> Sounds like you need OmniFocus.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm surprised I didn't know about it, as I
have and love some of their other programs. I've downloaded it and
will take a look. One thing I saw in the description that was
attractive to me is that you can email a note to yourself and have it
added to OmniFocus automatically. Very cool. Now that I've swapped my
old Palm for an iPhone, I find myself emailing notes to myself a lot
and then processing them when I get back to my laptop, because it's
the easiest way to get them into my system.

On the other hand, I also want to find a way to get my lists from my
laptop onto my iPhone easily (and hopefully not stashed in the notes
box of a dummy contact, which is the only way I know to do it at
present -- so it takes a slightly annoying number of taps to access
information that ought to be closer at hand, and it really sucks
aesthetically). Doesn't say on the website if OmniFocus can export
current lists as text files; it would be a plus for me if it does.

I'm a bit leery of buying specialized software for something that is
essentially list-making and that I'm not really feeling any problem
with how I'm handling now; but maybe if it makes some of the
"bookkeeping" element of it easier, might be worth it. I'll take a
look when I have a little time.

Thanks also to whoever mentioned Eagle Filer, which I hadn't heard of
before either. I'm kind of tired of spending money on more note-
organizing programs, though, so unless it has a very clear advantage
to me over Yojimbo I can't see myself switching yet again. Already
gone through iOrganize (liked its simplicity, but absolutely no
response to repeated email messages about a license I'd paid for not
working, so that left a very bad taste), SOHO Notes (runs slow when it
gets full, and I've lost important notes twice now through its
bugginess), Circus Ponies NoteBook (which I love and still use for a
few particular applications), maybe some others too that I'm not
thinking of just now. Nested folders isn't enough of a make-or-break
issue for me to go through the process of transferring all my notes
yet again to a new system, nor do I want to lose .Mac syncking, which
*is* halfway to being a make-or-break issue for me these days.

What I'm leaning toward right now is going back to what I was doing
for a while, exporting my notes for completed projects as text files
and keeping them organized that way. Not ideal, but keeping my list of
collections and the drop dock more manageable seems more important
than the few seconds it'll take me to re-import the files if I need
them again.

The killer feature for me at this point would be to be able to access
and edit my text notes on my iPhone. If Yojimbo doesn't develop a way
to do that, and a similar program does, I'll be tempted to switch. Add
in .Mac syncking and I'll be *very* tempted.

Scott Marley

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