Dr Andus
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Another idea occurred to me about how to use index cards to ensure that key activities (and associated projects) are covered every day (or that one is compelled or reminded to do them), and am wonderi...
best outliner you use? (2018)
4/13/2018
Looks like this thread has turned into our usual annual review, so I'll add my reflections then.
I haven't started using any new software or service in the past year. If anything, I have been using f...
Ken wrote:
Moving out of the realm of this forum, I believe that acronym commonly
>used is GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
or retail therapy...
There are no reviews yet, but HP has just announced the world's first detachable Chromebook that also comes with a stylus, so it looks like Chrome OS (in combination with Android, as most of the dedic...
Hugh wrote:
I suspect that there are a number of pieces of hardware and quite a few
>pieces of software that will support the use of handwriting.
Yeah, but it's one thing to "support handwriting" and...
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I used Canson Papershow briefly,
> It requires a special paper with a grid that
>the pen could follow.
Oh, yeah, the ones using actual paper is another sub-category of this spa...
There seem to be more and more devices with styluses entering the market, and I was wondering where members of this community stand in this regard.
We have already had some discussion about it before...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
4/4/2018
Hmm. I took WM 3 beta for a spin, but didn't get very far (on Win 7, 64-bit). For some reason (might be a bug?) whenever I try to add a space to type the next word in a sentence, WM keeps indenting th...
Top down calander
4/3/2018
WorkFlowy's tags could be used for this as well, such as this implementation of Seinfeld's Don't Break the Chain method:
https://youtu.be/QaAeWI0JR_A?t=4m59s
But it would be a rather manual process.
Top down calander
4/3/2018
Dellu wrote:
I like this idea of Life Calendar:
>https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
>
>It makes me evaluate my life from the end to the current moment.
>
>Do you guys know any calendar ap...
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>> It wasn't entirely clear to me though whether these are handwritten
>notes or the pen makes changes digitally as if one
>>was using a keyboard (crossing ou...
Dr Andus wrote:
>It sounds like Samsung is at the forefront of this. I haven't looked
>into how iPad Pro performs in this respect. One day I would like to be
>able to use handwriting on the same machi...
WriteMonkey for Windows: Mac beta
3/31/2018
satis wrote:
http://writemonkey.com/wm3/
Looks like this update (3.0.5 Beta) is not just for Mac but also Windows and Linux.
MindManager back for Mac
3/24/2018
@NickG (and apologies for the off-topic post)
Thanks for sharing your experience. It confirms some of my suspicions about it. I've only just recently come across Office 365 in a corporate Windows en...
Move to bin
3/20/2018
jaslar wrote:
>I just discovered that Dynalist does this now, too (and has for a
>while). Ctrl-Shift-M (Move). Then you type the node name, a quick search
>pops up all the matches, and a return moves ...
MindManager back for Mac
3/20/2018
bartb wrote:
>MS is
>enjoying a lot of success with Office 365.
Maybe, but here is an interesting counterexample:
The Airbus CEO on why they chose Google G Suite instead of Office 365:
"He claimed ...
washere wrote:
># Nodes are in left pane column (usual outliner)
>
># Sub-nodes are in 2nd column (so clicking the node in first column
>refreshes 2nd column & shows sub-nodes for the highlighted/clic...
Karthik wrote:
By any chance do you have the exe file ?
Nope, sorry. It was taken down before I could try it. You could try to contact the developer.
Making lists from URLs
3/17/2018
Luhmann wrote:
>Chrome extensions don't work on iOS.
Neither do I work on iOS :)
As I said, I just email links to myself. I only use an iPod Touch, and it's for reading in confined spaces or public ...
Making lists from URLs
3/17/2018
Luhmann wrote:
>Yeah, I'd like to do something similar in Dynalist. But neither is
>really good enough for me just yet... Hopefully someday.
Seriously, check out the “Clip to WorkFlowy” ...
Making lists from URLs
3/17/2018
P.S. The advantage of using the aforementioned tools and 'system' is that there are many options for cross-linking items (to bridge the short, medium, long-term classification categories and software ...
Making lists from URLs
3/17/2018
@Luhmann
I think the issue here is whether you want to capture first and make a decision about the value (short, medium, or long-term) of the link later, or the other way round, decide the value, and...
Dark themes
3/10/2018
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Software I've turned to, or customised accordingly, includes the Dark
>Reader plugin for Chrome
Alexander,
Do you have any concerns about this Chrome extension spying on...
Dark themes
3/10/2018
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Further, statistics is one thing, individual cases are another. I see
>that the experiment used in total 9 subjects aged 17 to 31. I am 50,
>have always disliked fast-movi...
Paul Korm wrote:
There seems to be noticeable latency and flickering in the Ars Technica
>reviewer's video.
>
>Does anyone have an idea if the eInk technology can be upgraded or
>improved by software,...