Dominik Holenstein

Ultra Recall 5/9/2017

I can confirm this. UltraRecall is very mature and stable and I use it every day as my personal ticketing system at work. Dominik

Dynalist adds Tag Panel 5/9/2017

Yes, this is a very nice feature! And I it is a joy to see how Dynalist is being developed. I am very happy that I switched to Dynalist a half year ago. Dominik

TheBrain v9 - Release 9.0.161 - 24th March 2017 - Reminders are back! 3/24/2017

The current release (9.0.161) bring back the long awaited reminders. You can add one or more events to one thought including a reminder for each event. Further, all events can be viewed on the timelin...

Terminology for iOS 1/11/2017

Hi Paul, Many thanks for this hint! Terminology is available on the App store now (at least on the one for Switzerland..) . Best, Dominik

TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase 10/29/2016

Just my 2 cents here: I switched to TheBrain v9 four weeks ago and I do not regret it. It was a bit risky but I have no issues. I don't miss the calendar to my own surprise. I am using MindManager fo...

Ultra recall 5.2 was released in July 10/10/2016

Hi Magenda, UltraRecall gets small updates regularly. Most of them are bug fixes. UR is therefore very stable but not under active development. Apart from that it still is a very feature rich and in...

FoldingText + Editorial 8/6/2016

I am using *.taskpaper files together with Editorial (on the iPhone) and with Sublime Text v3. First, I considered to buy the TaskPaper App but it is available for OSX only. So I decided to buy Sublim...

Evernote raises prices 7/25/2016

For those on iOS and OSX, I have just stumbled upon Bear, an app similar to Evernote but with a better focus on the writer's requirements: http://www.bear-writer.com/ Bear is currently in the public ...

Info Select v11 Beta 6/16/2016

I have just learned that Micro Logic has released a beta version of InfoSelect 11: http://www.miclog.com/software/Features/is11features.html There is a nice sentence on that page at the bottom: "Inf...

Outliner with symbolic links 5/23/2016

Hi Karel, UltraRecall is another candidate where it is called "logical linking" While the further development of UltraRecall has slowed down (or better: has stopped) in the meantime the developers ...

Smartdown II version 1.0 released today 3/15/2016

Many thanks for this hint! Smartdown II looks like a very nice editor developed by a very smart mind who really knows what you need when writing a text. I will test it tomorrow at work first but I am ...

Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call 1/8/2016

After working with OneNote for one week I have just decided to remove it from my tool list. OneNote is a great tool but the cross-linking with TheBrain is not very convenient. Further, I added two ne...

Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call 1/8/2016

These are interesting questions! What were we CRIMPers been using for 2015? What old favourites are still proving to be solid? And what are we looking forward to? Used in 2015: - TheBrain 8 - MindM...

Mind Collected - a new Personal Database Tool (by the developers of Swift To-Do List) 3/8/2015

Stumbling upon the coming discount on bitsdujour.com in the next days for Swift To-Do List http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/swift-to-do-list-9-professional-swift-mind-freedom-ebook/in=upcoming-disco...

Mac Envy 2/26/2015

A very good question and a great response from Jaslar! I suppose that most software developed for OSX is based on system specific technology (Cocooa for example). This means that a migration of the c...

What is Tinderbox? Interesting summary 1/25/2015

Finally.... I bought a MacBook Air 13.3" yesterday. First impression compared to buying a new notebook with Windows: I could work the the MacBook Air 20 minutes after the first switch on, indredible...

Black Hole Organizer on Bitsdujour today (2nd January 2015) - USD 4.95 instead of USD 24.95 1/2/2015

Black Hole Organizer is a free form text and information database where you can define your own database fields and organise your texts, snippets, links and files in categories (folders). Further, Bla...

Holiday reflections 12/29/2014

@jaslar, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts! My big shift this year was going from OneNote back to TheBrain. It wasn't a decision against OneNote because I consider it as one of best apps within t...

OT: Spreadsheet software for very large files 10/3/2014

Panorama Sheets and Panorama are available for Windows as well: http://www.provue.com/panorama/riskfreetrial/index.html Best, Dominik

An in-depth TheBrain app-praisal ! 7/12/2014

This is so true! donleone wrote: >i am actually starting to get tired of all these “lines” criss-crossing >all over the place so much, >that is un-avoidable if you got (and love to make)...

An in-depth TheBrain app-praisal ! 7/11/2014

Hello all, This is definitely a great review! Further, I have just done the same experience with OneNote / TheBrain like Stephen Zeoli: "I recently tried to move from an info management centered on...

Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers 6/30/2014

Maybe I am a bit late with my reply and most of the solution I am presenting here is nearly identical to what Steve Z. has suggested. But this request for a review copy management system is a good exa...

Correlate is back 3/15/2014

@Daly, It is nice to meet the old campers here again :-) ! Are you still missing ADM like me? My main work horse is TheBrain in the meantime. Regarding Correlate: Yes, you can achieve the same with M...

Correlate is back 3/14/2014

We are having a much better time at the moment with the announced free OneNote, Clibu (Surfulater on the web), the Zettelkasten and now with Correlate. I remember having bought a licence for Correlat...

Can TheBrain be synced without the cloud 1/21/2014

@PIMfan, I am using TheBrain on a daily basis to track the projects and actions at work. A thought can be a - Task - Open - Task - Closed - Project - Contact - Note Each Task has a log in the note...

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