Franz Grieser
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OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/5/2014
Hi.
I hope it's only half off-topic: I am about to move more of my stuff over to Dropbox because sharing databases and manuscripts via USB sticks and keeping things up-to-date is getting more and mor...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
That's great. Thanks, Paul.
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
Hi there.
Is there a way to get Evernote notes to Devonthink (apart from copy&paste)?
Thanks, Franz
Mindscope via Reddit/r/productivity
8/23/2014
Thanks for the hint to foolness - and for the review to Stephen.
For those of us in Germany: Mindscope starts in German when you have set your iPad to German.
What I miss most is copy&paste (apart f...
For a limited time a number a apps - incl. Ulysses, Scrivener, Movei Draft, Final Draft, Acorn, Pixelmator - are available for half the price.
H Donleone
Thanks for bringing that up. It looks really interesting (judging from your screenshots and the tour on the website). I'll look into it next weekend.
First I was a bit cautious: Such a "mo...
More MacBook experiences
6/29/2014
Update re antivirus software:
A colleague of mine, an expert in computer security, recommended Sophos Antivirus Home Edition (which is free).
More MacBook experiences
6/28/2014
Thanks Jim (or John?)
I decided to go with 16 GB RAM because I plan to run one or two Windows VMs.
Re Outlook for Mac: In over 7 years writing about Outlook, I just have had 2 people asking questions...
More MacBook experiences
6/27/2014
A question to the Macinistas here. Not really outliner-related but maybe you could answer all the same:
What internet security tools (virus scanners, etc.) do you use?
Just got my Mac Mini with 16 GB...
Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers
6/25/2014
Another vote for a spreadsheet: Excel, LibreOffice Calc (open source), Numbers, ...
Freeplane - new release
6/18/2014
Jon Polish wrote:
>Instead of pressing Enter, try Insert. You want to create subtopics
>which will be arranged horizontally as Dr. Andus described.
Strange. I do that and end up with nodes arrange...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Thanks Stephen.
I plan to work on the project mainly on the Mac Mini. Curio (or MagicalPad) will be the place where I plan to do the planning and brainstorming. It will be a more visual thing than my...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Thanks for this post. I'll get my Mac Mini (no real need for a Macbook Air as I had thought) in the next few days and am looking forward to trying some of the apps you mentioned.
Have you tried Curio...
Freeplane - new release
6/18/2014
Strange. Doesn't work in the German edition. At least I found a way to add a free-form node (but no keyboard shortcut). But I'll uninstall Freeplane as I find it more cumbersome to use than Xmind 2013...
Freeplane - new release
6/18/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
>Sorry, what do you mean? I'm just using the default setup I think,
>except that I only allow nodes to go towards the right from the first
>main node, as opposed to going in all dir...
Freeplane - new release
6/17/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
>I use it in mind map mode (not outline mode) with nodes going from left
>to right, which effectively is a horizontal outliner. I like the
>horizontal layout because more can be see...
Dr Andus wrote:
>There is one more method still: dictation with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
>I did try it many times and have always reverted to typing in the end
>(though with the help of PhraseExpand...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/18/2014
Dottore.
I am not going to completely move over to Mac OS X. Part of my daytime job is writing a magazine on Outlook - as long as I do that, I will surely stick with Windows.
The Macbook Air is just ...
My 2 cents:
It's not a matter of tools (don't stone me for saying that).
The gazillion of tools I have tried are great at organizing urgent and important things. What they are not really good at is o...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/17/2014
Funny thing. I tried to get the hang of Ulysses before Scrivener came out. But didn't get it. I switched to Scrivener - but find myself using Scrivener mainly for structuring huge projects and for kee...
New iThoughts for iPad for $1.99
5/15/2014
Toketaware released a rewritten version of it's iPad mindmapping software iThoughts (more here: http://macsparky.com/blog/2014/5/ithoughts-for-ios-update-new-and-on-sale). For a limited period (the iT...
Evernote as a lifestyle service
4/19/2014
First I thought it was an April 1st joke. But they seem to be serious about it. And the comments on the page ...
OMG
Single Software for Info Collector (local/net) + Mind Manager + Password Manaager + Cataloger
4/14/2014
Hi.
Neither InfoSelect nor Zoot is a password manager such as 1Password, nor is either a mind mapping tool. OneNote isn't either.
Franz
Single Software for Info Collector (local/net) + Mind Manager + Password Manaager + Cataloger
4/9/2014
Hi.
There is no add-in to Outlook that integrates a free-form info collector such as Ultra Recall. But there is Microsoft OneNote that plays nicely with Outlook.
On the other side of the road, there...
Thanks for the clarification.
Franz