Lady Bumps and Data Dumps

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 10, 2022 at 01:05 PM

My dear chap,

You clearly have a rather extraordinary mind.

Your anti-Apple rants are quite entertaining, but because they don’t appear to be based on any actual macOS/iOS experience, not very useful.

And as you’ll already know from many, many posts on this forum: a large proportion of forum members prefer/promote apps that allow you to reduce the actual content to text format in any case, precisely because of the risk of proprietary lock-in. Most of us are already pretty careful in this respect.

This is also true of the many developers who have produced such a large number of excellent apps for Apple environments that manage content in the form of text/markdown files.

And yes, as it happens, there are some excellent CSV file viewers on both macOS and iOS (one of them being Apple’s own Numbers; I also use a little app called DB-Text).

I’m assuming you run on Linux yourself? That would be the logical conclusion from your various rants about exploitative developers, platform operators, corporations, etc.?

In which case it would be useful and valuable to hear some positive news from yourself on, for example, Linux outliners or info management apps. This would make a very pleasant change from the relentlessly negative coverage of “CRAP” software which you don’t actually appear to use.

As for the latest bee in your bonnet – iPads and iPad Minis –, it’s very easy to find negative comments/articles about almost anything at all. Just google user complaints on Windows PC-tablet hybrids, for example (and I’ve explained before why I switched my entire business over to Mac when Windows 7 first appeared).

As an Apple user, I can cheerfully say that yes, I occasionally encounter problems. Well, that’s because I’m using an extraordinarily complicated but also rather wonderful machine called a “general-purpose computer” (to use Alan Turing’s appellation). So complex is it, that I’m actually stunned and gratified that it works as well as it does. That’s equally true, incidentally, of general-purpose computers running Windows, Linux or any other modern operating system – amazing!

So why not step down the carping criticism and focus on actual real-world scenarios. Tell us more about your actual personal experience of info management software, rather than stuff you’ve read about online. It would be much more interesting, useful and yes, even valuable. Seriously.

Many thanks and best,
Bill