I do research & development stuff, on a load of projects simultaneously, in a team of 20 or so for a corporate.
My current solution of having a few hundred tabs open in my web browser, and dozens of PPTs, text files, editors, IDEs, VMs and remote machines is getting out of hand. I forget what I'm doing after getting interrupted, can't find web tabs even with tab stacks, and am feeling inefficient and pissed off.
I used to run paper logbooks, but want somewhere I can dump links, text, clippings, and find the fuckers when I want them, even if I can't remember what it was exactly.
We have onenote, which seems sort of tempting. But it's from MS, so there's a reasonable chance of it just dumping all my notes at some point and fucking me completely.
So - is it tolerable? Is there something more promising? I obviously can't find the words to describe what I want to google, all roads lead to completely inappropriate maintenance logbooking stuff.
I could just run a bunch of word or ppt documents, but that feels a bit shit. Maybe it's not?
If it crapped out timesheet numbers, no matter how crudely, at the end of a month / year, assuming I more or less lived with it open, that would be a bonus when it comes to 'wtf have you been doing all year' questions.