After an unmanageable number of note-to-self emails — I mean, just imagine having to sort through an inbox of hundreds of things you sent yourself with the expectation of following-up later — I finally transferred them all to Evernote and haven't looked back. (Really, I can't recommend using something like Evernote or OneNote more for the purpose of brain dumps).
The problem I see with solutions like Hopper is that they aren't ubiquitous. I have to load a website and deal with whatever interface they've decided is the 37signals-esque simple-is-best approach to solving a problem that only matters because their execution pretty decent and for that reason I come back to it more than once... At least with Evernote I can throw shit in, in whatever format I prefer, categorize it, and then come back to it later when I feel like looking at what I thought was so rad at the time. It's no wonder so many people do this over email.
Back when I had dial-up and wasn't online all the time, my solution to this problem was Notepad. Yes, plain old .txt. THAT's how to get shit done. Don't matter what fancy tools you use.
The problem I see with solutions like Hopper is that they aren't ubiquitous. I have to load a website and deal with whatever interface they've decided is the 37signals-esque simple-is-best approach to solving a problem that only matters because their execution pretty decent and for that reason I come back to it more than once... At least with Evernote I can throw shit in, in whatever format I prefer, categorize it, and then come back to it later when I feel like looking at what I thought was so rad at the time. It's no wonder so many people do this over email.
Back when I had dial-up and wasn't online all the time, my solution to this problem was Notepad. Yes, plain old .txt. THAT's how to get shit done. Don't matter what fancy tools you use.
(No offense, Hopper...)