![]() I’d suggest the problem should be approached from the needs perspective-what are your requirements?ĭo you need something to organize files for projects or for research?ĭo you need to organize your personal financial or other records?ĭo you need a tool to compare files, or find commonalities, or suggest groups of files?ĭo you need services to capture content on the fly-book marks, clipping or snippets, downloads?ĭo you need to compose text and have a place to manage changes?ĭo you need your documents on multiple platforms (laptop, cloud, iPad/iPhone)?Īnd so on. ![]() We all have a terrific “bucket app” by default-the file system. TheBrain isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I wanted to put it out there for your consideration, because it usually isn’t top of mind when people think of an information bucket. If you’re not all that familiar with TheBrain, the tutorials on this page will give you a good idea of how it works: With a full subscription (not cheap, but not terrible if you use TheBrain extensively), you can have TheBrain on a Windows PC, Mac, and iPad, and keep them all in sync-version 9 works much better than the previous visions. With it you can root out most any information in your brain. And the search function of TheBrain is surprisingly robust. ![]() You can categorize the contents of a “Brain,” with tags (as many tags per thought as you want), and types (one type per thought). Yes, it is best if you have a place for it-a parent “thought”-but that isn’t necessary right away, as you can drag things into an “In Box” thought and organize later. It is so easy to drag almost anything into the plex to save it in the database. Just looking for some friendly, unbiased discussion.Īn pretty darn good info bucket is TheBrain. If you are using DTPO, are you frustrated by the seeming lack of recent development of the Mac app? Do you expect that to change? If you use Keep-It instead of DTPO, why? What are people on this forum currently using to satisfy their bucket app needs? Why are you using a specific app? DTPO) or something lighter, but with less mental overhead (Keep-It or EagleFiler). Something I’m struggling with recently is which “bucket app” to use, whether it’s worth it to use multiple bucket apps for separate areas of my life and whether I want a super-powered full-featured app (i.e.
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