Jack Crawford

Playing with GrandView 9/16/2009

Thanks for the various suggestions. I'll experiment with them and see how I go. I'm prepared to invest a reasonable (but not unlimited) amount of time ito see whether GV meets my writing/drafting ne...

Playing with GrandView 9/16/2009

A question for our resident GV experts (Derek & Cassius). The recent references to GrandView whetted my appetite (again) so I thought I would have another go at running v.2 under Win XP. I see from ...

Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note-taking software 9/5/2009

May I add one other concept to Alexander's excellent list - portability. A note taking application must be able to run independently on portable devices such as external USB drives. A question if I ...

Outlining superior to mind mapping for complex topics? 9/3/2009

The MindMap Navigator is just that - a navigation aid that sits alongside the mind map to jump to particular locations. You can't edit the outline itself. Most mind mappers do have an outlining or t...

OT: Acronis Disk Director 8/24/2009

Thanks for the various suggestions. I'll check them out. Jack

OT: Acronis Disk Director 8/22/2009

I notice that Bits has this on special in a few days. I'm thinking about ditching my copy of Partition Magic, now mothballed by Symantec after they bought it from PowerQuest (why do they do it?). D...

Summer 2009 PIM roll-call 8/4/2009

Thanks Jan, Pierre et al for the detailed responses. I'll work my way through them as soon as I get an opportunity. One final question, if I may .. Jan, I may have missed this in your earlier pos...

Summer 2009 PIM roll-call 8/4/2009

Jan Rifkinson wrote: >InfoQube - everything else: writing, >project planning, clipping, ToDo;s, Diary, Calendaring, research > >Life is simple. Hello Jan Would you care to say a little more on...

Summer 2009 PIM roll-call 8/2/2009

My list hasn't changed significantly since Novermber - My main usage at the moment is: . Outlook + ClearContext for email and task management . OneNote for agendas, drafts and personal storage . ...

Another program like KeyNote 7/27/2009

Have the KeyNote users here seen the latest evolution which takes over from the SourceForge project? May be of interest to some. http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/ Jack

What's new in OneNote 7/27/2009

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Any word about whether or not OneNote 2010 will run under Windows XP? > >Steve Z. Steve According to Microsoft: "Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and...

A new option for Project Management in Outlook 7/25/2009

Ken Just to add to the Dan's comments above. I've used the program intensively for two years at work in an email heavy environment (100+ per day). I've never had a crash or any instability. Outloo...

A new option for Project Management in Outlook 7/24/2009

>I searched after I posted and saw your post. This >program looks interesting as well. My biggest challenge will most likely be our IT >staff. I work in municipal government, and we are limited ...

A new option for Project Management in Outlook 7/23/2009

Ken If you are in the market for appropriate Outlook add-ins, may I recommend Clear Context. http://www.clearcontext.com/ I couldn't live without it. The task management in particular is excellent...

What's new in OneNote 7/22/2009

Users here of Microsoft OneNote may be interested in the recent announcement of what's in OneNote 2010. Details have been posted here on the blog of David Rasmussen, the Group Program Manager on the ...

== Note-Taker Software--The Missing Piece == 6/23/2009

And OneNote's outlining capabilities are rudeimentary. Jack

== Note-Taker Software--The Missing Piece == 6/22/2009

Chuck If I understand your request clearly, OneNote has this feature. Copy a section of text 'copy as hyperlink to this paragraph". Paste link into new note. Clicking on link takes you back to the...

Notemap 6/22/2009

The other problem with Notemap is the "send to Word" functionwhich is buggy (and reproducible). Save as RTF is safer. See http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/1218 for further info. Jack

15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management 6/12/2009

Wow! That's quite some list. There are several there that I had not even heard of .... and they are free! I'll have a play and report back if something really grabs me. Jack

Mindsystems Amode 5/13/2009

I downloaded the trial version of ThemeReader. On using the program (with MindManager 8) I received an error message "invalid server response". I see that this is a relatively common issue. I tried...

Outlook plugin that looks genuinely useful 4/21/2009

For me the value of the various Outlook plugins on the market depend on exactly what you are looking for - do you want a simpler interface or quicker searching or improved connectivity with particular...

Web Outliner? 3/29/2009

This isn't really my area, but I just wanted to point to the online version that Inspiration is developing at http://www.mywebspiration.com. While it is still in beta, it looks very powerful - virtua...

New developments with PageFour 3/10/2009

I've just noticed that version 1.70 of this classy piece of writing software has been released. (www.softwareforwriting.com) Even more enticing is the comment on the blog of the developer, Darren De...

TreeSheets 3/1/2009

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Jack, > >So it was you who asked for the MS Word export feature (through HTML)? Yes Alex, I plead guilty. Quick export to Word has been one of my obsessions with the ...

TreeSheets 2/24/2009

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Wouter -- TreeSheets' developer -- responded quickly to my suggestions and is kindly >implementing all of them. I think he was already planning to introduce the ability to >a...

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