How indeed?
Guilty as charged. I *love* Treepad.
You know Susan, I used to like Treepad a lot, and used it for years. You
could create the categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub categories, or
"branches". So neat, tidy, orderly, and fun until your categories became
borderline or ambiguous.
After my branch structure got pretty big, It became tiresome to manage, and
I re-thought the entire purpose of a simple PIM. There must be a way to
skip some steps and complexity here.
The purpose of a PIM is not to keep you busy tidying, sorting, classifying,
and stroking it like a pet. The purpose of a PIM is to store, retrieve and
copy data as quickly as possible, and to make searching by keywords or "free
association" as fast as possible. Sort of like googling. So I gave up
Treepad. I still like it and recommend it highly, because it's cool. But I
can't justify using it myself because of the little rituals to use and
maintain it, and it's not the fastest way to store and retrieve notes.
I now keep my notes and lists in a structure-less, nearly chaotic ASCII file
that is the fastest possible way to enter, search, retrieve, and copy. Not
pretty or neat, but FAST.
"Ask not what you can do for your PIM. Ask what your PIM can do for you!"
-=old Muslim Proverb=- (substituting "Allah" for "your PIM)
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results" -=Churchill=-
"Too much coffee makes one run off at the mouth"
-=Bob=-
-- Bob
