Lawrence Osborn
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- 5/22/2025
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Blackwell Idealist
5/22/2025
I take the point that even abandonware remains under copyright. But I think Idealist is a special case. Blackwell Scientific sold the rights to Bekon in the late 1990s. They attempted to develop it bu...
The timeline
4/6/2023
Actually, I think the technical term is logorrhea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhea_(psychology)). But seriously, like several other readers of this forum I do wonder how long we have go on hav...
Advice needed
10/10/2022
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am tempted by the virtual machine idea (particularly as I keep wondering about migrating to Linux and I know Idealist can be made to run in LInux with a little help f...
Advice needed
10/8/2022
Geoffrey,
That's interesting. For the avoidance of confusion, my machine is now running 64-bit W11pro version 22H2. As far as I know, the original executable won't work in 64-bit systems. Instead of a...
Advice needed
10/7/2022
The latest update to Windows 11 seems to have broken my favourite notekeeping program (Blackwell Idealist). I have managed to extract its contents in the form of Idealist Natural files (which are simp...
Blackwell Idealist
5/22/2020
That would be my blog. The original disappeared, and I never did get an explanation from the folk at Blogger. Anyway, its new incarnation is a Wordpress blog so hopefully more stable.
You won't find ...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
11/22/2017
A friend of mine has been beta-testing Scrivener 3 for the past few months, and he has now blogged a review of it, which some of you might find interesting: http://www.garygibson.net/2017/11/scrivener...
What is the oldest application you use?
11/8/2017
I too am still using Idealist 3 (though in my case it is the final iteration of that version from Bekon rather than Blackwell). It has worked flawlessly on every version of Windows from Windows for Wo...
Best program for lecture notes
6/9/2016
jbaltsar wrote in part:
>. . . I did it on hundreds of index cards (and I still
>have them somewhere in a box, after more than 20 years - try this with
>computer files)
That's precisely what I've don...
Best program for lecture notes
6/5/2016
I'm inclined to agree with the contributors who have suggested that pen and paper is still the best way to take notes during a lecture. The process of writing them up on the computer afterwards is a v...
Happy 20th Birthday Blackwell Idealist
11/16/2015
In fact http://osbloggery.blogspot.co.uk/ is my personal blog rather than a blog devoted to Idealist. There happen to be a few posts about Idealist on the blog because I am an Idealist addict. The set...
Happy 20th Birthday Blackwell Idealist
11/16/2015
Just checked the date of my version of Idealist 3: January 1999 (which I suspect makes it one of the last builds of that version). Definitely one of the great programs. Still going strong on a 64-bit ...
little red hen needs help
2/6/2014
Believe it or not, Blackwell Idealist ver.3 does work on the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (at least it does on my system). The program itself is 32-bit. Unfortunately the setup program in the Idealist ...
Your top 3 tools?
2/28/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>What are your top 3 (outliner, PIM, writing, note-taking) tools right now? Do they form a toolchain (fit in
>a workflow)?
Coming late to this: My top three pieces of software more or...
Foolness
What was the point you were trying to make? If there was one, it seems to have got lost in an incoherent rant!
I thought Hewson's article was interesting, though he seems to be surprisingly...
It certainly does look as if a new version of IdeaMason is on its way. And that is underlined by the fact that they are now giving away version 3.1 as an unlimited trial. According to the trial downlo...
Anyone else use XMind...?
12/2/2010
MadaboutDana wrote:
>So: does anybody else use XMind?
Yes, I have recently started using it for outlining book reviews and articles.
Yours
Lawrence
How to digitalize data?
5/4/2010
dan7000 wrote:
>I used to be a big fan of my "Infoscan" handheld scanner. It's like a big highlighter
>that you use to scan in individual lines of text. It does OCR on the fly and shows you the
...
So, what do you folks do?
5/3/2010
Franz Grieser wrote:
>
>What has become of it [Idealist]? I find a number of mentions on the web, but the Bekon
>site is offline.
>
Bekon folded some years ago, and Idealist is now as far as I kno...
So, what do you folks do?
5/2/2010
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>We're all on this forum because we share a passion for outlining and PIM software but
>I'm curious, what kind of work does everyone here do that requires this software?
...
I used Above and Beyond (http://www.1soft.com/) for many years. However, when they stopped updating it I changed to TimeTo (http://www.davidberman.com/software/timeto.php), which conveniently uses the...
Fredy
I tend to lurk on this forum without posting much, but your constantly negative posts have finally provoked me to poke my head above the parapet. If you can't think of anything constructive to ...
EverDesk on Bits
2/14/2009
Alexander,
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Yours
Lawrence
Hello
I have been reading this forum for some time now, but this is the first time I have posted. In response to Dominik's query about tools for managing the daily information stream, my main tools a...