Lothar Scholz
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Scrivener 3 is on the way…
10/4/2017
Another programmer here. OSX software was terrible for development and the restrictions were high compared to windows until around Yosemite/2010. I would say that the first OSX you could really use f...
Any Windows users here ?
9/1/2017
I'm using Linux, Windows, MacOS. Currently my workstation runs a Linux Ubuntu Desktop where i use developer programs and Atom for markdown notes. Our private computer in the garden is MacOS where i sp...
Dellu wrote:
> Have you read "Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with
>Library and Internet Materials". Tinderbox WAY is similar to that. But,
>I think Digital Paper goes to more detai...
I'm adding more Doom and Gloom:
Microsoft is doomed!
At least it is for me. I thought after removing mobile first they got back to improve my workstation desktop. But now all they want do is clou...
Has anyone seen this book and can tell me what they think about it?
Tinderbox with $250 is too expensive for me to buy but i love to read good books about information management.
>My guess is that the analysis would show that the bet is: introducing a
>subscription might cause my customer base to drop 20-30% temporarily,
>the cash flow from monthly fee would offset the loss,...
Why are tags considered binary?
3/31/2017
I was only thinking about the user experience.
At the moment i consider tagging information as a an already learned task which is performed by people. I guess we technical guys often total underestim...
Why are tags considered binary?
3/30/2017
I mean either a tag is assigned to some information or not.
Lets assume i have a photo showing horses in a forrest. The horses are in the foreground and huge.
Why can't i tag this photo as "#animals...
RightNote version 4
3/28/2017
Buying a lifetime option when the author just told us that his program might die soon does feel a bit strange.
I would feel like i buy some are grave flowers.
Lets see how much technical debt RightNo...
Novlr - novel writing app
2/20/2017
I think they try the basic capitalist business model here:
If you don't have enough customers you have to raise the prices to pay your bills.
.... oh wait ....
Tagspaces
12/8/2016
You mean the program with this name or the general idea of tag spaces/clouds ?
I haven't used the program but when you check the references section in the wikipedia page for tag clouds you find a lot...
> Paul Korm wrote:
> Might be possible -- what are you using as your source code editor?
I'm using a few. What i would need is some scripting features to add it.
I find it remarkable that so many o...
Thanks, yes something like Quiver looks nice.
Wish only i could mark some points and ranges in source code and refer to them.
If you are programming do you store ideas, designs decisions etc. in an outliner?
What and how do you use it?
I'm currently using scrapbook for Firefox and it's great for saving pages but not to add my own notes and annotations to it. Either the tools have the same restriction in features or they are doing ve...
Free Form Database Markdown ?
2/24/2016
YAML is a nice suggestion. I just think that it is a bit to fragile for hand editing. Especially if nested and you want markup inside a field.
Also strict YAML does not offer the ability to have the...
Free Form Database Markdown ?
2/24/2016
Well what i want is that you can have a text document and then you can "stamp" data records in it. For example a document representing a company with the typical name, address fields but also some pro...
Free Form Database Markdown ?
2/24/2016
>Org mode is using the property drawer for it with a plain text markup,
>see here http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-syntax.html
Oh yes, i forgot the answer is always 42 or Emacs.
>They are not te...
Curious Evernote testing qualifier
2/24/2016
Paul Korm wrote:
> Do we get a different version of the software based on age? Is this
>even a legal question?
Maybe they want customize the font sizes based on your age?
Free Form Database Markdown ?
2/24/2016
Hello, this my first post. I'm currently working on another Information Organizer Software so this will not be the last posting, be prepared.
I'm curious if there is some markdown for data fields. ...