tightbeam
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- Member since
- August 2008
- Topics started
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- 5/23/2025
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ShareMouse Reviews
11/30/2013
ShareMouse: I hope you realize that the impenetrable (both in motivation and in meaning) posts of 22111 are atypical of the useful, professional, and comprehensible posts typically found here.
Sticky notes for Windows - Notezilla
11/18/2013
I don't feel "cheated" by Notezilla. It's quality software, and the developer (Gautam) gets points for his polite, helpful reply to needlessly rude comments.
Gingko
10/13/2013
When I logged in to my Gingko account just now, a window popped up offering the first 500 takers a lifetime subscription for $39. That's a considerable savings (depending on lifespan) over the standar...
Google Reader
4/12/2013
It takes some work, but this is a feasible way to take total control of your newsreader - by building your own:
http://lifehacker.com/5992404/how-to-build-your-own-syncing-rss-reader-with-tiny-tiny-r...
Greplin power search
8/24/2011
Nice find, indeed! It works as advertised, and blazingly fast.
I agree with Alexander.
Though I've ignored the recent exchange about Cyborganize, it's reminds me that a system meant to lighten my life shouldn't freight it with so much detail!
Are you aware that some of those quotes are ten years old? (One from Alexander I traced back to a C/Net comment dated 2004.) It's common practice to include the date of a testimonial with the text so ...
Despite being turned off by the claim that Cyborganize will be 'bigger than Facebook' (it won't, and the claim undermines your efforts), I tried to comprehend its value by watching your video and read...
PhraseExpress: very awkward license
8/30/2010
I have to agree with Jason that these licensing terms are awkward and seem to penalize (some) honest commercial users.
Your Shop page states: "Enjoy the benefits of the full version and choose your p...
Help Finding Correct Software
8/29/2010
Thanks, everyone, for the good suggestions.
I've decided to use something I already have (and which should have come to mind immediately): ListPro.
Help Finding Correct Software
8/29/2010
Thanks for the suggestions.
I did try Excel and would prefer a spreadsheet to organize my data, but I'm hoping to find something with a subset of Excel's functionality. Something like this:
http://s...
Help Finding Correct Software
8/28/2010
I need the 'minimum app' capable of doing a specific job.
I recently launched a website (DisneyDispatch.com) that has several daily updates. Each update has a category and a title. The site is only t...
I was referring to its normal price of $49.95, and yes, that's too high for what it does (that's the important part - *for what it does*). ConnectedText is $10 cheaper and does much more.
quant wrot...
For my needs it's perfect. Depending on the project, a text-based organizer is plenty, and anything more would just get in the way.
The real problem with Personal Knowbase is its cost. Even discount...
I hope this otherwise interesting thread isn't going to devolve into a pissing contest.
I don't think anyone really cares about the actual dollar amount for software that few of us are going to buy.
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Ariadne Has New Developer
3/14/2010
I had the same problem. I hope he'll replace the current installer with a working copy soon.
An interesting view on the merits of full-featured, 'complex' software like Zoot, UR, etc., versus stripped-down but simpler-to-use software like TkOutline, MemPad, etc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Lightweight Data Tagger
1/15/2010
Alexander - Evernote would probably work but it's way too 'heavy' for my limited task. I liked Tobu, initially, because it took up very few system resources and quickly opened with a hotkey. CintaNote...
Lightweight Data Tagger
1/15/2010
I'm referring (in this case) to restaurants, each of which I'd like to tag with such identifiers as cuisine type, price range, location, etc., etc., so that I could quickly retrieve lists of restauran...
Lightweight Data Tagger
1/14/2010
I'm trying to do something very simple that, of course, has turned out to be kind of hard.
I have a list of ~400 items. I want to tag each item with a series of descriptive words and then instantly p...
Man in Search of a Method
4/9/2009
John,
>True, The Journal is not plain text. It does RTF, but I'm not hard-core enough to hold
>that against any program (although I've never used the formatting options).
My fetish for plain text i...
Man in Search of a Method
4/7/2009
JohnK wrote:
>When I recently tried out a variety of plain-text tools for drafting long documents, I
>settled on The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/)
It looks nice, but it's not strictl...
Man in Search of a Method
4/6/2009
I've obsessively been seeking a simple, efficient method for the simple, efficient construction of technical 'how-to' books.
My 'suite du jour' consists of TkOutline, Stick, AceText, Q10, and EditPad...
Ideaweaver
9/2/2008
Has anyone used Ideaweaver?
http://www.ideaweaversoftware.com/
Opinion?
Outliner to Import RTF, Export CHM
8/28/2008
I'd like to find a simple, lightweight outliner that will let me import multiple RTF files and then export them all as a single CHM.
I know that TreePad and MyNotesKeeper have that capability.
Are t...