PC Magazine has a pretty good comparative review of the just-released GoBinder 2005 and OneNote SP1. These two "freeform information managers" offer Tablet PC friendly environnments for capturing notes, web clippings, and other information but are equally at home on laptop and desktop systems. I use both regularly as each adds value to how I work. I tend to favor OneNote for long-form notetaking and GoBinder for managing my day when in Tablet mode.
We use contact managers to save phone numbers and addresses. We create folders to store documents and digital images. And we employ personal finance software to organize all our financial information. But what's at our disposal when we need to jot down a thought quickly, take notes at a meeting, or any time we're thinking, "I really should write this down"?
A Freeform Information Manager just may be the answer. This type of program aims to help you organize all the unstructured information that doesn't fit neatly into Outlook, a database, or another type of document. And these applications make it much easier to find the information you're looking for: data can be organized, linked to other information, indexed, and searched.
1. I am looking forward to your piece on how you use GoBinder but if you had to choose one GoBinder or OneNote - which would it be and why?
Posted at 6:17AM on Dec 19th 2005 by laurie