Everyone writes note and stores them differently. Each time I head over to London, on business, I tend to sit there for a couple of hours and write notes about the forthcoming meeting, more as a reminder to what needs to be discussed. At the meeting, I tend to write more notes. The other day I was looking back through my old notepad and realised I'd lost track of the notes that I'd written back in 2007 and many of the 'action points' hadn't ever been actioned, for various reasons.

Tree 1.3.1 is a commercial tool for the Mac that enables you to store your notes electronically, using a parent/child approach. Think of a topic, then add various notes within this topic. Move to another and add more child sub-topics. If your notes become extensive, you can simply close the idea tree to get an overview of your thoughts. It's a nice interesting application, but rather expensive - it's $40!

Tree link.

10 Mar 2009