Derek Cornish

Outlines of outlines 10/11/2006

So, this thread seems to point to some action after all as regards outlines of outlines, which is encouraging; but few with powerful enough editing pane outlining. Still it's good to see that the conc...

Outlines of outlines 10/11/2006

Thanks Cassius. I've been looking for a simple flowcharter for a project I'm doing. I'll check it out. Derek

What good is Paperport? 10/10/2006

I seem to remember that Paperport originally used to save files to its own proprietory format (was it *.max?). I think I had one of these less-than-useful versions (v7?) before they went over to *.pdf...

Some IdeaMason questions 10/9/2006

Thanks, Franz. That's very helpful. Derek

Some IdeaMason questions 10/9/2006

I've just downloaded a trial copy of IdeaMason. I know it sounds trivial, but is there any way of changing the color scheme? I'm probably being a dinosaur about this, but I don't like my laptop's sc...

Outlines of outlines 10/9/2006

> Once I’d downloaded it I realised that I had trialled it about 2-3 years ago. Whoops! Should have mentioned the name - Ovation Outliner.

Outlines of outlines 10/9/2006

Steve - Once I'd downloaded it I realised that I had trialled it about 2-3 years ago. Although it looks like a two-pane outliner with single-pane outlining in the rhs "notes" pane, the lhs pane isn't...

Desktop Sticky notes 10/8/2006

The original DOS version was called Tornado Notes. A later DOS version was called Info Select, and the Windows versions kept that name. It was a well-featured sticky-notes program , even in the DOS ve...

Outlines of outlines 10/8/2006

Stephen - Funnily enough I was playing around with the idea this evening of how useful it would be to be able to re-model Zoot's item-grid as a hierarchical tree instead of a list - as well as provid...

Outlines of outlines 10/8/2006

Cassius - Thanks for the links to TaoNotes and Ovation. It's encouraging to find these. I'll take a look. Derek

Outlines of outlines 10/6/2006

Graham - > >Given my modest requirements I should have been clearer; I meant "modest" in relation to graphics. I absolutely agree about Zoot's power. By the way, to my chagrin I found on searching ...

Caselogistix - not an outliner but very interesting (and very, very expensive...) 10/6/2006

> I thought NoteMap was the more reasonable product at $149. Not so reasonable for a basic outliner, though :-). Although I have a copy and it works well with MS-Word, it is rather limited. Most (all...

Outlines of outlines 10/6/2006

Graham - Thanks for casting an eye over my description of problems with Zoot file-linking. There are so many ways to do (roughly) the same thing in Zoot that it is not always clear which action will ...

Caselogistix - not an outliner but very interesting (and very, very expensive...) 10/5/2006

Hi Dominik, Some of the legal software has a lot of potential for doing just the sort of tasks people often discuss here. CaseSoft's CaseMap (http://www.casesoft.com/) is another example. As you say...

Outlines of outlines 10/5/2006

Thanks, Cassius. That's about the design I had in mind. I'll take a closer look. Derek

Outlines of outlines 10/5/2006

Graham, Good to hear from you. Yes, I'm still using Zoot. Have you moved on to other software? > The searching should just happen, other than linking the file, you shouldn’t need to do anything for...

Outlines of outlines 10/4/2006

Steve - I looked at both desktop and PC versions of ListPro a month or so ago when scoping out programs to use on my Axim. As you say, although it's not quite what I have in mind in connection with t...

Outlines of outlines 10/4/2006

Thanks for the explanation, Hugh. It's very helpful to know how far UR is achieving integration with other software. This is a perennial problem.

Outlines of outlines 10/4/2006

re UR: I thought there must be something more to it. Like Jack, I'd like to know more about the Word outline template. Good to know about the indexing of the files. I think Zoot has a way of searching...

Outlines of outlines 10/3/2006

Well said, Hugh. I simply can't understand why it is so difficult to find such software, but probably the silence here explains the reason. I was interested to hear about your embedding of Word's out...

Outlines of outlines 10/1/2006

Thanks, Manfred. I'll keep my eyes open for one. Derek

Outlines of outlines 9/30/2006

Yes, I did look into emulation, but I thought that it would problably almost as expensive to get the Mac OS and rom legitimately as it would be to pick up a cheap Mac laptop and use that. Less fun, to...

Outlines of outlines 9/26/2006

David - > You’ll need an older Mac, with a PowerPC chip. Thanks for the tip. That's what I had in mind, but glad to get it confirmed. On the "outline of outlines" theme, one PC software developer ...

Outlines of outlines 9/26/2006

Although I don't use a Mac I have always been interested in their software, which seems to offer a much greater range of writing tools. (Zoot and Grandview are probably my main reasons for not having ...

Why isn't notetaking software better? 9/25/2006

Kenneth - > For windows, I would suggest Evernote for note taking and Ariadne for outlining. Although I admire the different tack that Evernote has taken, I'm still very much wed to Zoot for my text...

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