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Dextronet bundle 48 hour sale
1/10/2023
About $95 for Swift To-Do, Tree Notes, Mind Collected, and Fast Paste. These utilities are Windows-only.
I've heard Swift To-Do criticized for aesthetics. Personally, the look never bothered me and I...
Winterfest 2022 sale
12/29/2022
Hyper Plan is an undiscovered gem. I use it as an early warning system for bills on monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles. When I pay a bill, I don't change its status to paid or anything like checkin...
New app, Bike
12/21/2022
I bought Bike as an outliner. I wish it had tag filtering, but I also like what MadaboutDana observed. Bike is more like an enhanced text editor that will support outlines.
Regarding tag filtering, b...
New app, Bike
12/20/2022
+1 for tagging. Imagine you're writing a linear outline for a story with three plot threads. It would be nice to see the just the rows for Arc One, or Arc Two, or whatever.
The nicest thing about Bik...
It's interesting to hear how others work. That bit about tools shaping users is true. I think I get my best ideas for how to organize by getting a feel for common practices in tools I may never use.
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New app, Bike
12/20/2022
Linking to a row, that's pretty neat - but how do you get back to the full outline?
I see that command click will open the row in a new tab. Is that the best use of links to rows?
Nice! I like the Bruce Lee quote.
Obsidian, One Note, whatever you use for organizing knowledge makes you aware of epistemology, and that's a good thing even if the word sounds like an old guy's snee...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
Hi, ShiJianhui,
How do you find the new release of Tinderbox? I haven't had time to use it yet.
ShiJianhui wrote:
Do you mean something like this? --> https://imgur.com/a/IRD6Zz1
>Hiding 'actual con...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
That model of infinite canvas with objects on it goes back for years in Numbers.
Much more flexible for my needs than Excel. That's a personal preference, of course.
Tinderbox v9 released
12/11/2022
Tinderbox 9.5 is out. I have a few months left on my updates, so I've installed it.
So far, it's not crashing on my system, something I saw on previous releases.
Also so far, I keep gravitating back...
The Longform team could take a few hints from Canvas. Longform is great, but as far as I see there's no way to add an existing note to a Longform project. You can transclude an existing note into a Lo...
Point well made. In truth, I've never run Dynalist and am not familiar with it at all. I saw "Dynalist" on the Paypal receipt and jumped to conclusions.
Paul Korm wrote:
I wouldn't call Obsidian a "c...
Interesting - Obsidian is a companion product from the same two or three people who created Dynalist. If you pay for the insider version of Obsidian, Paypal reports it as a payment to Dynalist.
As many canvasses as I want? How disappointing - I don't deserve things that nice!
I'm also a complete dolt. I thought Obsidian's entry level was a $25 subscription. I was wrong. $25 isn't that much ...
Nice. Tempting to subscribe to get this feature now.
Do you know if you can have multiple whiteboards?
New app, Bike
11/29/2022
I'm starting to suspect that CRIMPing may be strategic to the point of letting the rest of the world think it's crazy.
Obsidian is on a Windows box I'm cursed with for work. It's almost nice enough t...
New app, Bike
11/29/2022
I took Jesse up on his ten dollar offer. First impressions are very positive. I haven't tried the long file scroll test. For outline-sized files, it's working fine.
I'm hoping to replace OmniOutliner...
Obsidian 1.0
11/23/2022
Here's an interesting plugin - longform, which is for writing stuff in sections. Pardon me if this runs a little long. It's hard to type, keep a train of thought running, and hyperventilate with child...
Discourse map!
11/22/2022
Flying Logic came out with an update today, free to any already with a version 3 license.
I've always thought it was cool, but it never really worked for me like I hoped it would. The problem is my p...
Discourse map!
11/20/2022
No argument. Scapple should be viewed in context with Scrivener. A great combination.
Curio has in the past had rough edges. At present, it's generally polished.
It's also always seemed a little old...
Discourse map!
11/19/2022
Tinderbox's official documentation could stand some work. The community supported aTbRef is far superior.
Some of the distinctions in Tinderbox are easy to lose track of, like the meanings of agents,...
Discourse map!
11/19/2022
Curiously, I'm not far from giving Tinderbox another serious trial run. I've always been disgusted by the convergence of promise and utter frustration. That's where Tinderbox always fell.
A few days ...
Robot writing apps
11/15/2022
Iron gall on vellum was so much nicer than cuneiform on clay. Then came the bittersweet moment when geese celebrated keeping their feathers the day we traded quills for fountain pens. We, least of all...
Robot writing apps
11/11/2022
A great man once said, "A man ain't nothing but a man, but before I let a steam drill beat me down I'd die with a hammer in my hand."
I may die with a pen in my hand, but I'll die with ringing prose,...
Affinity has released version 2 of their Publisher/Photo/Designer suite. Introductory price, $99 one-time. No subscription. As best I can tell, it's an Adobe killer.
Lots of improvements, including f...