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Zoho NoteBook … A decent OneNote competitor?

Zoho just announced Zoho NoteBook and posted a video on YouTube. According to TechCrunch it won’t be available until March.
From what I can see, it’s awesome… Finally a real competitor to OneNote! It has many of the same core features, plus some new ones.
The key items I want to check out first…

FireFox “Send To” plugin. [...]

StudentTabletPC Tidbits…

Sunday is a day of rest, but not for the StudentTabletPC blog! It is a great resource site, but the tidbits I missed yesterday have nothing to do with their content…
This morning I discovered that I was forced to sell all my BlogShares (Fantasy Stock Market) stocks in StudentTabletPC. A hostile take over in which [...]

Agendus v4.2

Iambic has just updated Agendus to Version 4.2 for Outlook and Palm Desktop.
I used to use Agendus with my Palm Zire 72 and it worked great. I preferred the desktop version because of the four panel display of todos.
I tried the Outlook Version, but it was causing 2007 B2TR to crash when trying to [...]

Top 5 Posts of October 2006

Here they are.

SyncNotes – Sync Notes on Multiple Platforms
Evernote 1.5 Released
What to do with my Wacom?
Mind Mapping Debate
iGTD wins first round of “My Dream App”

SyncNotes – Sync Notes on Multiple Platforms

From the Publisher: 
“SyncNotes helps you keep you important snippets of information at your fingertips, always.  SyncNotes is a system that allows you to easily store, retrieve and even communicate small pieces of textual information. The SyncNotes System consists of a desktop software that allows you to put up virtual sticky notes on your screen, a [...]

What to do with my Wacom?

I found a great “deal” on a Wacom Graphire4, but I’m not sure what to do with it…

OneNote 2007 doesn’t treat it like Ink unless you use Vista.
I removed Vista last month because it was on my highest end workstation. I could reload it on a lesser PC, but am not motivated to. The [...]

Quick review of FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit

Unfortunately the FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit did not pass my initial usability testing. While it may be great for those familiar with FileMaker Pro, I found the following items to be barriers to my readiness to adopt this program…

Lack of Tab Indenting in the Notes. Goes to next field instead.
Non-standard [...]

Free FileMaker “Campus Productivity Kit”

FileMaker has released a special run-time version with 5 modules…

Manage Contacts
Organize Research and Lecture Notes
Track Group Project Assignments
Coordinate Events
Prioritize To-Do Lists

Check out the Campus Productivity Kit product page for the link to download it.
I’m haven’t actually installed it yet, but have heard good things about FileMaker Pro in the past so I look forward to [...]

GTDGmail FireFox Extension Available

GTDGmail v1.11 has been publicly released.
http://www.gtdgmail.com
or
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3209/

Easily Organise GTD Labels
Labels are now structured into Contexts, Status, Projects and References; making it easier to read and use.
Labels can be applied much more rapidly than in standard Gmail.
Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks
Quickly review outstanding GTD tasks that are over a few days old.
Save Specialised Searches
Searches can be created and [...]

Information Overload: Part 1: What do you think?

I just came back from my CS 4001 class, which is an ethics class for software engineers. Usually we talk about different things software developers have to deal with (safety vs. meeting dead lines, fallacies in arguments, privacy issues, etc).
Today, we talked about visual arguments and ways they can be misleading. I won’t [...]