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Dr. Andus, thanks for the suggestions, but I use PDF-Xchange daily and have tried Agent Ransack in the past. Both of them do the job more or less, but they are rather slow because of the lack of index...
This discussion is way over my head, as usual, but I'll try to respond briefly. As I understand it, RightNote uses method B in your list. In other words, it imports and indexes the underlying plain te...
You've used much more inflammatory language than I would, and I confess I don't have the time or patience to go through each of your complaints. But I would basically agree with you that RightNote is ...
Next version of MyInfo
1/11/2014
I'm rather late in spotting this, but I've just noticed that when MyInfo was on sale on BitsDuJour in December, Petko offered a few interesting details about version 7 of MyInfo, which he says will be...
I've recently begun using the iPad Air with a Logitech Ultrathin keyboard cover. It's a pricey combination, but it seems to work well -- much better than iPad keyboards I've used in the past.
Just a...
How to compare MyInfo and AskSam
12/22/2013
I'm sure the others here are bored by this disagreement between us. Let's just conclude by saying that we see MyInfo differently.
Bill (no longer a professor, incidentally)
How to compare MyInfo and AskSam
12/22/2013
Well, the only reasonable conclusion is that we had completely different experiences. I have been an extremely heavy user of MyInfo for a number of years, and I did not encounter most of the problems ...
How to compare MyInfo and AskSam
12/21/2013
My experience with MyInfo has been quite different. I've used it for many years and have always found it extremely stable. I don't think I've ever lost any data in it. It's true that there are often m...
For whatever it's worth, I can report that links to Evernote work smoothly in MyInfo.
MyInfo 6.2 has been released this past week, incidentally. The update, among other things, makes it easier to cus...
Evernote 5 is here
10/11/2013
I agree. I admire the cleverness and resourcefulness of the Evernote folks. I'm just grateful that in producing software with mass appeal, they have also slowly modified and improved EN so that it is ...
Evernote 5 is here
10/10/2013
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
I am quite certain that
>neither Phil Libin, the Evernote CEO, nor any of his top bras have
>thought about this use--at least not seriously considered it.
I have long ...
Evernote 5 is here
10/10/2013
It's interesting that several of you are protesting that what I am proposing to do can't be done: assemble a large body of material in Evernote and transform it into a book. I'll let you know eventual...
Evernote 5 is here
10/9/2013
Just for the record, I have 18,753 notes in Evernote, many of them created back when it was a Windows-only program (i.e. pre-2008). I have only begun using EN again on a serious scale within the last ...
Evernote 5 is here
10/9/2013
I'm in the midst of writing a book with all of my notes in Evernote. I of course use tags and careful note-naming practices, but I am falling back mainly on "outline notes" in which I create rather pr...
Clones? Cross-referencing?
10/6/2013
I can't recall the exact context of my remarks about Rightnote now, but I think what I said was that RN allows "virtual notes," an attractive feature apparently inherited from Keynote. The virtual not...
speech to text to notetaking app
9/17/2013
My recollection (admittedly a bit hazy) is that in OneNote you can type notes and simultaneously record; then afterwards you could go to a particular place in the notes and hear the relevant part of t...
I agree that OneNote's text-extraction capabilities are superior to those of Evernote, and in general I admire OneNote very much. I used an earlier version of it for about a year. I think my main misg...
Yes, both Evernote and OneNote can recognize text in images, and that's a strong argument for using either of them. I think this is an indispensable element in a good note-taking program. Of course th...
I have no problem getting sharp pictures with my iPhone, though it helps to use an app with an anti-shake option.
As I said earlier, I move my photos into Evernote, which has a supplementary program ...
I just did a quick little experiment. I photographed the same page (an old book, poorly printed) in Evernote's Page Camera and in CamScanner; then I allowed Evernote enough time to recognize the text ...
Jim,
What I failed to mention is that CamScanner automatically compensates for skew. There are a number of apps similar to CamScanner (I used JotNot, for example, for several months last year), and t...
askSam dead?
9/12/2013
Daly, my recent experiences closely parallel yours. I have used MyInfo for a number of years and have great affection for it. My last book was built entirely upon notes, outlines, and drafts created i...
Better Bookmarking?
8/27/2013
Like Garland, I use mainly the Chrome bookmark bar and Evernote.
The main advantage of the Chrome bar is that it's extremely quick and easy to use -- and always visible. (And of course it syncs very ...
Advice on research software
8/17/2013
I've tried various kinds of note-taking software through the years for writing books, but at the moment Evernote is my preferred solution. Just last week, for example, I was studying a large body of a...
Rightnote and Evernote
4/17/2013
I'm certainly not ready to take the plunge on Rightnote, but I do think it's worth watching.
May I offer a somewhat cynical dissent about "synthesis" (which seems to be increasingly the Holy Grail of...