Dr Andus
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Gingko
12/30/2013
Lucas wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>A 9 min. video case study on using Gingko for academic writing: "Using
>>Gingko to Do the Single Method of Academic Writing"
>
>Excellent video -- thank you!
You're welc...
Gingko
12/30/2013
A 9 min. video case study on using Gingko for academic writing: "Using Gingko to Do the Single Method of Academic Writing"
http://youtu.be/FdX2ovE4qV0
Meta trends - what have we learned?
12/27/2013
jimspoon wrote:
>But I will throw in one thing that interest me - look at the prices of
>mobile apps. $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, $4.99 etc. I guess simplictiy of the
>apps = low development costs, and wit...
Meta trends - what have we learned?
12/24/2013
jaslar wrote:
Hello jaslar,
good summary and interesting analysis!
>All of you are constantly on the alert for new tools. (That would
>be CRIMPing!) But what are you seeing about the evolution of t...
Productivity app: Progress Bars of Life
12/23/2013
The latest beta for PBOL has added a neat feature called Zeno Alerts, whereby an alert window pops up and a sound effect plays every time the set time reaches its half point (i.e. at 50%, then 50% of ...
Workflowy: Your Brain on One Page
12/18/2013
MadaboutDana wrote:
Interesting, but strikingly like UV-Outliner in terms of functionality.
>Personally, I prefer off-line outliners
Workflowy now also has an off-line desktop app, but you need to ha...
It sounds to me like you may have some contradictory requirements. On the one hand, you want to use PDF because it preserves format and it's ubiquitous. On the other, you want to do real-time collabor...
TheBrain as file manager?
12/16/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>hi Jorge, check this list (though it's arguable):
>Freeplane (it's predecessor, Freemind tops the AlternativeTo list)
>
>Perhaps less obviously, but ConnectedText can also be used fo...
TheBrain as file manager?
12/16/2013
Jorge Watanabe wrote:
>I am thinking about buying TheBrain only to use its great file
>management capabilities (mind mapping features, although great too,
>aren't necessary for my work).
hi Jorge, ch...
White board software
12/11/2013
tyto: web-based variation on the corkboard and post-it concept. It's an early-stage product (more like an alpha), so I wouldn't put anything precious in it, but maybe it's something to watch:
http://...
Dr Andus wrote:
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>...and here:
>>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1628467
>Dominik, thanks for that. Just came across that page myself. So, no
>offline spreadsheet acce...
P.S. Having done a quick search on the CT forum, it turns it linking between Evernote and CT does work both ways. But it's necessary to add the evernote:// protocol to CT's protocol file, as Jerry had...
Jerry wrote:
>Did you add Evernote to the CT list of protocols supported by the $URL
>command? Supported protocols are listed in the file protocols.txt in the
>ConnectedText directory. This is documen...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>There seems no synergy at all between Evernote and CT. I couldn't drag a
>note into a CT topic. And when I tried to paste a URL, it only pasted
>the note title.
Thank you for ch...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> If you drag a note from your Evernote
>desktop application into TheBrain, it creates a link back to the note.
>Clicking on it opens EN and that specific note.
> However, if you ...
New Win8 Outliner
12/7/2013
Eugene Akinshin wrote:
>My name is Eugene Akinshin, I'm co-founder of the Perpetuum Software and
>Aphalina. One of our customers send me link to this topic.
>
>Yes, we are relatively big company (almo...
Franz Grieser wrote:
@Steve and Dr. Andus.
>Is it possible to drag&drop Evernote notes into TheBrain or
>ConnectedText. Or - instead of notes - links to Evernote notes?
Sorry Franz, I don't have Ever...
notbalok wrote:
In your opinion, what is the best application running on PC (mobile and
>cloud are only options, not essential) and compatible with internet
>browsers (it can capture web contents) tha...
Pimlical
12/5/2013
There is now also a direct way to download Google Calendar data (Gmail download wasn't available to me at least just now, though I could download my Google Contacts):
"Download a copy of your Gmail a...
New Win8 Outliner
12/4/2013
DataMill wrote:
I don't believe that Alphalina makes a separate desktop version.
Oh, really? I've never tried Win8 but after all that MS talk about having the same OS for PCs and tablets I just assum...
PhraseExpress wrote:
>Have you successfully tried to import the file just to simulate what
>happens with multiple similar words?
I haven't tried this particular file but I have imported other large l...
New Win8 Outliner
12/3/2013
DataMill wrote:
There's a new single pane outliner in the Win8 App Store called Mind
>Outliner by Alphalina. It seems pretty decent and notably can open and
>export to OPML. It has various themes an...
PhraseExpress wrote:
>Indeed, this is a completely different and pretty much time-consuming
>approach. Our customer feedback tells us that not many users are willing
>to entertain such enormous effort...
Dr Andus wrote:
PhraseExpress wrote:
>>Video demo with a 22,000
>>words library:
>>http://youtu.be/PpH23B_qqso
>
>1) I didn't have any problems with importing with PhraseExpander so far,
>so I'm not ...
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Don't you understand that a user wants software to work this way: When
>the user does A, he wants the software to reliably do B. He doesn't want
>it to do C and then the next tim...