Hopefully a little OT is OK.  As a former Ecco user who moved away from it due to it no longer being supported, and a current OneNote user transitioning to IQ, one thing has really hit me after using IQ for a very short time.  How much I MISSED being able to outline, and how devastating not being able to outline is to my productivity (I have to waste time with endless workarounds in other programs).  It seems to me that outlining is one of the CORE features necessary for any productiviy application that is meant for anything beyond the most basic tasks.  Yet amazingly, there are virtually no business applications beyond personal PIM's made by small companies that support it!  Not Outlook, not Lotus Notes (to my knowledge), not a single CRM or business application that I can think of.  Yet all of these products are supposedly about helping people manage their tasks and schedules.  The only place you find outlining in any forum in a business application is in project management applications that are usually way to complex for indivdual users and not really apporpriate at all for managing day to day activities.  Even GTD, perhaps the most popular produtvity method out there, emphasizes the importance of breaking tasks/projects down into the relevant subtasks, yet again, no business software supports it!

 

Anyhow, using IQ for my info management and personal productivity now has me frustrated at the complete lack of these features in our business software!  And sadly, our business software does a lot of critical things we need, so I do not see an option for replacing it with IQ (thought we might be able to use IQ in some capacity).

 

What is my point in posting?  No idea :).  Just curious if there are others who face the same challenge - having to use business software that forces you to work in a way that you find non-productive or counterintuitive.