Dr Andus
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White board software
5/24/2013
Story Turbo is now free:
http://www.storyturbo.com/
They are also trialling a web-based version, but I found it buggy for now:
http://storylive.com
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
5/23/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>I'll need to play a bit more with B-liner, but for now it seems
>expensive at USD89.95. I've also just received a "special" (?) offer
>for a Mindjet perpetual license for GBP238.80, ...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
5/23/2013
Hugh wrote:
>Tinderbox has its 'treemap' view, which is vertical in the sense you
>describe above. I've never used this view, because its outline, timeline
>and map views are much more useful.
Alexan...
Someone brought it to my attention recently that the Bonsai website is not working:
http://www.natara.com/bonsai/
Does anyone know what is up with them? I do hope the site will come back to life. It...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
5/12/2013
Gary Carson wrote:
Outliner 4D is basically a combination of a traditional outliner with an
>index card view. It's a good idea, but it doesn't work that well in
>practice. The outliner's OK, but the i...
Is it such a bad thing though to have different tools for different jobs? It's a normal fact of life in most professions.
Perhaps the issue with PIM software (and the computer as a desktop/workbench/...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I would agree that there are a lot of similarities between mind mappers
>and outliners, but there is one significant distinction, I think. That
>is, in an outline there is an imp...
Alex wrote:
> I don't like mind maps. I don't
>know if I should try them so it can help me to develop more the creative
>side of the brain. What do you think?...
I don't see a big distinction between...
Two points. First, I think that outlining is a very big category, and within that there are quite different thought processes accommodated (from note-taking, brainstorming, organising, analysing, synt...
GrandView on VMWare 7 on Vista64
5/3/2013
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Glad you wrote that, Dr Andus. UV Outliner might be a fine, stand alone
>outliner, but it doesn't come close to GrandView -- then again, no apps
>do. The closest in my view is Omn...
GrandView on VMWare 7 on Vista64
5/2/2013
Listerene wrote:
"sure wish for a GV for Windows"
>There actually IS a pretty good substitute called UV Outliner.
I tried UV Outliner again, but for my purposes I'm finding it rather limited and slow...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
I can definitely recommend it. With PDF Xchange Pro and the PDF Xchange
>Tools I do just about everything I would have needed Acrobat Pro for.
>Watch out for possible cross...
GrandView on VMWare 7 on Vista64
4/26/2013
Cassius wrote:
The following is self explanatory. Except: After you add the extension
>".rtf", open the ".rtf" file in Word.
>The best approach (so far) that I've found for converting GV files to
>In...
GrandView on VMWare 7 on Vista64
4/25/2013
Backbutton wrote:
>Gosh sure wish for a GV for Windows. Is there a market? Scrivner is on
>sale, wondering if I should buy; but nothing could compare to GV--logic,
>flow of thinking, ability to chan...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>>I just had a bit of a problem
>>with viewing a PDF in Firefox with the XChange Viewer (free version!),
>and this time I
>>bothered to email the error re...
Well, another possibility might be to use a mind mapper on Android that saves in .mm format and syncs with Dropbox.
Then on the PC you can just use Freeplane to open the same file. Freeplane **is** ...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Admittedly it is simplistic too; frankly I cannot think of any modern
>one-pane outliner I've seen that I have not found simplistic.
Just for reference, here is a list of...
Dr Andus wrote:
>Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to import this data
>into ConnectedText in a satisfactory way. I could import the OPML file
>as an outline, but the inline notes wo...
Just to wrap this thread up... Here is what I wanted to do:
1. Create reading notes in Freeplane (items+notes).
2. Convert them into an outline showing the inline notes, using a single-pane outliner.
...
Alex - welcome to the forum. I don't know anything about Android - though you may want to check out this recent suggestion:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4845/0/android-single-pane-outl...
RickFencer wrote:
>I will confess I have a
>hard time wrapping my head around the kind of situation Dr Andus or
>Alexander describe where the phenomenon I saw would be useful.
I think the main benefi...
Alexander/Steve - thanks for your comments. I'm starting to think that in this instance I'm dealing with a Freeplane-specific problem.
My mind map started out life in iThoughtsHD on my iPad. It expo...
What is the best format to export and import an outline with inline notes between different outliners?
Recently I had started moving more data around and I realised that it is less then straightforw...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Dr Andus, I just want to be clear about what I am talking about, because
>I am not quite sure we're discussing the same behavior.
Yes, we're talking about the same thing. I was a...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> As Dr Andus and Alexander point out, there is an argument
>to be made that UV Outliner's behavior is intentional and has its uses,
I can't comment on UVO, but the main idea in ...