Derek Cornish

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

Steve - > The few single-pane outliners are definitely more deft at reorganizing your work and provide the holistic view that is crucial for smooth writing, but they lack an database functionality. ...

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

I do, actually, David. Like Steve Z. I'm a longtime Grandview user. But I'd like some other options, too - e.g., ones that combine single-pane outlining within two (or more)-pane notetakers. In a ra...

Why isn't notetaking software better? 9/24/2006

Reading Cassius's "From Jot+ to ???" got me thinking more generally about notetaking programs, so I thought I had better start a new thread. I'd like to jump in with some general comments about what, ...

Wiki -- Why? 9/7/2006

Manfred (and other wiki users) I just came across this: WWW: http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/ "WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations and notes management and article authoring system desig...

Wiki -- Why? 9/5/2006

Daly - I tried out ConnectedText over the summer, and my views are much the same as yours. Clearly, it is a matter of how people prefer to work, and what they are working on, though. For collaborativ...

news group snippet collection software wanted - free 9/5/2006

Graham - How about NoteBox Disorganizer, the Squirrel Technologies program that was discussed on outliners.com last year (I think). It's at: http://www.geocities.com/goosnargh37/NDC.html It's descr...

Outliners.com archive 9/5/2006

Thanks a lot, Tom. Very helpful to have these locally. All the best, Derek

Outliners.com archive 9/4/2006

Chris - The new Archive looks great. Thanks very much for getting it up and running so quickly. It should be quite a draw :-). Derek

Outliners.com archive 9/4/2006

Thanks very much for doing this, Tom. From the Archives display here I can see that it is now much better organized and easier to read. By the way, the link you gave for the modified file's whereabou...

Outliners.com archive 8/28/2006

As an addendum, using the free indexed search engine, Wilbur (http://wilbur.redtree.com/download.htm) gives a considerably better and quicker result than dtSearch. Derek

Outliners.com archive 8/28/2006

Chris - Thanks for giving me the url again for the file. I must have missed it first time around. I see what you mean about the format. It's meant to be an opml one, but I haven't been able to load ...

Outliners.com archive 8/26/2006

Is there any more news about the fate of the outliners.com archive? Last I heard back on May 4th was that Chris was having problems reading the contents of the file he had received. Derek

Recent updates 8/23/2006

Thanks, Steve. This one is always well worth watching. It's a pity though that, apart from the first one, the screen shots are so small, even the enlarged views. Perhaps another example of hastiness.....

Forum bug? 8/17/2006

Jack - I use Firefox and find that after logging in I need to go back to the tabbed web-page of messages I was looking at, and refresh the page. The blue boxes then come up. I expect the same thing ...

Index cards software 8/16/2006

Sorry that askSam did not work for you, Wojciech. It seems strange that nobody is producing software with the type of features you mention. Maybe one of the traditional database programs (e.g, MS Acce...

Index cards software 8/12/2006

Wojciech - > Does anobody know a program of this type (I mean: based on index cards concept ) that allows for completely free design of > cards? During years I have developed my own system of making ...

WhizFolders and Graphical Front Ends 8/6/2006

Derek Cornish wrote: >I was hoping to use CS/WR for web-capture and browsing - >especially because of its use of virtual folders - but (a) Zoot doesn't handle the >URL-type address hyperlinks to CS/...

Universal/Internal URLs 8/6/2006

As a follow-up to my post about Zoot's handling of other programs' URL-type addresses for items in their databases, the new build of Zoot now recognizes Biblioscape and Web Research (formerly ContentS...

Universal/Internal URLs 7/16/2006

You're probably right. I hadn't thought of that. I downloaded the Clipcache/Linkstash guy's Multimacro program the other day. Maybe I'll try it out. Derek

Universal/Internal URLs 7/16/2006

Alex - The ones I know about are Biblioscape and Contentsaver (now Web Research). They both provide special URL address hyperlinks to items in their databases. [I wish I knew the proper technical ter...

WhizFolders and Graphical Front Ends 7/15/2006

Stephen - Thanks very much. I'll take a look, I think (trans. I just must take a look now). Derek

WhizFolders and Graphical Front Ends 7/15/2006

Ian, I very much appreciate your discussion of Ultra Recall - much food for thought. I've d/l it a couple of times, but never really gave it much of a workout. One problem is the tree-organizer conce...

WhizFolders and Graphical Front Ends 7/15/2006

Steve - Before I d/l Whizfolders, can you tell me whether it has: - any single-pane outlining features - ability to import .HEAD outlines (e.g., to import Grandview files) - ability to export outl...

Google Notebook 7/15/2006

Chris, > I think the trend is in the direction of web apps and online storage, though. I belive there may be a tipping point in the future where having applications and storage online will be safer a...

Google Notebook 7/14/2006

Chris - Sorry for the late response... I'm just not sure whether I want Google to have access to my private notes in this way. I feel the same about Gmail. I may be paranoid, but I don't trust any g...

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