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Devonthink To Go or Bookends on Tap
4/7/2017
Dellu
DTTG2 is a very good app, I agree, but in all fairness to BEOT you have set up something wrong here.
You can configure to either download all PDFs, or only PDFs up to a certain size or PDFs of r...
TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase
11/17/2016
Thanks for the heads up. TheBrain has always fascinated me but not being able to sync the content between computers (let's ignore mobile devices) using anything but a proprietary service based in the ...
Call me pessimistic but I had always thought Vesper to be canary in the coalmine - but for a very different reason. I bought it already suspecting that I would end up using something else for all the ...
Best program for lecture notes
6/3/2016
I totally agree about your own suggestion, Zim is wonderfully simple at first but with some room to grow. It is open, both in terms of source code as in the many ways you can make use of it. And the f...
Outliner with symbolic links
5/23/2016
I can confirm Neo for OS X, a very powerful, yet affordable outliner with symlinks
For any operating system that can run Emacs, org mode is a fantastic, if a little idiosyncratic outliner sporting sy...
TreeNote - Windows (new)
2/24/2016
Addendum to the above post:
You need to run Couchdb once before it can be invoked by the script apparently.
So add step 3a (ahem) and type this in the terminal:
couchdb
That should do it, sorry for...
TreeNote - Windows (new)
2/24/2016
Installing on a Mac from source is much easier than previously described on the Treenote webpage: http://www.treenote.de/installation/
This requires a working installation of homebrew, the package man...
Free Form Database Markdown ?
2/24/2016
There are a number of free-form databases that use some form of fields or key:value pairs.
Org mode is using the property drawer for it with a plain text markup, see here http://orgmode.org/manual/Pr...
Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business
2/23/2016
Bob Spies wrote:
>
>From time-to-time I consider trying org mode, but I'd need to leave the
>real world for a week to try and get it working for me--haven't found
>the time for that yet.
Totally u...
Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business
2/23/2016
I am not sure I share the same sense of nostalgia given that some really powerful contenders are with us right now. Will they only be remembered when they have drop out of business?
1) Neo, ridiculo...
Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business
2/20/2016
While it is true that one should never invest in what a software may (or may not) become in the future but take it for what it does at the moment, the reverse is probably also true. One should not reg...
Yes, on the other hand I find a line like this one on the farewell page highly unprofessional.
"Best of luck with all the turd note-taking apps that are left."
So almost all users are stupid and ge...
Just FYI, spacemacs has a new website http://spacemacs.org with some very attractive looking documentation and a new version of spacemacs itself, too.
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/23/2015
Just two more things:
1) If Vim editing style using SPC as a leader key is enabled, the original emacs shortcuts still work as well so if "C-h k" is already engrained in your memory you don't have to ...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/22/2015
A matter of personal preference I would say.
I am a newbie and not a programmer and to me it felt that emacs was hobbled together over decades whereas spacemacs tries to introduce one consistent appr...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
12/22/2015
Disclaimer: I am a scientist and my interest in emacs or vim besides some general dabbling at text is really just driven by org mode.
If you are on the fence regarding org-mode and have been put off...
TaskPaper 3?
11/5/2015
Why kidding? Some weeks ago a link to an interview with the creator of Taskpaper was posted on this forum, in which he announced that after years of starting curious, self-competing projects (FoldingT...
An interesting interview with the creator of Taskpaper, Foldingtext et al but not one that would convince me of a strategy behind the differentiation between the two. You would not believe which one i...
Yes, but it was hardly Taskpaper that invented the on-the-fly mark-up-ified display of plain text material.
Org mode came before that and is a *lot* more powerful, too, but there may have been progr...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
9/10/2015
Back to the topic of org-mode.
I have meant to use org-mode more extensively for a number of years now and really would but currently I am not advanced enough to reach a productive-enough state with o...
Interesting. If run inside Crossover, do all the plugins, scripts etc work, too?
I tried the same a long time ago (Crossover v8 or 9, I believe) and there was no way to link to items or produce alias...
Kanban Kit
5/6/2015
Hugh wrote:
>Ah, OK, Kanban Kit. But is it the only one?
On the Mac there are the usual suspects that can be bent to make a Kanban-style project management possible: Curio and Tinderbox.
Some mont...
Mac in Cloud
4/29/2015
Thanks for posting this, being a Mac person (mostly) I had not seen this before.
Considering the cost, would it not be a viable alternative to buy a Mac mini and connect to it using screen sharing o...
One more if I may. Connecting to TrunkNotes via Wifi sharing depends on the presence of a Wifi that OS X as well iOS device can connect to, which is not possible everywhere. Under Yosemite one cannot ...
TrunkNotes is *excellent* but if you are primarily working on your computer accessing and editing your wiki on your mobile device adds some unwanted friction. For years I have been encouraging the dev...