Amplenote and Organizedly–two similar all-purpose browser organizers

Over the past few weeks I've learned about and have been trying out two browser-based organizers, Amplenote and Organizedly. I was going to write reviews of each individually, but they are so similar in their functionality that I though it might be more interesting to introduce them and then discuss their differences. Because an article …

Notejoy: My Evernote Replacement

I have been searching a long time for a suitable replacement for Evernote. My biggest gripe with Evernote is that it has an unintuitive user interface, and isn't consistent across platforms (although that is getting better). For me, Evernote has been a junk drawer, but not a place for writing notes… in fact, I can't …

Using Notebooks as a daily journal

Notebooks allows you to organize your notes and journal by "notebook" (left panel). Your entries appear in the notes list (central panel). And the content of the selected note appears in the editor (right panel). In this screen shot the editor is in edit mode. Notebooks by Alfons Schmidt has been around for over 10 …

“Personal” Computing 1.0

A thread over at the outlinersoftware.com forum got me thinking about my computing past. I've been using personal computers for almost four decades now. Crazy. Most everything about computing has changed over that time, except that I was always fascinated by how computers can help us manage our information. Early on I had a tense …