Hugh
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More MacBook experiences
6/28/2014
I think choosing 16 GB of Ram is wise, especially since RAM prices seem to have fallen sharply in the last 24 months, and the OS X platform appears to be getting more hungry.
Re MS Office for the Mac...
Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers
6/25/2014
Sorry - http://robinmizell.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/submission-tracking-for-freelance-writers/.
Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers
6/25/2014
This - obinmizell.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/submission-tracking-for-freelance-writers/ - is a list of "submission-tracking" databases that might be adaptable for the OP's purposes. It appears to have b...
Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers
6/25/2014
I'll probably appear obtuse, but notwithstanding your lack of enthusiasm for Excel, Excel is certainly what I'd recommend - especially if you have some idea of how to use it in the first place, and th...
Curio 9 Released
6/24/2014
I concur with the hope that Yosemite will be less hungry for memory. I remember that a previous version of OS X (Snow Leopard?) shrank the operating system's memory demands. In any case, I'm looking f...
Curio 9 Released
6/24/2014
Thanks, both. I too have long been a fan of Curio - a true outliner in the widest sense of the word - and I'm looking forward to exploring the new version.
One of the indicators for me of the level o...
Boogie Board Sync 9.7 eWriter
6/22/2014
For completeness in the above post, I should have mentioned the iOS and other tablet apps, especially Samsung's, that offer to recognise handwriting and convert it to printed text. I haven't found the...
Boogie Board Sync 9.7 eWriter
6/22/2014
Thanks Dr. Andus.
I'm sure that many users of Evernote wish that it did provide what many would regard as true hand-writing recognition. Unfortunately, it doesn't. It provides hand-writing 'search-ab...
Boogie Board Sync 9.7 eWriter
6/21/2014
Thanks for this, Dr A. I'd never heard of it (and perhaps if I had, its name would have confused or even deterred me, or suggested to me it was useful for my surfing hobby...). I've been looking for a...
More MacBook experiences
6/20/2014
Steve and Jim, thanks for your thoughts.
Prion, yes - although Notesuite is in many other respects a long way behind DevonThink Pro or Pro Office. (However, my interest in NS has been partly prompted...
More MacBook experiences
6/19/2014
James,
I've tried to like Notesuite. It's user-interface is certainly initially strikingly cool and attractive, as is its synchronisation between the Mac and the iPad. The aspect that I find less app...
More MacBook experiences
6/19/2014
jamesofford wrote:
Nice to see that someone else has moved over to the Dark Side. I'm in an
>all Windows lab and it gets kind of lonely here.
>
>On the writing front-I have tried several different ...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Oops! Posted a quote from Stephen's post, but not my intended endorsement of it.
The only thing I'd add is that although Curio has no iOS portal, it does enable you to "plug in" Evernote, to which (p...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>On the other hand, Curio is a terrific program, which impresses me as
>the more powerful program on many levels. Just for example, you can
>affix a note to any figure in your...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
An interesting summary.
I agree Growly Notes is worth considering as a non-Microsoft, OneNote Lite option - if for no other reason than that its creator seems ready to attach his name, face and reput...
FoldingText 2.0...
6/9/2014
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
If anyone is interested, I wrote up some thoughts about FoldingText at
>my blog:
>
>http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/some-thoughts-about-foldingtext/
>
>Steve Z...
FoldingText 2.0...
6/4/2014
Perhaps, to be more accurate, I should have written: a simple, Markdown-based text editor with outliner features, for the Mac.
FoldingText 2.0...
6/4/2014
... has just been released by Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay Software: http://www.foldingtext.com. A simple, Markdown-based outliner for the Mac.
Dr Andus wrote:
>There is one more method still: dictation with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
>I did try it many times and have always reverted to typing in the end
>(though with the help of PhraseExp...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Hugh wrote:
>>Interesting! Several Mac task managers seem to be going or have
>recently
>>gone in the direction of graphically representing on a calendar when
>>you're pl...
Interesting! Several Mac task managers seem to be going or have recently gone in the direction of graphically representing on a calendar when you're planning to carry out your tasks, including the Gra...
Alexander, as you say, using time-logging software is another way of demonstrating to a manager what is possible and what is not. (At one employer I worked for, managers who expected more than was hum...
The above sounds more clear-cut and deterministic than I intended. Abbreviation tends to have that effect.
And of course, all managers prefer solutions rather than problems, answers rather than quest...
It sounds to me as if the issue is less about software, and more about psychology. Managing upwards is difficult; it's especially difficult if the person you're managing upwards is failing to manage d...
OT: Other MacBook users...
5/18/2014
Incidentally, I've found it quite useful to keep a 'memory-meter' app in my menu bar, which I employ both to keep an eye on how much memory I have in play, and to optimise it on occasion. I know there...