Workflowy.com. I started using this “cloud-based outliner of unlimited dimensions” about a month ago, and am moving more and more things into it — my journal, meeting notes, various collections, such as quotations I want to remember, and more. The site is for text, not images. I can access it from my desktop, smartphone, or iPad, and it works quickly and conveniently on all those devices.
Workflowy has a really fast search. You don’t have to remember where you put things; just search on any word you recall.
The site also supports tags. Tag anything with an “#” or an “@,” followed by a word or phrase, and you can retrieve everything associated with that mark. For example, click on any “#movie” to see all the entries that have that tag in them. Users can filter and output results in a variety of formats. Workflowy.com is free. A small annual fee adds a couple of features.
Toodledo.com. I have not encountered a better, easier-touse, less-obtrusive to-do list manager. It is cloud based and has apps for most smartphone and plug-ins for most browsers; I use Chrome now, and have used the site on Firefox.
Toodledo works with Google Calendar and others, so your tasks and projects show up on their assigned dates. It has extensive search functions, customizable fields, alarms, unlimited notes, a flexible hierarchy (project/sub-project/ task/sub-task, if you like), and sorting. Of course, to-dolist programs don’t make you do things. But Toodledo.com makes it easy and fast to create tasks and let you find them later. I like that.
Evernote.com. I use this to grab Web pages I want to keep. Evernote stores them both on my machine and the Web, so I can access the pages from my smartphone or iPad . It supports tags and has an excellent search function, so even ....
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