Dr Andus
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Dr Andus wrote:
> by wanting to please a
>lot of common ground, it will include some specialist needs.
>
I meant to say **exclude** specialist needs.
The undertext here seems to be the age-old dilemma whether to use one software for everything or to use a tool-chain of several specialist software. I'm in favour of the latter, simply because the wor...
Your top 3 tools?
3/22/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>Okay, I'm gonna take a look at Checkvist to see what I'm missing :)
I did check out Checkvist, and while it is definitely more mature and more feature-rich than WorkFlowy, I still pr...
Dr Andus wrote:
>I need to write a 10,000-word
>chapter and I don't want to run over. I want to be able to track the
>average size and number of paragraphs very strictly, for individual
>sections and ...
Dr Andus wrote:
>I am being extra careful with backing it up, as it's
>got some issues on Win7, 64-bit. However, regarding export, one you can
>just use "save to file" with the option of text or RTF, ...
"Google Keep" notetaker ??
3/20/2013
I'm amazed that Google Bookmarks is still around... Just stumbled upon it after years of not having come across it.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>>Dr Andus, before you commit too much into ND, do check what the export
>>features are. I believe that its lack thereof was a reason that I
>didn't
>...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>>Sorry that I didn't see your earlier reference to Notebox... I wouldn't
>>have jumped in with my own suggestion otherwise.
>
>No problem; in fact, I ...
Omea Pro FINALLY open source!!!
3/19/2013
jimspoon wrote:
I've read that Feedly has 500,000 new users since Google's announcement.
> Been trying it out on PCs, Android tablet, and Android phone, and I'm
>very impressed.
It seems though you ...
Omea Pro FINALLY open source!!!
3/18/2013
One interesting effect of importing all my Google Reader feeds into Omea was that I discovered I had dozens of dead feeds in there. For some reason I never noticed that in Google Reader, but Omea disp...
Omea Pro FINALLY open source!!!
3/18/2013
jimspoon wrote:
I downloaded Omea Pro 2.2, but it obviously isn't the new version
>…build date is 2/2/07. Odd that it synchronizes with Outlook Tasks,
>but apparently not Outlook Notes.
In my ...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>square boxes. If you click on the third of these, the one with the up
>pointing triangle, you can expand the row height in two increments. The
>down pointing triangle box will de...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
P.S. Don't be fooled by the screenshot of Notebox, which makes it look
>like a spreadsheet. You can easily expand the cells to show much of the
>text.
Steve & Alexander, thanks f...
Dr Andus wrote:
Actually I'm starting to think that ECCO might be appropriate for this.
>It doesn't have inline notes but the items seem to be able to handle
>longer notes, so they almost look like in...
Actually I'm starting to think that ECCO might be appropriate for this. It doesn't have inline notes but the items seem to be able to handle longer notes, so they almost look like inline notes. I've n...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Thanks for the prompt suggestion.
I assume that the column(s) in Natara Bonsai are not sufficient, nor is
>the character follow-up in Outline 4D, as you already familiar ...
Single-pane outliner with inline notes and customisable column - is there such a thing?
I need to outline and write a complex chapter in matrix-style, i.e. besides the main line of argument there are...
Have you tried or considered ConnectedText? You can keep thousands of such entries in one project (although certain fancy queries and transclusions can slow it down eventually, but those are optional)...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>And you might try Scrivener and just use the cork board view to start.
Or you could just write the text in continuous toilet roll mode in a single Scrivener document item, and t...
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3/17/2013
Cassius wrote:
>The example shown for WorkFlowy shows only short notes. Can it include
>many paragraphs or pages in a single note, the way GrandView did and
>Inspiration does?
The answer is yes, as ...
Speaking of yesterday's BdJ, Listary Pro seemed interesting. I'd put it in the same category as Direct Folders and Everything Search Engine (in fact, like a combination of the two), which have been di...
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>Basically, I'm wondering if there's a tool that lets me just throw in
>unrelated sentences and paragraphs quickly and then move them around
>into something coherent later, w...
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3/11/2013
MadaboutDana wrote:
Funnily enough, I've been reaching the same conclusion re: task
>management. Currently, I've gone back to Carbonfin Outliner (and its web
>equivalent) for managing all my work - th...
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3/11/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>USD49 annually is a bit steep though for the Pro version of what still
>seems a beta in many respects
Well, everything is relative. I'd just unwillingly participated in Wunderlist's...
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3/11/2013
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>An important consideration, it seems to me, with one of these
>subscription-based web apps is where are you if the company goes out of
>business, raises their prices, changes the...