Paul Korm
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A critique of tagging
11/7/2023
The developer of DEVONthink is fond of telling users "tags are groups" (i.e., folders). In most implementations of tags, they really are.
A critique of tagging
11/5/2023
I think a number of the tools-for-thought / productivity gurus have been around long enough that their game of changing their advice, or repackaging it under new names and new courses, has gone well p...
1 Diagramming software like Scapple, but with notes connectable to multiple parts of the map?
11/5/2023
I often create these sorts of documents. Usually I see them called "concept maps", but other terminology pops up. I can think of several applications that will do this for you, including:
1. Curi...
Another fan of the local graph, here. I've recently hyped the local graph's value by including in my daily note template links to the notes for "this day a year ago" and "this day two years ago". By...
I enjoy the spark of a new idea or insight. It happens a lot. But, not because of any computer or software. It's reading, talking to interesting people, day dreaming, and taking long walks that wo...
Bike is now on Setapp
10/26/2023
A Setapp subscription on macOS now includes Bike. Nice.
Yes, for me, and I think also for others.
Barrage wrote:
There seem to be a few apps going by the name Curio these days...is
>Curio by Zengobi the one of which you speak?
I'm afraid my toys would be saddened if I picked just one as the fun one. So there's three that I play with even when I have nothing important to do: Curio, Obsidian and TheBrain.
Curio, because ...
Yesterday I asked Bard for a photo of upper 5th Avenue (NY) as it was in 1920. It replied "Here's a photo of upper 5th Avenue in 1920". It was a photo of Pasadena from this summer.
Google Lens is ...
TheBrain has release the first beta (better to call it "pre-alpha" IMO) of TheBrain 14.
https://thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain14
It's very very buggy. The company has gone all-in on the O...
Useful outliner search/query examples
9/20/2023
Features I find very useful
* Regular expression searching
* Type-to-replace highlighted search results (useful in conjunction with regex-based search)
* Search and replace across multiple documents
Escape's developers did a good job of making their app look like MindNode.
My enjoyment of Tana is increasing as its feature set expands and matures. Looks like there will be a broader public release later this year. Although, it's easy to get access to Tana now -- just ...
Another one goes subscription
9/2/2023
There was (and still is) an app called NoteTaker that was contemporaneous with Circus Ponies. I'm not sure which came first, but NoteTaker 4 is still around on macOS.
https://www.aquaminds.com
Then...
Another one goes subscription
8/31/2023
I own more software than a sane person ought, and over the last 40 years I recall only one case where software stopped working because the developer went out of business -- Circus Ponies Notebook. Th...
Neil Larson / MaxThink
8/28/2023
Not a dedicated article, but he is mentioned in "History of the web browser"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I am surprised that there is no wikipedi...
Sanderson style outlining in Curio
8/20/2023
Keywords can be used "like tags"
steve-rogers wrote:
OmniOutliner uses tags?
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>Amontillado wrote:
>Outliners supporting tags, like Outline Edit and OmniOutliner, help with
>>threaded outlines but th...
Neil Larson / MaxThink
8/15/2023
Well, dancing has symmetry with outlining. Placing feet and body in the right order. Hoisting. Indention moves.
I can see the rationale.
Quantum-ish wrote:
I just tried the maxthink.com websi...
Did Remnote Just Leapfrog Tana?
8/1/2023
Probably because I haven't used it enough, RemNote's structure built around the card metaphor feels really fiddly. Did the app start out as a spaced repetition tool that got a lot of other features ...
The Properties feature introduced in Obsidian 1.4.x provides a panel, similar to Notion and other apps, that serves as an overlay for the YAML front matter in a document, and also enforces data type. ...
Hi @Dellu -- there's nothing at the WordPress link you posted :-(
I like Highlights quite a bit, and have used it from it's first release. Jonas Ribe has incrementally built it into a very good anno...
Bear 2 - Reactions?
7/18/2023
I suppose this is worth worrying about. A little bit. Maybe more. But on the other hand, I don't recall ever seeing the internet all outraged because someone dug through iCloud or AWS or elsewhere ...
Bear 2 - Reactions?
7/16/2023
I haven't seen a head-to-head comparison, but it seems that Apple Notes under iOS/macOS 17 will be pretty much on par with Bear 2.
I love Bear. It is a beautiful app. But development is the most ...
Interesting analysis. I'm not sure how it plays out in reality -- at least in my experience. (I am always grateful that I only have my own experience to deal with.) Of the top five apps that I us...
I'm always curious why the appearance of software is enough to almost instantly repel, before probing the depths to see the possible fitness of that software to serve one's needs.
Dormouse wrote:...