Re: Re: Palm Outlining Software

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Tom Baker wrote:

> I have used a number of these over the years.  I depend on outliners.
>
> Progect has been the absolute best for a few reasons.
>
> -  It works fast on the Palm.  No delays after your taps.
>
> -  The display is crisp with good icons.  Motion seems to be intuitive.  I
> play with the trees in my files, rearranging to suit.
>
> -  The desktop companion, PDesk, is similarly well programmed, and its team
> deserves kudos as well.  Fast and good looking.  The conduit works very well
> (except for duplicating entries after a move) so it is a powerful action to
> sync a progect from the palm to the desktop, work on it a while there,
> then sync it back.
>
> -  With PDesk, I am fortunate in being able to export to text files and
> import from text files.  My progects have a lot of scope if I can move them
> out into office software, let's say for a memo to be distributed.
>
> -  I am glad that the Progect pdb databases are really in not too
> complicated a format.  In a pinch, if the Palm has been misplaced, I have
> simply grabbed a text editor (emacs) and looked through the hotsync's binary
> copy of a progect.  I can view the strings I've typed in, and they are in
> order, so I can still skip down a progect tree just by viewing the binary.
>

In case this happens again, there is a project on SourceForge called 
Python PalmDB that will export Progect (and other db types) to XML.

Of course, I'm the maintainer for that software...

> ThoughtManager was also a good outliner.
>
> LifeBalance ... I use it lots.  It is not free, as someone pointed out.
> Much more importantly, it is not an outliner, it is a life management tool
> that has outlining capabilities. Very very recommended as a life management
> tool.
>
> tom
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

Rick


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