for all your peoples, email obviously, Notes for random things you don't want to forget... And, if you like, there is the Outlook Today that compiles it all on one page you can look at each morning that will tell you what's on your list for that day - or the week or whatever.
It's extremely configurable.

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:00 pm

Massive Quasars wrote:Outlook 2003

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Greatest tool of all once you get to know all the functions.
I think that is the most common agenda used in companies.
It even has an alert function to remind you something months later with a note pad and calendar

Post by **Nightshade** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:21 pm

I use Outlook and my Axim.