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Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 16, 2015 at 09:49 PM
Never one to pass up a good CRIMP, I’ve downloaded Keep Everything (lite) to check it over this weekend.
I guess I have a different idea of “Everything”—web pages, tweets, etc., are very little of my everything. Most of what I keep (in DEVONthink, mainly, but also in vanilla folders) are heavyweights like PDF, .docx, .xlsx, etc.
DEVONthink has never been a resource problem for me, but I consciously decided a couple of years ago to buy a maxed-out MacBook Air—maximum memory - 8GB - and maximum SSD - 500 GB. It’s earned its keep over and over. I always concurrently run DEVONthink with 12+ GB of databases, Mail, Safari, Parallels with Windows 8 and the Office suite, Curio, OmniFocus, and a bunch of editors. Never ever had a slowdown on this puppy.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 16, 2015 at 10:00 PM
In retrospect, it’s what I should have done. But in the meantime, I take some pleasure in streamlining the way I work as much as possible. And in fact, even a 4GB MBA is not as wimpy as I’ve heard people suggest - especially if you do something PC users are better at than most Mac users, maybe: clean your machine as regularly as possible.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 16, 2015 at 11:09 PM
LOL - my first laptop had a black-and-white screen and 20 MB (yes, MB) of disk space. I spent half my time scraping bits off it, defragging (who does that anymore?), and putting stuff on floppies. I still have it!
MadaboutDana wrote:
if you do something PC users are better at than most Mac
>users, maybe: clean your machine as regularly as possible.
Posted by jaslar
Jan 17, 2015 at 01:41 AM
I believe Cotton Notes has a Chrome app - so does work cross platform.
Posted by jaslar
Jan 17, 2015 at 01:49 AM
And, oddly, I just stumbled across this: http://www.ollapp.com/app/cotton-notes/android. Not sure how old that is. I’m not actually a Cotton Notes user. But those who are (in the Mac world) rate it highly, and it appears to be a capable outliner.