Hugh
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A word about Tinderbox: although Tbx can be used for data management, such a use wouldn't be playing to its strengths. In a workflow, I think it's best used for either "creating by jotting down random...
Bernhard wrote:
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>>The hurdle to overcome is downloading the "zip" version of
>>Textanz and the
>editing the "gui.sh"
>> and then saving it with line endings set to "LF"
>>and not
>"CRLF" (...
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Hugh.
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>Actually, I have a license for Textanz, too, which I do use when writing copy
>for my customers or for my websites.
>If found its creator very helpful when I had to
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Smartword - a free tool for all writers
7/31/2012
Franz, thank you.
The six checks run by the Pro version look as if they will be particularly useful. There's a strand of thinking that says that software like this isn't necessary, is no substitute f...
Reviews of OneNote vs. other outliners
7/20/2012
Interesting, Steve.
For no very good reasons, I'd always regarded OneNote highly. Having read your review I've revised my opinion. It's an interesting moment too, as MS appear to be pushing OneNote a...
Jot Plus Notes -- moribund
6/23/2012
Moribund.com made me laugh.
But in all seriousness, doesn't a developer have to have a very distinctive offering to make any headway in achieving sales beyond us crimpers today? And isn't it likely t...
About This Particular Macintosh
5/26/2012
Anybody trying to learn more about PIMs on the Mac is likely to have come across aptm, especially in the days when Ted Goranson was contributing a column. I first learnt about Tinderbox, DevonThink, a...
Mind mapping vs. Venn diagrams
5/23/2012
Slightly OT but related to Steve's post above: Tinderbox now has the facility to import directly from Scrivener (Mac version), with a lot of Scrivener's meta-data intact. Useful for analysis; it may a...
My review of VoodooPad 5.0...
5/23/2012
Steve, many thanks.
Another very useful review. (My - previously cursory - opinion of VP has been turned on its head.)
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Chapter by chapter rules!
5/7/2012
I lost work using MS Word. It usually happened when I was re-ordering chunks within files amounting to 20,000-plus words, and when the Document Map was involved.
There used to be a useful website gi...
Best PIM for project management?
5/5/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>Any long-term users of
>Pagico out there with more insight into its project management capabilities?
I notice some criticism on Mac Update of technical support; the developers s...
Another one bites the dust?
4/26/2012
I'm sorry if ndxcards has bitten the bullet. For me it was its particular combination of index cards and rudimentary outliner that held promise.
I'm also sorry if IdeaMason, resurrected, has gone. It...
Best PIM for project management?
4/23/2012
Hugh wrote:
>I've used Merlin, and it's certainly very good indeed for small to medium-sized
>projects. The people who developed it are, as far as I know, project management
>specialists, and star...
Best PIM for project management?
4/23/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Hugh wrote:
>>Most fundamentally, the application didn't have quite
>>enough
>project management features for me; it couldn't tell me, for example, where
>>the
>slac...
Best PIM for project management?
4/23/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Hugh wrote:
>>I've looked for this
>>extensively and I've found several half-there
>alternatives, such as Pagico.
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>Can you tell me what's missing from Pagico in th...
Best PIM for project management?
4/22/2012
I've used Merlin, and it's certainly very good indeed for small to medium-sized projects. The people who developed it are, as far as I know, project management specialists, and started Merlin as a sid...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/16/2012
By the way, IIRC in the computer versus "less efficient methods" debate, Will Self comes down firmly on the side of typewriters, despite earning his living as a fiction writer and occasional journalis...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/16/2012
I've posted this series of images before, but because it's relevant to this discussion, here it is again:
http://www.will-self.com/writing-room/
More wall acreage, less (overt) system.
CRIMPing makes it big time
4/13/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Bravo Steve; recognition well deserved!
> My view too.
To Steve's excellent list, I'd add the following:
Two heavyweight applications for specific jobs:
Omnifocus (task manager)
iBank (personal finance)
A nice free simple word processor:
Bean
Back-up:
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ConnectedText vs. Scrivener
3/6/2012
Steve, you haven't asked for suggestions on this, and so it may be invidious to contribute, but anyway if it's helpful here's mine.
I'd use Word for this job. Currently there are no better tools for ...
ConnectedText vs. Scrivener
3/6/2012
Steve, as an aside, would more RAM do the trick? I run Parallels on a Mac Mini, and I've been surprised (a) how much cheaper third-party RAM is than Apple's offering, dramatically so - IIRC I bought m...
Evernote and Curio
2/29/2012
I've occasionally used Evernote as a conduit into Curio, and I endorse what Steve says.
It sounds as if you're only interested in a partner for Evernote on Windows, but just in case you or anybody el...
Writing tools for complex storytelling
2/23/2012
Flying Logic? Plotting fiction or faction isn't what it was designed for, but I've used it for that purpose, and it fits the purpose quite well. It's good at tracing multiple, branching and re-combini...
Crimping in the 80s and 90s
2/1/2012
Ah Sidekick! According to Wikipedia: "Long time users of Sidekick 98 report no difficulties continuing to use the program through subsequent iterations of Windows, up to and including Windows 7." Howe...