![]() Focus on apps that have free trial versions, since you’ll want to get some experience with the app before you commit to it, and because you’re likely to want to use this app for years, stick with apps that are getting regular updates. I offer rating graphs and commentary for the ten apps that garnered the most votes for the rest, the research is up to you, since only you know what features are important. Without further ado, then, here’s the full list, sorted by number of votes. ![]() The most interesting apps are those that have a lot of votes and a high weighted average, such as OmniFocus (158 votes, 3.87), nvALT (100 votes, 3.85), and DEVONthink (213 votes, 3.80).īe sure to look at the full results and read the comments on the original article, since there’s a ton of useful information there that I couldn’t convey here. TheBrain and iNotepad had only 5 votes each, but scored 3.80 (5th) and 3.60 (6th) in weighted average. Apps added relatively late in the survey garnered fewer votes, but if they have a high enough weighted average, they may still be worth looking into. ![]() Microsoft OneNote, for instance, ranked 6th in number of votes, but 27th in the ratings. Apps that received a lot of votes are well-known, but not necessarily popular.What should you take away from this list, when looking for a personal information management app? Apps that received only a handful of votes have skewed weighted averages, of course, so I also counted the raw number of votes each app received. When it came time to evaluate the results, I calculated the weighted average for each app, assigning a weight of 1 (Avoid it) through 5 (Can’t live without it) for the five choices - the best weighted average possible is thus 5. A few commenters even said that they use more than one of these apps simultaneously, since different apps have different strengths. On average, responders rated nearly four apps each, meaning that some people have used a lot of the apps in the list at one time or another. The other thing that became clear is that these apps, although they’re nominally in the same category, actually vary quite widely. That resulted in accepting a few apps that were more outliners than information managers. Had to set some limits and thus kept it focused on Mac apps that felt as though they could be an alternative for the primary features of Circus Ponies NoteBook. Even more apps than that were suggested, but I realized early on that “personal information manager” was a term that some people took to mean “task manager.” Others suggested Web apps, general databases, text editors, and even the Finder, and while all of these might work well for taking, finding, and organizing notes and other information, we The survey garnered responses from over 600 people, and suggestions for 16 apps on top of the 20 we started with, including some I’d never even heard of before. Our call for ratings of Mac personal information management apps last week was a huge success (see “ Vote for Your Favorite Mac Personal Information Manager,” 11 January 2016). Your Favorite Mac Personal Information Managers #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.
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