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Sticky Brain, OmniOutliner or something else?
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Looks like SB has been updated. I have OO2 and was thinking of upgrading then I saw the StickyBrain update. What does everyone else use? Comments on either? Or is there a third choice worth considering as well?
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a lot of the answer to this depends on what you want to do.
I personally really like OmniOutliner and have used it in a variety of contexts. It works well for me, but then I understand that there are those that prefer other tools.
Ultimately, I'd try the demos for yourself, and see which seems to work best for you in whatever context it is that you're going to be using the app.
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What are you going to be doing?
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Originally posted by Randman:
Looks like SB has been updated. I have OO2 and was thinking of upgrading then I saw the StickyBrain update. What does everyone else use? Comments on either? Or is there a third choice worth considering as well?
StickyBrain looks to be very good with notes. And it can handle lots and lots of notes.
OmniOutliner is good with outlines. It's not as good with generic notes... you have an outline, but condensing 4000 notes and making it easy to search across all of them... it's not so good.
I currently use Circus Ponies Notebook... it scales better than OO (i.e. I have 20 outlines in one "Notebook"). Though I've played with SB, and they addressed a couple issues I had with version 3 (namely, I wanted the ability to edit the created and modified dates, becasue if I import a note I took in 2003, I don't want to have SB think it was created January 29, 2005). It looks very nice -- search is excellent.
Other alternatives to SB are Hog Bay Notebook -- it's fairly analogous.
SB uses OpenBase, which is a great database, and I like the way it backs up. I use OpenBase every day with MarketCircle DayLite, a CRM application so I'm very comfortable with the DB. If you don't want a persistent DB on the system, you may be bothered by its use of a DB on the back end.
I'm going to play with SB 3.2 for a week or so, and see if I buy it. Looking 75% likely I will. I like its search better than CP Notebook.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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I use VoodooPad which is good. OO is cool too - especially version 3, but I prefer VoodooPad - there is a free lite version too.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I must have demoed a dozen notetaking/outlining/related programs -- iOrganize, parsnips, Zwrite, copyWrite, stickybrain 2, macJournal, OmniOutliner (which came with my Powerbook), etc etc. All had their upsides and downsides, but for my uses, I settled on DEVONnote , which is just great and has a supportive community and developer too. It has a more extensive (and expensive) relative called DEVONThink.
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