Tools for thought
Steven Johnson in The New York Times:
2005 may be the year when tools for thought become a reality for people who manipulate words for a living, thanks to the release of nearly a dozen new programs all aiming to do for your personal information what Google has done for the Internet. These programs all work in slightly different ways, but they share two remarkable properties: the ability to interpret the meaning of text documents; and the ability to filter through thousands of documents in the time it takes to have a sip of coffee. Put those two elements together and you have a tool that will have as significant an impact on the way writers work as the original word processors did.
More information about the tool he uses, DevonThink, on Johnson's site.
Anyone know of any good, similar tools for Windows users?
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3 comments about 'Tools for thought'The closest I can think of would be http://www.treepad.com/ for windows, although it doesn't seem to organize images.
A google search for "Personal Information Managers" should reveal other options. But Devonthink really looks like something I need. Even more so if the app could auto-classify and organize something based on a set of rules i provide (so i need not always organize after adding..).
Posted by prema at February 13, 2005 8:45 PM
I just installed Microsoft OneNote 2003 - it seems to do almost everything DevonThink can. They provide a 60day trial on the Microsoft site (i installed mine using an enterprise license, through my company).
Posted by prema at February 17, 2005 6:18 PM
Have a look at ADM http://www.adm21.net/. It is an outliner with a very powerful metadata and keyword system. Version 3 is available for a 30day testing period and version 4 will be released within the next two months.
Posted by Dominik at July 20, 2005 2:06 AM
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