Skywatcher
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I like this new modern version ! It was really needed.
OmniOutliner 6 is out
1/7/2026
It’s a no-brainer, I upgraded. The columns feature is what makes it unique to me.
Taskade
11/21/2025
So, I guess this is another example of the Dead Internet Theory. This thread is basically just a bot that comes in and copy/pastes here everyday or so.
Good job, Bot.
Yeah, the columns is what makes it unique. You can even make calculations in them like a spreadsheet !( well , only summing the numbers in the column , but it’s still surprising for an outliner...
AI-infused
9/25/2025
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/openai-offers-20-million-user-chats-in-chatgpt-lawsuit-nyt-wants-120-million/
AI-infused
9/25/2025
Somehow, the idea of having a cloud LLM train on thousands of personal notes , and spitting them somewhere else to other users , even indirectly, doesn't excite me much. Cloud LLM's are another privac...
The interview touches on a lot of subjects, privacy, local vs cloud, AI, Crimping, etc…
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/760522/obsidian-ceo-steph-ango-kepano-productiv...
macosxguru wrote:
I tried to address your questions in:
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>Abandoned Software and Lock-in
>https://bicycleforyourmind.com/abandoned_software_and_lock_in
>#macOS #software
>
Interesting article, tha...
Skywatcher wrote:
Actually , as new releases of MacOS and iOS are traditionally announced
>( and beta released) at WWDC in June, but publicly released around
>October, that means the limited support...
Actually , as new releases of MacOS and iOS are traditionally announced ( and beta released) at WWDC in June, but publicly released around October, that means the limited support for Intel will begin ...
Andy Brice wrote:
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>I understand macOS 26 is not going to support Intel chips. So you won't
>be able to update that expensive Intel Mac you bought in 2020. It looks
>like Intel apps will continue t...
Lucine wrote:
Wait what, so mac apps don't work on older versions of macOS or iOS?
>This is total news to me, so
>>
No, they just changed the way they named their releases ( now by Year of release ...
Andy Brice wrote:
Speaking of Apple nuking everything from orbit, I give you macOS 26:
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>https://www.apple.com/os/
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>Its not clear to me yet what effect this is going to have on existing
>macOS ap...
I’d like to talk about a subject that has become quite important to me and gather your opinions on it.
Last year, it was announced that iThoughts was being terminated and abandoned by its deve...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Amontillado wrote:
>The AI stuff is worrisome, although the see-also functionality is really
>nice in DT3.
I share your concerns about the AI. There is no way I’m going to send my documents o...
MarginNote 4 is now available
5/19/2024
One issue that always prevented me from adopting MarginNote was that it only exports annotated PDF in a format that makes the highlights and notes unusable by other apps. It flattens everything. Some...
Amontillado wrote:
>Mellel is in Israel. There’s a free trial. It’s not a bad
>thing to support at the moment.
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Could we leave politics out of it though ? Cause there are also plenty o...
Another one goes subscription
8/22/2023
Bernhard wrote:
>So far, I've bought programs before, even though I don't necessarily use
>them all the time.
>I guess that will have to change in the future.
>Now I have to think hard about investi...
I'm still convinced that 1211 is a ChatGPT-like field experiment, testing the extremes of what can be done with pushing some parameters to the max. The devs must be laughing hard at our reactions to i...
Outlining and cloned entries
2/6/2023
Sounds like Tinderbox is exactly what you're looking for.
Standard Notes Free Trial Concern
11/24/2022
I used to be a paying customer of Standard Notes. My reason for using it was the emphasis on privacy. Until an buggy update locked me out of my account, leaving me with the only option of creating a n...
Current PIM state
1/18/2022
Ok
yED does that : https://www.yworks.com/products/yed and it's free.
Another option ( but Mac/iOS only and quite expensive) is Omnigraffle : https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
Both allow you to...
TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started
11/21/2020
@ Harlan :
- You're right regarding the note precedence behavior. I got confused in between the moment the feature was removed from v12 and ithe moment it was reinstated.
- In regards, to performance...
TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started
11/19/2020
@Harlan : also, I would say tha The Brain, has always been , by very far, the worst performer of any app I use. it has always been very inneficient in terms of processor power. on a MacbookPro with 2...