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'I Deleted My Second Brain'
7/14/2025
Interesting post from Joan Westernberg, who has written for years in major publications about technology, creativity, and lifehacking. This piece discusses why Joan decided to nuke their Obsidian vaul...
Gingko
7/4/2025
jaslar wrote:
> Does the concept live on? Where?
I completely forgot about a free Mac app (with one-time $4.99 unlock) I wrote about here last November called 'Outliner: Scroll'
https://www.outli...
Gingko
7/4/2025
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I don't know that it has been updated recently, although the pricing
>has. They had had a "pay what you want" option, which no longer seems to
>be the case.
GingkoWriter alwa...
Gingko
7/4/2025
jaslar wrote:
Fellow CRIMPers:
>
>The developer seems to have moved to Obsidian.
That would be rich, considering that Adriano is still charging $117/yr for the GingkoWriter service. But are you sur...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>when I wanted to export the data and import it in a usable way
>into Excel, I just couldn't. I dropped the list into Dynalist, and had
>the same problem. I dropped it into Omn...
novelWriter
6/10/2025
Since it hasn't been mentioned here before, I thought I would highlight novelWriter -- a free, open-source plain text editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux, designed specifically for writing novels and o...
A milestone of sorts with v.0.9 released over the weekend.
https://mastodon.social/@tangentnotes/114642658023646284
https://www.tangentnotes.com/
Lucine wrote:
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>Apple's Calendar app on macOS, and Fantastical can print day, week,
>>month, year, or date range events for any range of dates.
>
>Fantastical looks interesting a...
Sublime is out of beta
5/28/2025
Michael Dean, an architect-turned-writer, was recently awarded an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship Grant to develop Essay Architecture. He found 2nd brain apps weren't working for him so he started usin...
Sublime is out of beta
5/28/2025
This is a service whose data is by default private, but offers people the *ability* to share data and have it remixed and shared. Don't want to share data? You don't have to. Denying the value and pop...
Sublime is out of beta
5/26/2025
I've been using the free version. (50 cards, 3 private collections, limitations to related-cards and integrations.) The app will improve over time, but what will be really exciting is if it takes off ...
Sublime is out of beta
5/25/2025
Good overview, and comparison to Notion (which I don't see as a direct competitor, but the author calls a Notion clone).
https://medium.com/@theo-james/sublime-app-review-another-notion-clone-3eef67e...
Sublime is out of beta
5/25/2025
It seems like it takes shoebox & search/related-search concepts from DevonThink, then adds the option of a sharing/importing component, with storage flexibility, as a service.
Any info goes onto a C...
Sublime is out of beta
5/25/2025
New pkm app out after 18 months in private beta.
https://sublime.app/
https://sublime.app/pricing
Welcome guide (old version?): https://sublimeapp.notion.site/Welcome-to-Sublime-e377615d0874406aad...
Pocket is closing down
5/25/2025
Steve wrote:
The bookmark created on my phone is not for saving the article, it is a
>bookmark to read later on my computer.
That's my point. It's a bookmark, whereas I save the actual article imme...
Pocket is closing down
5/23/2025
Steve wrote:
> I now have Zoho's Notebook
>https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ on my devices.
>You "send" or "Share" the Email, website, RSS feed, to Notebook and it
>creates a bookmark in the specific...
Pocket is closing down
5/23/2025
Wow. Thanks for that info.
After using Pocket for over a decade I think I chose not to renew last month (most recent price was $45/year), and copied over several hundred saved Pocket articles to a fo...
Blackwell Idealist
5/22/2025
Individuals should not be sharing commercial software because even abandonware has copyright protection.
Some sites have DMCA exemptions as a recognized library to distribute abandonware.
https://...
What's Up With Walling?
5/21/2025
Apparently some poor coding decisions were made at Walling's outset and they provided a poor foundation to build on. This is going to cost them.
I assume the service will see an exodus of regular use...
Lucine wrote:
> if you suggest Evernote, why not OneNote instead? It's free,
>unlimited and has more features than Evernote right?
I personally don't like or use either, and OneNote excels in some...
Notion fits somewhat but there's only manual links and not direct PDF highlight linking last I looked. It's flexible and has a generous free plan for students/academics, with unlimited blocks/pages.
...
MadaboutDana wrote:
> hence my switch to Obsidian (Sync costs less than
> half what even the Personal version of Noteplan costs
This is one of those cases where getting a SetApp subscription (whi...
Craft.do Subscription Sale (50% off)
4/19/2025
(Correction: 30-day trial)
Craft.do Subscription Sale (50% off)
4/19/2025
Craft has been doing a lot of sales. In February they offered a "Lunar New Year" sale with a 40%-off lifetime discount, and on Black Friday they offered 50%-off for life.
The current deal at https://...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Amontillado wrote:
>I'm surprised text editing can be affected by database size.
This was an issue for me with DT1 and got worse in DT2. Severe typing lag. One of several reasons (including not n...