• Vote Up0Vote Down kcrenkcren May 2008
    Posts: 496

    Zoot is a powerful, highly flexible personal information manager that provides 2-3 hours of tutorials to learn its full functionality, yet can be used without detailed setup.

    Zoot was mentioned in a highly popular GTD Applications article by James Fallows (2 May 2008):
    http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/mac_tool_for_gtd_fans.php

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    The one I keep coming back to for my own purposes, more than a dozen years after I started using it, is the idiosyncratic but powerful Zoot. Zoot is PC-only, and for that matter text-only (no graphics etc), but it runs flawlessly on a Mac under VMWare Fusion.

    Our Quick Takes on Features

    Smart folders are employed to allow a multi-hierarchical project structure. Outlook synchronization is good but not direct integration  or automatic.

    GTD-like categories may be multiple, non-nested (implemented through categories), OR multiple, nested (implemented through smart folder hierarchy).

    Check out their press and testimonials:
    http://www.zootsoftware.com/Press/Press.htm
    http://www.zootsoftware.com/About/Testimonials.htm

    Our initial analysis is attached.

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    Zoot GTD List Submission.xls (31K)

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