Circus Ponies NoteBook and Aquaminds NoteTaker
These are both outliner apps for OS X. I keep thinking that perhaps something like this will help me stay/get organized. Pour my brain into one of these neat little notebooks. Both of them are 30-day free trials, so I'm afraid to commit. Whichever I chose, I would have to really use, and then what if I chose the wrong one? There are a bunch of threads going through blogland about How to Pay for Software. 30 day trials suck -- give me 30 days of full usage, then revert to a "lite" version.
The rise of applications like this make me think that an Apple-tablet can't be far away.
Flexible notebook metaphor gives you a powerful way to organize information. Use outlines and cells to arrange information hierarchically in ways that make sense to you. Collapse or expand cell hierarchies for convenient viewing. Display any cell's full text or hide all but the first line.
Circus Ponies Notebook
At its most basic level, NoteTaker is a personal note and idea organizer. With NoteTaker, you can make a list, organize an outline or jot down an idea. It's that basic. But with everyday work and lifestyle demands, our information needs are far more complex and diverse. And NoteTaker reflects this reality so that users can add and change the content and use of their information as needed.
Aquaminds NoteTaker
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The rise of applications?
I am not certain what you mean by the rise?
Check out http://www.outliners.com/ for "ancient" outliners that work on MacOS 9 and recent versions of Windows. They are only available gratis. And from all accounts they work well.
Not outliners
Not outliners in general, but these sort of note-taking apps that support handwriting; I just see these as killer apps for Tablet usage.
I played with both for a bit, but somehow doesn't work for me.
Huh...there were a bunch of blog posts about "how to pay for software"...but that Google search puts this site on the front page! I really should do something commercial with this site... :P
OK...just searched Marc Canter's site, and found the pointer to the post that Don Park did on the subject.
How to Pay for Software?
B, you are leaving me dangling here. How should I pay for software? 30 day trials are not bad compared to cripple-ware a.k.a lite or free versions.
I would like 3-6 month's depending on the nature of the software.
I've used Mindjet's
Mindmanager for 4 years. Much more than an outliner.
Much more?
Much, much more? As there marketing @ the website (link provided by you) is not very engaging. I did not notice it's outliner functionality. Is this functionality part of the product? What version(s) and product packages have you used? What makes it much more than an outliner?