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Working offline with notes/outliners

(Yes, offline, in my own computer. No webtwopointoh extravaganza.)
Anyone of you lifehackers who have any experince using this kind of software. Any recommendations?

I have been trying a couple of softwares for handling my GTD lists, projects, notes and other bits and pieces I find on the web. Something that can handle the various types of data, and produce nice printouts/exports when I need too present the status of my various projects.

TaoNotes was nice but would be even more useful if it had a proper documentation. It is also a bit bloated since it tries to be several things at once. ConnectedText is really good, but I want HTML support. Its not enough with Wiki markup. I am currently using UltraRecall which so far has met my expectations. It also has an open data structure, so I for could for example add a "@Context" field to my Tasks.

So, any other recomendations?

TOPICS: Windows
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another Emacs solution: Org-Mode Org-mode develops...

another Emacs solution: Org-Mode

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Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain information about projects as plain text. Org-mode is implemented on top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in table editor. Org-mode supports ToDo items, deadlines, time stamps, and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda. Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a structured ASCII file, or as HTML.

article about how someone uses it with the GTD system

 
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