jaslar
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Outliner for nonfiction book
11/5/2018
Well, emacs/orgmode is available on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's free. There's a learning curve to be sure, but also an amazing number of powerful commands. One I can't believe every word processor d...
Outliner for nonfiction book
10/31/2018
Have you looked at Lyx? Not exactly an outliner, but designed for books, based on structured text.
I second Airtable. It's cloud-based, but powerful, intuitive, and there's a free version. Feels like a spreadsheet, but in fact a relational database. Also very configurable, but the defaults ate same...
Blurt
9/28/2018
Here's another online writing app with "outlining." But outlining here seems to mean something like onscreen structural notes, not part of the document. There's a 15 day trial, otherwise $9.99 a month...
Distraction free mode for Google Docs
9/27/2018
I ran across this extension last night, available for Chrome and Firefox. Here's the Firefox link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distraction-free-google-docs/?src=userprofile
And a v...
Evernote in trouble?
9/13/2018
Yes, Zoho Notebook. Interesting. Great reviews on Google Play. But not all apps work well on all the platforms.Thanks.
Evernote in trouble?
9/13/2018
Zoho's Take Notes recently came up on a "best of" list. Still free, not a bad feature list, web client on PC, has an android app (iOS too, I think). Has anyone given it a test drive?
I'm traveling, so only have phone and Chromebook. How is the speed? Responsive?
Thanks for that. You're right that we talk about many writing tools here, as well as organizing. For me, the "outliner" hook for markdown is folding. Am I correct that this software does not offer tha...
Sorry, Ken. Yes, I meant to make that first link go here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-tasks-app/ - it's from back in April, but at least it's this year! And it does have better email intergrat...
Like many of you, I veer between simple and complex. I used to use Google Tasks, then drifted away. A revamped version is now available, and I found this article from June to be interesting. Tasks has...
improvements to the forum
7/11/2018
Add my voice to the chorus. Thanks, Chris, for the only site I check daily, and whose members are almost always polite, and can be wryly funny, as above.
Yes, ability to edit posts, post images, and ...
Brackets text editor
6/28/2018
CRIMPing away, I poked around some old downloads. I fired up the Atom editor, and it crashed on me. I don't think I'll be coming back, although I like its Taskpaper mode. I loaded the Brackets editor,...
Dynalist update
6/15/2018
I just noticed another update. In addition to being able to add your own CSS, you can make your own keyboard shortcuts for something I've really wanted (and has been available for a long time, probabl...
Different strokes for different folks. I am so UNDISCIPLINED that if I assign a task to a day, and can't get to it, I lose it, of the calendar is the guiding metaphor. So I do better with one list of ...
Wri.pe - web notepad
5/22/2018
In the Agenda thread, someone mentioned Noteplan, a markdown/calendar app. When I was looking at it, I ran across another one called Wri.pe. The tutorial was kind of cool: https://www.youtube.com/watc...
best outliner you use? (2018)
5/22/2018
I tried to install tines on a couple of virtual Linux machines, but it failed. Do you have plans to package it as a .deb or .rpm? I liked where you're taking it.
Larry Kollar wrote:
If you're like me...
Brackets text editor
5/21/2018
I was fiddling around with another open source text editor: Brackets. See http://brackets.io/. So much faster than Atom, but it also had a markdown extension, and folding. It's not quite outlining, bu...
Two Pane Outliner Shootout
5/21/2018
Well done. This surfaces my two real critiques of Dynalist. The first is the inability to move around, without using the mouse, by structure (which Treepad, CherryTree and Notecase Pro all do beautifu...
Truly, Dr. Amdus, I'm fine having people reference their use cases. I often learn a lot that way.
Dynalist serves as my default work dashboard, project notes, and a work preparer. I mange and log the...
My aging Windows 7 laptop is starting to get annoying. A cursor control key popped off, and I suppose I should see if somebody can fix that first. But it may be time to revive the old religious debate...
Well, THAT'S interesting. Let's hope that this particular feature (ability to reorder left pane sections) becomes the next competition for markdown editors.
Comparisons of online outliners
5/17/2018
This is sponsored by Dynalist, so reflects that bias. But what do you all think?
On the list: Dynalist versus WorkFlowy, Moo.do, and Checkvist.
https://dynalist.io/compare
Appreciate the information. I'll take a closer look at it. Using the left pane for outline-like reordering would be close to perfect. But I should be looking into the ownCloud for security reasons, to...
Folding Text 3 -- on the horizon?
5/16/2018
I hear you. On the one hand, so many cool ideas. Taskpaper was brilliant. Folding Text was powerful and simple at the same time. Oakoutliner was really promising.
But the products do seem to evaporat...