Dr Andus
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Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/21/2015
Brad91 wrote:
>while emacs is a high mountain to climb, it is no
>harder
>to get started than ConnectedText.
>The problem is that
>the documentation is so extensive, rather than use-oriented. My appr...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
12/20/2015
Here is a screenshot that shows there is indeed folding in the forthcoming version of WriteMonkey:
https://mobile.twitter.com/writemonkey/media/grid?idx=0&tid=675830610762571776
Gingko
12/19/2015
dan7000 wrote:
>but to me it seems like Gingko does force a hierarchical organization.
Yes, you're right. I was saying it doesn't enforce a strict mind-mapping hierarchy (where you must have and̵...
Gingko
12/18/2015
MadaboutDana wrote:
>It appears to be a task management app based on a concept identical to
>that of Gingko.
Thanks for the heads-up. What makes you say it's an identical concept? From looking at the...
hansolo wrote:
>I didn't know one could
>combine Markdown into Workflowy
Here is an interesting post from Frank on how to preview Markdown in WorkFlowy:
http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/12/17/markdown...
A detailed example of an implementation of the Zettelkasten method using OneNote:
http://zettelkasten.de/posts/one-note-review/
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/16/2015
jaslar - many thanks for the detailed and interesting answer, much appreciated!
WriteMonkey gets better and better
12/14/2015
steveylang wrote:
>Wait, where is there reference to a Mac version?
The developer mentioned it on the WM forum. Here is the quote:
"The reason there has been no update for a while is that I am worki...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
12/13/2015
Hugh wrote:
>Echoes of Ulysses III?
I'm not familiar with Ulysses, so I don't know how it compares with WriteMonkey, but on the WM forum some Ulysses users said they were missing WM on Mac, so I'm ho...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
12/13/2015
Here is a screenshot for the forthcoming v. 3 of WriteMonkey. It looks like it is for the Mac version:
https://goo.gl/gjsgo1
It also looks like it has folding, inline comments, some other kind of ma...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>1. An excellent editor.
>2. The ability to annotate the text in a number of ways.
>3. A facility to save versions of the information -- you might want to
>refer to the original o...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/13/2015
jaslar wrote:
>it gives WriteMonkey a run for
>its money, too, but that's mainly (for me) because WriteMonkey doesn't
>do folding.
That might change in the forthcoming WriteMonkey v. 3, at least by t...
List of productivity methods
12/10/2015
I found this an informative list of productivity methods (make sure to click/scroll down to the fuller descriptions). It was interesting to identify 'wheels' I've reinvented for myself - didn't realis...
faustisch wrote:
I signed up... now I'm kinda ashamed.
Well, you can never know... Sometimes it's the risk takers that get the goodies. Let us know if you get any inside info.
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/8/2015
zoe wrote:
>I'm in the process of writing some blog posts about org-mode and why
>it's great. I'll post links here as they're written.
Great! Looking forward to reading them.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Because only a
>CRIMPer would actually provider his or her e-mail for the just the
>PROMISE of some exciting new note-taker.
I think CRIMPers are clever than that ;)
>Made me q...
Dr Andus wrote:
>What I didn't know was that you can have colour in WorkFlowy. The last
>few days I've been going crazy colour-coding my main projects and tasks
>and then organising them into groups b...
andante wrote:
>I've been looking for an outliner capable of:
>1. Using custom hierarchy/markup, i.e. being able to set the default
>markup for Level 1 items to "·", Level 2 to "—" etc.
>2....
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/1/2015
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>That said, I'm not sure I can bring myself to recommend it, especially
>on CRIMP central here. See, the thing about Emacs is that you can do
>almost *anything* with it by ma...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/1/2015
A discussion on Hacker News about the pros and cons of Org-mode. Apparently there are some issues with version updates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10629107
While I'm intrigued by the conce...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
11/30/2015
Hi (current and prospective) Org-mode heads,
I enjoy reading and am intrigued about your Org-mode adventures (though too time-poor to try it just yet for myself), so keep up the posts...
Building own knowledge database
11/26/2015
mahe wrote:
>Is there a good alternative to TreePad?
>I am planning to build my own knowledge database and I have a plenty of
>PDFs, snippets, text files, screenshots and voice memos.
This is not an ...
Part II of the WorkFlowy interview is worth reading as well, especially as it contains something of a roadmap (or at least a wishlist of the developers themselves):
http://blog.workflowy.com/2015/11/...
MindMup - New mind map app
11/19/2015
MindMup seems to have just introduced outline export in a number of formats:
"Create Markdown, Word/Google Writer and Text document outlines easily"
http://blog.mindmup.com/2015/11/create-markdown-w...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Let's not hold any illusions here: tools like Workflowy ... are
>not garage operations; not when they start serving tens of thousands of
>users who rely on these tools reg...