I spent hours today looking through this useful list trying to decide whether I wanted OmniOutlinerPro and OmniGraffler.
As it turns out, I ultimately preferred Circus Ponies NoteBook, which is very visual and looks like a real notebook. I do prefer at least a simulacra of the real thing rather than a bunch of words in a long white sidebar. As of May 2008, the NoteBook is still in version 2.1, but they’ve just announced what 3.0 will be like at MacWorld.
Some of the new features include a flowchart system much like what OmniGraffler is offering, along with a few other very useful features. Right now the academic price is set at about $30, full price being $50, but that is set to go up to $70 when the new version is released sometime this summer. I’m glad I bought in, because I get the upgrade for free.
All I have to do now is figure out if iProcrastinate is the right organizing app for my classwork. I doubt I’ll need weekly reminders of when to buy groceries, so maybe if I having meetings and such I can just list them through iCal or the Anxiety task runner that hooks up to the calendar feature already in Mac.
There’s only one last program I’m strongly considering, and that’s TypeIt4Me. Using shorthand commands to produce words I’m likely going to be typing for the rest of my life, like plaintiff or defendant or appellate, does sound like a pretty good replacement. It’s too bad there isn’t a demo copy available for trial.
Sweetness out.
