Try a tiddlywiki. It's free and simple (aalthough some people have reaallly extended it).
Download at: http://tiddlywiki.com/ Info at: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page On Sep 16, 3:24 pm, mzatanoskas <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope people won't mind if I indulge in a completely off topic > question. The reason I ask it here is because I figure the kind of > people who are using mnemosyne are the kind of people who are likely > to have dealt with the same problem that I'm having now. > > Basically I want pick people's brain as to how they organise their > thoughts, ideas etc. So far I have found myself just writing stuff in > text files. Sometimes as mini-essays saved under a particular title in > their own file, sometimes as individual paragraphs within files > containing a broad selection of "musings" related to a general topic. > With more specific thoughts such as ideas or questions I want to > investigate, I've created text files such as ideas-website.txt ideas- > programs.txt or questions-arthistory.txt and then simply add new > questions or ideas to the lists as they pop into my head. > > This works well enough as a basic hierarchical structure, but of > course shows it's limitations when you start hitting a certain volume. > It's difficult to compare and contrast stuff, and to organise thoughts > that don't quite fit the categories, in particular as a one-sentence > question or idea gets added to and becomes a paragraph and then an > essay it gets quite difficult to manage it within this structure. > > So I was wondering how other people managed this. Do you have a clever > filing system to manage this? Do you not bother? Or maybe you use mind- > mapping style software? Or twist some non-"thought-organising" > specific filing software to match your requirements? > > Right now I'm thinking if I could add some "tag" feature to these .txt > files I'd be happy. Then I could sort and search and display according > to the tags I added to the text. I've taken a quick look into some > mind-mapping software, but it often seemed like I had to learn some > whole new way of doing things in order to fit what the software could > do, but not the other way round. > > So I'm very interested to hear what people think and if you have any > tips or recommendations. > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
