The Tungsten PDA

When we need to aim something quickly, by default we Pad for taking notes show of hands or small drawings, Memos to save text annotations, and the list of tasks to sort things we have to be done by assigning priorities and deadlines maturity.

But sometimes, we need something a little more advanced, allowing save the ideas of a hierarchical way, for example with a tree structure, and functionality go pointing the percentage completion of each task, to know at a glance how overall progress. In addition, for large categorized lists, the process of entering text into the Palm if we do not have a wireless keyboard can become very slow, so that evil would not be able to edit these lists tree from a program on your PC.

This year I needed a program aiming to go well during my career draft order, the various parties still to be done, to test ideas, texts to be included in the documentation or tutorials I wanted to look more calm. That is why I decided to try these porgramas called Outliners, or organizers of ideas, as they also have their most useful if they are always available in our PDA.

Given the high demand that seem to have these programs, we can find many for Palm. I am going to comment on the three I tested: Progect, Bonsai and ThoughtMaster:

• I will try Progect first, because software is free. It performs its tasks well, although it is the simplest of the three. Although the project page appears stop since 2004, developers continue to communicate with users through this yahoo group. The part that is synchronized with Progect on the computer, is a separate project, whose name is Pdesk. I have tested the latest version of both Palmer and working properly on 5.

  

• Bonsai is another outline, is to pay, but it's a great program. It is more complex than Progect, allowing a few more details, link to our Tasks and Notes applications, icons to define the tasks and so on. Bring including both the program that is installed on the PDA and running on your PC. It is worth a try.

  

• The other outlines that recomeindo is ThoughtManager. Like Bonsai is to pay, but it's worth. Aesthetics that is less worked Bonsai, and some may have less choice, but in daily use I've seen that meets what I needed.

  

Any of the three allow well-organized ideas, so I recommend the three test before choosing which to use. We can see from the home page ThoughtManager examples of how sometimes we can come either an outline:

• Teachers can create lesson plans to teach, and underpinned the achievement of these.
• For project managers, an outline is the ideal application to maintain well-ordered information on the progress of projects, and the group members. For this task there is another more specific agenda, the same company that created Bonsai, called Project @ Hand, which is even compatible with Microsoft Project.
• People working in computer technical service, to maintain lists of solutions to try and recall what had been tested by each customer.
• A cure could also use it to prepare their sermons, but I do not know if this will be very common.
• Doctors and nurses can keep the progress of treatment and progress of each patient.
• Students can keep their notes in class, and tasks, organized.
• And for people in general, these programs can make a shopping list, planning for a party, a camping, or any other activity that requires checking a list.

By: Mark Gonzalez Troyas in Analysis
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