Review -Personal Memory Manager

It's always good to see a different approach to keep notes and structuring ideas. PMM works rather like having multiple sets of Post-it notes, each of which can hold a basic idea and accompanying text, which can be stuck all over different sheets of paper.

Of itself that wouldn't be enough to provide idea structuring, but PMM allows you to link different notes using simple web-like link lines, which can represent different relationships - either those provided by your software, or your own. What makes this more flexible is that a note can appear on any number of sheets, so you can have different cuts on your data. Notes can also carry images as well as text, and can have attachments in the form of links to external files or web pages.

Altogether this is a simple but quite elegant solution to capturing and structuring information. It's also good value for money - just $64.

However, there are a few downsides. The interface isn't always the most obvious, and you have to go into dialog boxes to do anything (e.g. type text into a note, access an attachment), which is rather clumsy. There is no facility to tidy up a diagram or fit it to a particular sized window. Printing has few options and there's no way to import/export to or from obvious products like Word. Although it's great to be able to use images it only works with .BMP files, not the more common .JPG - and you can't have a note that's part text and part picture - they are always overlaid one on the other, which means the text tends to get lost.

However, PMM's limitations don't necessarily get in the way of its effectiveness for storing and organizing information. As always with these products, it's what fits best with your personal way of working that's ideal, so it's well worth giving PMM a try.

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PMM is available as a free trial with limited number of sheets/notes from the PMM website.