Chris Murtland
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Zoot revisited ... again
1/20/2021
Larry, yep, I think that only happens in the trial version (and only after the initial trial period expires). Tom may be able to extend your trial if you want to give it a more thorough test: https://...
Zoot revisited ... again
1/19/2021
First, let me offer a belated "happy new year" to all! I meant to do that sooner, but was struck with a severe case of CRIMP at the start of the year, because I didn't want to go through another year ...
Strange Ad Behavior
11/15/2020
I haven't changed anything recently, but I'll take a look at the ad settings and see if I can prevent this. I don't like ads that block the content you are trying to read.
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Good idea, I think if the original post can be tagged with platform(s), that would allow people to ignore ones they're not interested in. Later, I could implement a literal filter.
MenAgerie wrote:
I...
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Christoph wrote:
>Btw, an "edit" feature is not so simple to implement as it looks,
>because it can compromise the integrity of the online communication. It
>could be abused in forums where people a...
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Thanks to all for the ideas and feedback.
The look and feel will be very similar, just slightly more contemporary, mainly as a result of using a CSS framework to make everything work well on mobile. ...
Enjoying reading forum
10/28/2020
Hi Christoph,
I've actually started on a redesign of the site. The new version will look a little better (especially on mobile devices), but more importantly will include a lot of the features folks ...
Musings on mentions
10/28/2020
With TheBrain recently adding the Roam/Obsidian feature of "unlinked mentions," I thought it would be worth exploring how people find those useful and what potential use cases (and drawbacks) they may...
TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started
10/18/2020
Oh, man... this is quite cool. Really love the new features.
Best wishes for 2020 and beyond
1/9/2020
The visual redesign won't be too drastic - it's mostly to make everything work better on mobile. I prefer the minimalist look myself, and like having the content be the main point. I do want to provid...
Best wishes for 2020 and beyond
1/9/2020
Thanks everyone, and best wishes to you, too! I enjoy maintaining this forum; of course, I enjoy reading it even more.
I don't want to over-promise, but I plan to redesign and rewrite the site this y...
Ultra Recall comes to mind. You can drag a folder of txt files to UR and all the contents will be searchable, and you can also use all of UR's metadata features on each file (assign custom fields, etc...
Hi, welcome to the forum.
Yes, as far as I know, you have to place your marks as children of your target items first before throwing other entries to them if you want the thrown items to be children ...
Collegiality
6/16/2019
I have really enjoyed providing this site for thirteen years now. The main reason is the excellent and insightful discussion of software. A secondary reason is that I have had to do almost zero polici...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/5/2019
ConnectedText allows placing arbitrary fields (which CT calls properties or attributes) within any single topic.
The search functionality on this forum
12/30/2018
Yeah, I have noticed it is much harder for me to search using Google in recent years. I used to be able to be very specific in what I was looking for, but it seems like it is now increasingly more gea...
Any way to PM users here?
12/12/2018
I don't mind linking over to other tools/sites. In fact, I might set up a links page for links out to truly interesting places of discussion like Donation Coder, the Zettelkasten site, etc.
Also, it ...
Software for web clippings
12/12/2018
Another cool thing you can do in Ultra Recall is drag a URL from the address bar into the database but not actually store the page in the database. This is basically just a bookmark, but it still will...
Trunk Notes personal wiki closes up shop
11/14/2018
Too bad. I used TN heavily during several different periods, and with scripting I was able to replicate some ConnectedText features. It's probably been my favorite iOS app. Interestingly, he just rele...
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
I started playing around with CrossLine, and like it so far. One question: how do you transclude or show an item from one outline in another outline? I see how to link t...
Reminds me of AirTable and ZenKit (and I think they are cheaper). Of course, they are both subscription services and web-based, which may not be what you are looking for.
New forum RSS feed URL
7/19/2018
If anyone is using the Feedburner link to subscribe to the forum's RSS feed, I'm afraid it is having issues since I switched the entire site to go through https. I will try to fix that, but in the mea...
Gingko Desktop update
7/19/2018
A new version of Gingko Desktop has been released:
* Autosave the document on every change
* Search & filter the tree
* Open multiple documents at once
* Recent documents "Home" screen
* "...
The ability to apply metadata across diverse files and information types has always been the draw for me for database approaches like Ultra Recall. In UR, I can set up shared fields that are used on n...
improvements to the forum
7/10/2018
I originally wrote the forum software myself in 2006. It is basically in the exact same form as it was then. I do have a list of improvements I want to make, and welcome any suggestions. It's always b...