Paul Korm
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I've noticed that more captures in Reader are not successful. Not a huge number, but noticeable, especially from major news sites when Reader throws up a message about not being able to capture the ...
'I Deleted My Second Brain'
7/15/2025
The trap is thinking of software as a "second brain". There are no second chances. Best to use the one in the skull.
I am in my sixth year of generating Daily Notes in Obsidian. I create the note via the "Open today's daily note" ribbon button, and then populate the note with a Typinator macro expansion ("obs.dail...
MarginNote is Mac / iPad only.
A similar option, for Mac and Windows, is LiquidText
https://www.liquidtext.net
Lucine wrote:
>That looks excellent! Is there anything similar for web/windows?
MarginNote 4 is very good for working with, annotating, taking notes on single or multiple PDFs grouped together.
https://www.marginnote.com
danschimpf.com states release 7.3.1 is "Compatible with macOS Ventura Built Universal for Macs with M1 and M2".
That puts at late 2022 for definite compatibility. There's a note about a v7.4 beta ...
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/8/2025
Tinderbox has multiple views for the same data -- outline, map, hyperbolic, etc.
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/5/2025
There's several lifetimes of CRIMPing potential there. Better clear the calendar and get started.
Cyganet wrote:
I came across this site and it's beautifully done. Their app gallery
>covers everyth...
Apple's Calendar app on macOS, and Fantastical can print day, week, month, year, or date range events for any range of dates.
Book "Thinking with Tinderbox"
4/23/2025
The developer / hypertext mavin Mark Bernstein has a new book out. "Thinking with Tinderbox".
https://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ThinkingWithTinderbox.html
It's a PDF.
New logical outlining tools
4/13/2025
GPT4o claims to know how to apply the Toulmin hexagon framework, and can produce results similar to the Miller-Altshule template for Tana. Not surprising, since the Tana template uses ChatGPT (and, o...
Readwise sync added to Craft
4/9/2025
The most recent beta of Craft introduced syncing notes and highlights with Readwise. Nice update.
(DM Viktor in the Craft Slack community to ask for addition to Test Flight for Craft on macOS / iOS...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/3/2025
DEVONthink 4 is now available in public beta.
https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
The headline is the deep integration of AI with DEVONthink. Choose your favorite AI, or switch depend...
What's Up With Walling?
4/2/2025
On macOS, there is a Share Extension for Craft On iOS/iPadOS, selected text can be shared to Craft. And, on macOS, selected text can be shared to the Craft share extension via the Share… comm...
Collaboration Frustration
3/19/2025
I hope it helps meet your needs, Ken.
Craft at first blush looks like a sort of Pinterest wanna-be, but under the surface are some interesting features.
Collaboration Frustration
3/16/2025
If you or one of your collaborators has a Craft license (or a Setapp subscription, from which Craft can be installed), then it is pretty simple to create and share a document that anyone can edit whet...
Tana public launch
2/1/2025
Word on Tana's Slack instance is that the product will come out of beta on February 3.
https://tana.inc
Web, Mac, Windows, iOS apps -- Android release is lagging
I've used Tana since the initial b...
I'm sympathetic to Stephen Zeoli's thoughts about "workflow". To me, it smacks of Taylorism, which is not a good model for intellectual pursuits. I don't think the term is going way in so-called "...
I've walked up to Scrintal's front door many times, then walk away because I don't want to provide credit information and pay to check out the app.
MindNode Classic, and now MindNode Next
12/4/2024
Putting documents in a "database" synced with CloudKit is retrograde motion, in my opinion. I've struggled with apps that use CloudKit sync, which in my experience is unreliable. I see no benefit ...
MindNode Classic, and now MindNode Next
11/27/2024
I installed MindNode Next. It is essentially the same as MindNode Classic. The only major new feature requires an Apple Vision Pro. (Spatial Brainstorming) There is a subscription program that ...
MindNode Classic, and now MindNode Next
11/24/2024
MindNode documents can be kept anywhere the user wants to store them. They are individual, stand-alone documents, and not part of a database.
Amontillado wrote:
I'm always nervous when an app do...
Obsidian web clipper just released
11/21/2024
I appreciate Obsidian Web Clipper's extensive configurability and the web highlighter feature. I think I'll be able to use the Clipper instead of Readwise Reader in many cases. Coupled with indexi...
An "online first" app, based in China, with a Privacy Policy as leaky as a sponge. Sorry, no.
Text Block Author
11/5/2024
There's mention of "Text Block Author" here, in post at least 14 years old, containing a dodgy link that Safari refused to open. So, maybe TBA is deader than dead?
https://textblockauthor.blogspot....