Dr Andus
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12/26/2012
NVivo can also do something like this. If you're a student/academic and your university provides a copy, then it might be worth checking out. But otherwise I'm reluctant to recommend it, due to its co...
MLO
12/24/2012
MyLifeOrganized v.4 PUBLIC Release Candidate (desktop version) available. Haven't had a chance to try it yet. The new tabbed interface looks useful. It now has a two-pane view (I hope it's possible to...
notetaking in 2012 (amusing photo)
12/21/2012
Note-taking? I'm sure Manfred Kuehn would have something to say about that :)
But yes and no. The photo will only turn into an actual note if it becomes embedded into a meaningful system and some kin...
Single-pane outliners
12/21/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
Cassius wrote:
>I know it has been said that the Bonsai screen shots don't do it
>>justice, BUT they surely turn me off.
>
>The Bonsai interface is fairly customisable. You can make it...
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Google official blog is quite clear:
>http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html
>
>I think current users are OK...
Thanks Pierre, and also thanks goodness f...
Just updated to Freeplane v. 1.2.20 and it seems to have improved some of the interface and usability issues I've had with it.
Has anyone evaluated Freemind vs. Freeplane recently? Some time ago I switched to Freeplane as it seemed to be more feature-rich and more vigorously developed, while preserving the best of Freemind.
...
New Ipad, what apps to put on it?
12/20/2012
An overview of some to-do apps for iOS:
http://www.macdrifter.com/2012/12/a-task-management-vision-quest.html
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>Perhaps this can help:
>http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-sync-google-contacts-with-iphone-contacts-using-carddav/
Thanks for the link, Pierre.
Oops, but perhaps s/he wasn't talking about the native Gmail client, so Exchange is still gone. I guess we'll find out on Jan. 30th...
One of commenters in the article says that " iOS users are pretty safe at the moment as Google are permitted (at Apples discretion of course) to distribute a dedicated email client for that platform, ...
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Dr Andus wrote:
>>Pierre,
>>thank you so much for your help. It pretty much fixed all my problems,
>I believe. I
>>should have done this years ago :)
>
>Great ! I haven't...
Single-pane outliners
12/18/2012
Cassius wrote:
>How much text can one put in
>a single outline item and can one include graphics?
You put your finger on Bonsai's main limitations:
- Each item in the outline is limited to 1000 char...
Single-pane outliners
12/18/2012
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
Tried Bonsai and damn, it looks like this an opportunity the developer
>missed out on badly. I never really gave it a decent look because it's
>marketed as the desktop compon...
jimspoon wrote:
Hi - I hope they don't mind, but I've uploaded the key Ecco files and
>manual pdf to a shared folder on Dropbox - this is the link :
>
>https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wgcy1a4m9bjb1o8/j3CM...
Single-pane outliners
12/17/2012
jimspoon wrote:
>I spent a while last night playing around with Bonsai. Looks pretty
>good. I found out how to add columns to the view. It doesn't seem to
>be possible to add user-defined fields/co...
White board software
12/17/2012
Graham Rhind wrote:
@Bill There's something similar on my Samsung Note but what I'm trying
>to visualise is horrendously complex - I had about 100 nodes and 500
>links in the VUE graphic I attempted b...
Single-pane outliners
12/17/2012
jimspoon wrote:
>Too bad the mobile clients are for Palm OS and Windows Mobile, instead
>of Android and iOS!
I think there are a number of Android and iOS apps that can import/export either Bonsai fi...
White board software
12/17/2012
You may also want to check this thread about virtual coarkboards:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3934/25
White board software
12/17/2012
Graham Rhind wrote:
>From what I see I can't draw on that story board. I literally want to
>create a paste and draw white board interface (a digital version of an
>office white board), without the ne...
Single-pane outliners
12/17/2012
Cassius wrote:
I know it has been said that the Bonsai screen shots don't do it
>justice, BUT they surely turn me off.
The Bonsai interface is fairly customisable. You can make it look like a basic s...
White board software
12/17/2012
Try Story Turbo (we've discussed it here recently). Price has been recently dropped down from around $5 to 99c, but there is no guarantee that it's going to stay that way (it was 99c and then suddenly...
Single-pane outliners
12/15/2012
jimspoon wrote:
bHi Dr. Andus, I was puzzled by the inclusion of Ultra Recall in the
>list of single-pane outliners, so I was experimenting with it for
>awhile. If true, it would be great, because UR...
List of PIMs
12/14/2012
This sounds good to me, I would certainly support this. And what revenue model did you have in mind? :)
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Mind mappers are little more than visually enhanced hierarchical
>outlining tools. As such, they suffer from the "everything is
>miscellaneous" weakness of outlines, i.e. ...