Hugh
Veteran
500 Club
Conversation Starter
- Member since
- April 2008
- Topics started
- 15
- Total posts
- 837
- Last active
- 3/2/2021
Posts
Beck wrote:
Paul Korm wrote:
>>collect less dreck
>
>Well stated.
Yes, I agree the dreck is a problem. Whilst I remain a fan of OmniFocus (and aware that it does have tools for separating the drec...
Aquaminds Notetaker
1/18/2019
Presumably, Aquaminds in this new version will no longer be targeted at the education market.
New Ulysses features coming
1/17/2019
Have just found this fairly recent discussion by Australian author and blogger Chris Rosser of whether OmniOutliner and Ulysses can be made to talk fruitfully to each other: https://chrisrosser.net/po...
New Ulysses features coming
1/15/2019
satis wrote:
>
>Hugh wrote:
>
>>But I'm an unreconstructed plotter; I like to plan, and Ulysses
>>currently has virtually no features for doing so (which is slightly
>odd,
>>for a tool designed for...
Lucas wrote:
>
>Hugh wrote:
>One type of task manager that I think nobody has mentioned is the type
>>that not only lists your tasks but also schedules them in the working
>>day. When I used Window...
New Ulysses features coming
1/14/2019
I have criticisms of both Bear and Ulysses.
I like Bear's design. But I don't like its substitution of tags for a traditional folder and files hierarchy. It's fundamental for me that long-term I can ...
Paul Korm wrote:
Pagico - one way, read only from the calendar side via iCloud (I think).
>
>DropTask - two way, read and write from the calendar side via Google
>Calendar.
>Curio - one way, read o...
One type of task manager that I think nobody has mentioned is the type that not only lists your tasks but also schedules them in the working day. When I used Windows, there were several available (the...
OmniFocus - because of its version of start dates (essential for the types of tasks I have), its flexibility and its "hinterland" of learning materials, AppleScripts and third-party inter-operative ap...
Any way to PM users here?
12/12/2018
Paul Korm wrote:
Excellent, Chris. Editng spelllling mystakes gets my top vote! Thank
>you for this forum and everything you do for this community.
>
>Chris Murtland wrote:
>>Also, it wouldn't be...
I became interested in TagSpaces because I use Finder Tags extensively in my (Mac) file system and there remain very few actually useful file-tagging applications available for macOS. I found that, un...
Organizing correspondence
12/9/2018
Jeffery Smith wrote:
In the early 90s, Symantec made a wonderful program called ACT! that
>managed all of my letters and memos and contacts. Since then, everything
>seems to be way more expensive, w...
Very interesting. Thank you for the news, Dr A.
For what it's worth, the Snowflake Method of planning and plotting novels, used here, originated with a novelist-scientist called Randy Ingermanson: ht...
Franz Grieser wrote:
Working on the iPad?
>I use mine for reading (Kindle and PDFs) and notetaking. But sorely miss
>a decent keyboard (and I tested some of them).
Have you tried a Brydge keyboard...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I am wondering what others think?
>
>Steve Z.
I do like the iPad Pro for work, but in certain relatively narrow ways.
I like handwriting, and that's the main use I've made o...
The application and the experience surrounding its development sound very interesting, Steve - and many thanks for highlighting them.
For those interested in the development of tablets as potential r...
Paul Korm wrote:
>
>Anyway, responsive to @Dellu's thoughtful post, I'd say: just as there's
>no set of objective rules about developing one's personal body of
>knowledge, there's no prescriptive a...
Promising new notes app
12/3/2018
MadaboutDana wrote:
UpNote continues to improve: now includes support for Markdown, which it
>turns into instant rich text. This includes checkboxes (created using a
>simple [], rather than the more...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Thank you for bringing this interesting video series to our attention,
>Paul. I love seeing how people use Tinderbox. It's the best way to learn
>the software, I think.
>
>Steve...
Taking handwritten notes on digital devices
11/20/2018
Dr Andus wrote:
>
>... I think my problem with Nebo was that it actually distracted me from
>the process of thinking, as I focused too much on the tool and getting
>the words spelled right etc. So ...
Taking handwritten notes on digital devices
11/20/2018
Dr Andus wrote:
>I have also invested in Myscript Nebo to transform my handwriting into
>typewritten text, but it's been disappointing so far, as I found that I
>could type just as fast if not fast...
To do tracking in Microsoft Word
11/9/2018
This sounds as if it could be useful in writing long-form - though the degree to which it is so will I'm sure depend on the implementation. (Over the years it's been an occasional request on the Scriv...
Lotus Agenda
10/31/2018
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
>Hugh wrote:
>
>> Unlike
>>the PIM from Threadz, which I think was created just down the road from
>>where I then lived and which I found very useful indeed. I remember
>>Lot...
Lotus Agenda
10/31/2018
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Maybe we should call that RetroCRIMP.
!!! I didn't have the good fortune to use More or Grandview or the other "archetypal" outliners sometimes mentioned here. But I did buy an...
Nisus Writer
10/24/2018
Lucas wrote:
Version 3 was just released, with significant enhancements:
>
>https://www.nisus.com/pro/releasenotes/releasenotes300.php
Thanks for this news. I wasn't otherwise aware of it.