MacBook experience...

Posted by Hugh
Apr 29, 2008 at 05:46 PM

A couple of thoughts, Steve:

- if you’re trialling a lot of software, you may find Hazel useful (http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php), especially if deployed as in this blog series: http://kinkless.com/article/kinkless_desktop/1_no_mercy_cleanup. The software describes itself as a virtual housekeeper - accurate IME. One of its functions is to clear up wayward files from downloaded applications you’ve consigned to the trash (if of course downloaded after Hazel has been installed).

- in the previous Mac thread I was sceptical about SOHO Notes. However… encouraged by a poster on another forum who said he uses it with full confidence for fiction-writing research, I’ve given it another whirl. And maybe it’s not so bad. There have been one or two odd freezes at unexpected moments, and (possibly) inability to find stuff it should have done. But nothing’s been lost. And it remains one of the few Mac note-taking programmes (the only one?) to to be able to take in data or files or search for a note when the application itself is closed, both of which it does with no fuss. As I said before, parts of its reputation rest on misconceived upgrades in the past. Perhaps that’s history now…