Yeah yeah yeah. Materi senam lantai. I often think that my real purpose, apart from dreaming about getting back into aviation and tennis (and, gulp, finishing the next book), is to tinker with every piece of 'interesting' software that anyone can cook up. I've written about dozens of them over the years, and still have many of them at close reach on my computer. Boot ghost from usb. -- the 'spreadsheet for words' that was invented in the early 1990s, then cruelly orphaned by Lotus, but is still. -- an outlining and list- based program. It is ultra-minimalist, text only, straight from the DOS age -- but after Symantec's also-tragic orphaning of the best-loved-ever outliner,, BrainStorm is often the place I turn. (Part of that bittersweet outliner history, from Dave Winer,.) And of course, which I have used since the early 1990s and wrote about in the Atlantic. For all its info-organizing power, Zoot has in the past few years begun showing its age. Like BrainStorm, it is text-only and has no way even to underline or highlight important text. Also, it is too Web-friendly. But its lone-genius creator, Tom Davis of Delray Beach, FL, has been working on an all new, web-connected version, which is now in beta testing and which I'll sign up for as soon as it's released. The idea of the program is to connect any item -- a call you want to make, a web site you want to quote, a PDF file you want to read, or even an entire project you're beginning -- with any other, in a flexible variety of relationships. The Brain Software AlternativeThe Brain Software ManualFWIW, the program calls its items 'thoughts.' Here's an idea of how some of the connections look, in a view that shows many projects for which I'm collecting info or am working on.
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