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NotePlan 3 public beta (and subscription) 5/1/2021

NotePlan now has a small, vibrant Discord community. https://discord.gg/D4268MT Eduard is participating fairly regularly. Recently he discussed how with "about 1.6k project notes and 1.9k calendar ...

UpNote continues to improve 5/1/2021

Looks nice, but aside from the Windows and Android support it resembles a half dozen free and cheap non-subscription apps in the Apple ecosystem, including Apple Notes. For example I think SnipNotes ...

Curio 15 is out 4/29/2021

Release notes here https://www.zengobi.com/curio/releasenotes/?v=15 PDF Manual https://www.zengobi.com/curio/docs/15/Curio Documentation.pdf

How do I change password? 4/28/2021

People using Google’s keychain get warned with that message if a user password is found to have been leaked but my understanding is that warning language is used with passwords *reused* on multi...

Totally off-piste, but... 4/27/2021

xtabber wrote: >The iMac is perfect as a point-of-sale system for trendy boutiques and I >suspect many will be sold for that purpose. Apple has a global PC marketshare of around 10%, and last brea...

Totally off-piste, but... 4/26/2021

Pierre Paul Landry wrote: >And the next time you suffer a power failure and lose your >precious work, you'll regret not buying a battery powered >device. I keep my desktop on 24/7, and my backup ...

Totally off-piste, but... 4/26/2021

MadaboutDana wrote: Hm, I think you’re talking about the older Mac Minis &#8211 No I'm not. The current minis have two USB-A ports on them, and Thunderbolt 3. The new mid/high-end iMacs hav...

Notejoy iOS and Android Apps 4/26/2021

Didn't get to finish, sorry. Yes, if you're not on an Apple device it's only accessible via the web app. But it's free for anyone who has or sets up a free iCloud account, and easy to play with.

Notejoy iOS and Android Apps 4/26/2021

Easy to find out if it is for you. Just try it.

Totally off-piste, but... 4/26/2021

Decent 4K displays are in the $600 range, and the minis only have USB-A (compared to all USB-C [w/2 Thunderbolt] on iMac, and the mini has poorer graphics. I specced out a single Mac Mini with a good ...

Updates from the Roam Research multiverse 4/25/2021

Athens is starting to shape up nicely. The free tier must be self-hosted, and as a Roam clone the User tier is a comparatively-reasonable $72/yr. Nice overview video here https://www.loom.com/share/e...

Notejoy iOS and Android Apps 4/25/2021

Apple Notes is free, and you can access it on Android by logging into iCloud.

braintool 4/23/2021

Chrome is a RAM hog, so people with limited memory might indeed have problems in some circumstances. I currently have 45 tabs open in Brave, in three different windows. Never had a problem, but my mac...

Totally off-piste, but... 4/23/2021

I love the looks in general, and the deep, saturated back and sides appeal to me. However I'm not attracted to the pastel front part and base, so I'm likely to purchase a 4.5K iMac model in Boring Old...

braintool 4/22/2021

You can stick with Chromium while leaving Chrome. Ungoogled Chromium, Brave Browser and others will let you use the tremendous variety of Chrome extensions while having the tracking innards of Chrome ...

A significant development with Craft 4/22/2021

Hey co-founder Jason Fried wanted to offer users more room than a tweetstorm, while sidestepping contentious or raucous commenting. He ays the blogs are an experiment for now, and the company is going...

A significant development with Craft 4/21/2021

Back to Craft: Drafts app now has an Action that integrates with it. https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/1kp

A significant development with Craft 4/21/2021

I find the static site generating tools to be interesting but you still need to host the files yourself (Dropbox is a common option, but it's not always trouble-free). I prefer have greater flexibilit...

The Ivy Lee Method + Analog 4/20/2021

I've become attached to using an all-purpose electronic Inbox into which I can enter or voice-transcribe ideas and tasks while on the go, and then sort them into task lists later. When I'm sitting at ...

A significant development with Craft 4/20/2021

Something between Hey's 'Hey World' email-to-weblog service and Notion's publish-to-web would be attractive. (That said, I would still recommend people create a free managed blog at wordpress.com and ...

The Ivy Lee Method + Analog 4/19/2021

The Whole Earth catalog was onto that a decade ago (and their recommendations repeat-filter out through the Recommendo site from that mag's Kevin Kelly) https://kk.org/cooltools/levenger-pocket/ And...

A significant development with Craft 4/19/2021

The fact that it's got Markdown and lets you choose between saving files locally/iCloud/Dropbox (the latter Mac-only) and outputs such nicely formatted files makes it a real replacement for a lot of t...

A significant development with Craft 4/18/2021

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Craft seems like it could be an ideal journal, and that's what I'm going >to use it for first and foremost. I really like what they've done with it, and I've paid for a month'...

A significant development with Craft 4/18/2021

There's also a TiddlyWiki plugin which implements Andy's Gingko-like slide-out notes. https://crazko.github.io/krystal/ but the number of recommended plugins, which require attention and periodic up...

Transno 4/13/2021

I figured out my issue. The Privacy Badger extension was blocking the login popup and images. uBlock Origin continues to work, however, and it blocked tracked from googletagmanager and byteoversea, Am...

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