Hugh
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PIM for Ipod Touch?
5/31/2011
I use OmniFocus on my Mac and on my iPod.
Pros:
- they do what they say on the tin
- they're flexible, so that you can use them for most task-management purposes, GTD or not
- they're actively suppor...
Software for Authors
5/20/2011
critStock wrote:
>
>Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>>Hugh wrote:
>>>I'm sure there's a simple division
>here between fiction and
>>non-fiction writers.
>>>Fiction writers may be able to
>get away w...
Software for Authors
5/20/2011
Gary Carson wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, why does your son have to submit each chapter as a separate file?
>I'm a fiction writer myself with an agent and I've never heard of a requirement like
>...
Software for Authors
5/19/2011
I'm sure there's a simple division here between fiction and non-fiction writers. Fiction writers may be able to get away without using MS Word (although round-tripping documents with an editor without...
Software for Authors
5/17/2011
An interesting and unresolvable issue - except on the basis of "horses for courses", "diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks", "each to his own", I suspect.
One can happily waste an immense amount of ...
Well done, Steve. Now for the book...? ;)
It seems to me that that statement from the new developers has been written with a degree of skill and sensitivity. It's a good start.
It's ironic that only a few weeks ago some of us were writing he...
My review of Tinderbox
4/29/2011
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Hugh, yes,
>"Monsters" is a nice surprise. A low-budget, science fiction thriller that's also a
>great allegory. Of course, "Monsters" could be the subtitle for the documenta...
My review of Tinderbox
4/28/2011
I've been looking forward to this review. The anticipation was justified. Thanks Steve! (And I note I should go and see "Monsters"!)
When I switched to the Mac not long after you, Journler seemed to be very popular, not only for journalling but also for use as an all-purpose information store. It seemed a very clean, solid, good-lo...
Tools for the writing process
3/27/2011
I agree with these pints of view. It isn't worthwhile to search for the single tool that will always do all that you need. It doesn't work for carpenters, painters and dentists and it's unlikely to wo...
Powerpoint slide library
3/21/2011
www.slidebank.com
I think. Interesting, though.
InfoMason?
3/21/2011
MenA,
I hope you find IdeaMason useful. I was sorry to see it abandoned. It had certain advantageous functionality for writing that wasn't widespread at the time when it was under active development....
historical timeline modelling
3/8/2011
Are you working on a Mac or PC?
On the Mac there are several dedicated timeline applications that could probably do what you want, of which the best may be BeeDocs: http://www.beedocs.com/index.php
...
Mac.AppStorm carried a comprehensive review of Pagico last May: http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/productivity-review/pagico-gtd-notes-and-contacts-together-at-last/
Although it makes a feature of its ...
Ipad
1/10/2011
In this article http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/07/can-you-really-revise-a-book-on-your-ipad/#more-6685, the author David Hewson semi-recommends PDF Expert for his purposes. And waiting for the iPad 2,...
My Scrivener 2.0 review
12/13/2010
I haven't downloaded the Windows beta, but as an owner of Version 2 of Scrivener for the Mac and an observer of the development of the Windows version, I'd make the following points in an effort to pr...
My Scrivener 2.0 review
12/10/2010
Thanks Steve.
I found the review informative and useful even though I use Scrivener for hours every day. And in my view the application fully deserves the rating you give it.
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Update: here's a good, fair-minded review of Scrivener 2 by the thriller author David Hewson: http://davidhewson.com/2010/11/03/some-brief-thoughts-on-scrivener-2-0/#more-6089
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Scrivener 2.0 for the Mac has now been out for 24 hours. It really is a very good writing tool. I thought it would be hard to improve on 1.x, but 2.0 achieves that in substantial ways: for example, fr...
Curio review up at Mac AppStorm
10/28/2010
Thanks, Steve. I've got an older version of Curio, so found the review very informative.
Two thoughts/questions:
- I agree, an "index" or "master" idea space would be extremely useful (although, I i...
Computer vs. typewriter vs. long hand
10/28/2010
Many thanks for the link, Steve - very interesting.
Here's one to a recent piece by Michael Bywater: "Everything starts with the pen": http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/e...
Hope you'll still get your review of Curio out into the public domain, Steve. I for one will be interested to read it.
Tomorrow a beta version of Scrivener for Windows is to be released, with the launch of the paid-for version in early 2011. It's described as very similar to the current version (1.54 I think) of Scriv...
OmniOutliner Review
10/8/2010
An excellent, comprehensive review by Steve Z. here:
http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/office-review/ideas-live-and-breed-in-omnioutliner/