Jeffery Smith

TickTick steadily improves 9/17/2018

Gaaa! It's a necropost. I saw the OP and thought "Geat! A new improved TickTick!". DOH!

Tinderbox as a task manager? 9/11/2018

Thanks Paul. I'll give that a shot. I also have iMindMap 11, and would like to work with both of them in harmony. Jeff Paul Korm wrote: Yes the menus in DropTask need work. If you are in My Planner ...

Tinderbox as a task manager? 9/10/2018

Remarkably, DropTask was the task manager that I used for the past 6 months or so, but I have fits with its interface. On some machines, the categories and tasks appear as circular venn diagrams, but ...

Tinderbox as a task manager? 9/9/2018

After seeing a few Kanban type task managers, it occurred to me that Tinderbox could be used in that way. The map view allows boxes to be dragged to container boxes in a sort of Kanban fashion. I con...

Evernote in trouble? 9/7/2018

I had some confidence in Evernote and started to use it extensively for storing just about everything. What attracted me to it was that it was available from all of my devices (7), and DevonThink Offi...

SheetPlanner Future Features 8/19/2018

At the moment, I'm grappling with how to structure sets of tasks. For example, for each chapter, I teach (there are 15), there is a set of the same 5 tasks that need to be done as I get to them. At fi...

SheetPlanner Future Features 8/18/2018

I am sort of thinking of features for future versions or the Pro version. For now, I am learning the features through trial and error. Most of the prompts in the program inspector are pretty intuitive...

SheetPlanner Future Features 8/17/2018

I'm not familiar enough with the program to be requesting features. But I can tell you that I would like Sheetplanner and Tinderbox to have usable documentation. Tinderbox has a reputation of being a ...

SheetPlanner website is live 8/12/2018

Still no issues for me. Beginning today, I give it a much more rigorous testing as the fall semester begins tomorrow, and I'm revamping one of my courses completely. I'm really liking the outline/proj...

Education Project Plans 8/10/2018

In higher education, attempting a project is like herding cats. I used OmniPlan for 18 months, but gave up on the project when most of the other key players didn't stay on anything resembling a schedu...

SheetPlanner website is live 7/19/2018

So far, no issues with the Sheetplanner beta. I've dispensed with Omnifocus and Things, and prefer it to all of my other myriad task list apps. I've been through hundreds of task managers ever since t...

SheetPlanner website is live 7/19/2018

Got it. Thanks much!!

SheetPlanner website is live 7/19/2018

Some people like to have their completed tasks visible but crossed out. I'm happier with having completed items disappear. Other than deleting the lines of completed items one by one, will there be an...

Writer's log 7/17/2018

I do remember Findings showing up in blogs at about the same time as "Growly Notes". I didn't really fiddle around with either, but inasmuch as there are free versions of both, I may take a look at th...

Writer's log 7/17/2018

As a graduate student, I was expected to keep a daily journal of everything we did in the lab. Not doing so meant possibly making the same mistakes again. If alchemists had kept better records, they w...

Dynalist gets an API 7/13/2018

I'll try it on my work computer. I'm wondering if another app is interfering with it. Stephen Zeoli wrote: I don't have that problem at all. Items delete just as one would expect. > >Jeffery Smith wr...

Dynalist gets an API 7/13/2018

I used Dynalist briefly before discovering that I could not delete anything I put into it. The shortcut for deletion, and the menu item for delete don't work. I can edit the lines (backing over them w...

What is "ugly" software? 7/11/2018

I hate to post this, but early reviews of Tinderbox (on blogs) invariably had the words “ugly app”, and fortunately, Mark B. started to provide enhancements that could be added, though I t...

MacJournal 7/6/2018

I abandoned MacJournal when it seemed to be "abandonware". In fact, other than a few writing apps for authors, Mariner seemed to be winding down to nothing. DayOne has been scooping up customers, but...

Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc 7/5/2018

I would like to like DevonThink, but I still have fits trying to use it on multiple computers. Eaglefiler, to me, seems more like a place to collect PDF files. And it doesn't appear to have had any ne...

Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta 7/5/2018

Circus Ponies closed with some barbs thrown at Microsoft and, perhaps, Google. I don't like Microsoft's predatory behavior (which caused the collapse of Netmanage Ecco). I tried to use OmniOutliner as...

Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta 7/4/2018

I have never found a suitable replacement for Notetaker. I had read that many attorneys liked Circus Ponies Notebook for keeping legal notes, and they were looking for a replacement when Circus Ponies...

Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta 7/4/2018

So far, the beta seems stable. There was a glitch in getting my Mac configured for it (permissions), but that was corrected immediately, and I've had no crashes so far. It's looking good.

Aquaminds NoteTaker 4 is in beta 7/1/2018

I am eager to try the beta as soon as possible. I worked on OmniOutline's beta for their current version, and I definitely found some issues (keystrokes that would decimate the notes fields), but I di...

Agenda 5/22/2018

I have pretty much relied on Agenda to the exclusion of other time-management apps, and just got an iPad Pro 10.5 (and Brydge keyboard), so I was very happy to hear that Agenda on iOS. The iPad Pro is...

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