Tree-Based Information Management Software

I've been thinking about how I'm going to organize my research in order to document the steps and processes I am taking towards looking for markets and products to sell. I stumbled upon various software among the "Information Management Software" niche, if you want to call it that. I've narrowed it down to a few software choices to provide with the management I need to organize my research.

**Note: This also serves as an exercise in providing reviews for products, which I think I will be starting out with when I start marketing products.

The tree-based information management software that I will be reviewing includes:

1. KeyNote
2. MyBase
   
3. TreePad

Rank #3: Treepad

Web Page: http://www.treepad.com

Rating: 3.5/5

Description: Treepad's functions are somewhat limited in the free or lite version, but it still does the job of a decent tree-based note taker. There are some limitations such as the ability for tabs, but this is very lite on CPU processing and therefore runs pretty fast.

Rank #2: KeyNote

Web Page: http://www.tranglos.com

Rating: 4/5

Description: This little piece of software is highly functional and is very simple to use. If you need something easy to use and cheap, then this product is definitely a good choice.

It somewhat represents the look and feel of Microsoft Word so it should definitely feel familiar.

Rank #1: MyBase

Web Page: http://www.mybase.com

Rating: 5/5

Description: This is probably the most functional tree-based information manager there is out there. It has plenty of the standard functions of notes and formatting, but it also has the ability to attach files as well as web pages. This program has way too many functions to talk about and is arguably one of the best out there.

There is my little exercise on reviewing a few products. I will be using either one of these information managers to organize my research in a structured way. Some topics that I will probably categorizing include: Niche Research, Market/Product Research, Keyword Research, Campaigns, Research Templates, etc. If I can streamline all of these processes in a cohesive manner, then I should have no problem duplicating the process in the future. More to come in the next posts!