jaslar
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Airtable
12/1/2015
Yep. Sorry. Although "airbase" would be a cool name for a cloud based product.
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
11/30/2015
Simple, it ain't!
I suppose the "elegance" is what appears to be the goal of the religion of Emacs: to live entirely within it. And *I* certainly won't be doing any coding myself - I'm still working ...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
11/29/2015
I'm continuing to explore emacs org-mode. I learned four things today that might help or be of interest to others.
1. "M-x auto-fill-mode" is a toggle that turns on/off the addition of a hard return ...
Airtable
11/27/2015
I just happened to run across this software today - and it looks to be a pretty interesting way to do CRM (Customer Relations Management). Did any of you who liked it early on stick with it? I looked ...
Happy Thanksgiving
11/26/2015
This is my favorite American holiday. Stay home, eat turkey, and remember what you're grateful for.
I am thankful for this forum, and the knowledge and insights of the people who hang out here.
Enjo...
Building own knowledge database
11/26/2015
Do look at Notecase Pro. http://www.notecasepro.com/
Like Treepad (a two pane hierarchical note-taker). But under active development, multi-platform, very responsive developer and community, and with...
Gedit as a markdown/outliner
11/22/2015
Like a lot of Linux users, I have always liked Gedit - a clean, simple text editor. But unlike some others (Haroopad), Gedit offered spell check. Now I see it has a markdown mode, has a downloadable p...
Omniflow.io becomes Dynalist.io
11/12/2015
Well, Abiword mimicked Word. OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice recreate the feel and functions of MS Office. Windows sought to capture the graphic ease of the Mac. Writemonkey aped (hah) WriteRoom. So I ...
Omniflow.io becomes Dynalist.io
11/11/2015
That's the first bit of news. Development work continues on Dynalist, a sort of Workflowy clone with folders. They've been working to get feature parity with Workflowy, and are also promising some enh...
de-CRIMPing
11/7/2015
Although I can't lay my hands on it at the moment, I remember reading a study about (non-dementia related) decline of grammatical complexity as we age. That is, there is a natural tendency to simplify...
Has Smartdown died?
11/4/2015
Darn it, I LIKE that program (and bought it). Honestly, bye and bye, we'll all be using org-mode because it's the only thing still under active development (since the early 1970s!). There's something ...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
10/23/2015
Old but hilarious page about being seduced by emacs.
http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2010/02/org-mode-in-your-pocket-is-a-gnu-shaped-devil/
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
10/21/2015
I've been spending some time today with org-mode. And I realized: when I got my Kaypro (back in 1982) it came with Perfect Writer, which was a sort of emacs subset. So some of those commands are in my...
I see that Hog Bay's mangomarkdown.com web folding markdown editor site is also down. (Oakoutliner.com is still up, though.) Mangomarkdown was another cool idea that never QUITE a made it to my use-it...
Well, I'm sorry to see that. I think Steve Z is right: Hog Bay now has a solid rep for producing genius products that lose steam.
On the other hand, the TaskPaper format really is brilliant. And alt...
I use an Android phone and tablet. I've paid for SimpleMind (mind mapper), Outliner Pro (whose interface seems to lose the big picture, although it syncs with Treepad on the desktop), Grapevine (a sin...
Note case review for Mac
9/12/2015
Some good tips here for folks looking for Linux and Mac hierarchical notebooks. Some interesting critiques of Notecase's website, too.
http://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/notecase-pro-review-cross-...
NoteCase question
9/4/2015
True. You can link to the file - and clicking will open it - but you can't cut and paste the fully formatted file into an outline.
Checkvist and customer responsiveness
8/26/2015
Based on comments here, I tried to use Checkvist not as a PIM but as a writing tool (for a longer article). While it doesn't have the streamlined simplicity of Workflowy, I found it by far the most ca...
Dropbox's Hackpad to be open sourced
8/24/2015
Described as a collaborative note-taker.Anybody tried it?
Article here: http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/21/dropbox-finally-open-sources-its-hackpad-collaborative-document-editor/
Website here: https:...
Search-as-you-Type
8/10/2015
I can't speak to how it compares feature-for-feature with AskSam, but Workflowy does this quite well.
A bit of CRIMP related humor
8/5/2015
Brilliant, funny, true. The truth, of course, is that we can only keep track of a maximum of 7 things. Probably only four of them matter. The point of all these systems is to try to actually get to th...
I finally had a chance to download and test. I'm deeply appreciative of programmers who create tools for the rest of us, and I've shared a more extensive version of my comments with him on his site. I...
Corkboard apps
7/26/2015
I was updating some apps on my old iPad 2 and saw "Index Card Board for iPad." On the one hand, I can see the appeal: index cards are a natural metaphor, with a kinesthetic sense of manipulating the d...
PIM for Linux and Win7?
7/13/2015
Yes, Workflowy. Sorry for the typo. And upon reflection, I realize that I more often review the tasks than the big picture. My big Workflowy categories do help in that, though.