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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...
SheetPlanner 4
11/6/2022
Yes, that does look intriguing. I look forward to your update!
I believe I remember TheBrain has a pretty spiffy web export feature.
Devonthink's (very pricey) web server is nice. I am treasurer for a non-profit. Every record we've got is in a physical file cabi...
Seeking the productive life
11/3/2022
Interesting. I'd heard some of his lifestyle before.
Funny how society can look down on practical things. His walking desk setup might look like something out of a Far Side cartoon but it's probably...
WritingOutliner revived
10/26/2022
I see by email that Edwin Yip has revived his original project, WritingOutliner, a plug-in for Microsoft Word. He had originally set WritingOutliner aside to develop DocxManager.
Now, both projects w...
Of Obsidian and Devonthink
10/24/2022
Cool!
22111 wrote:
>In a word then: Outlining's just an ordering instrument, between mesh
>reality / mesh conception, and then serial, linear presentation, but
>don't be as naive, or dishonest, as to make ...
Of Obsidian and Devonthink
10/24/2022
Is there a plugin to allow arbitrary reordering of the notes in a folder? That's handy to be able to do.
Of Obsidian and Devonthink
10/23/2022
I've started using an under-appreciated feature in Devonthink that is proving to be extremely nice. It's enough to sidetrack me from Obsidian despite the normally undeniable pathology of CRIMPing.
Yo...
22111 wrote:
>But then, there's simply NO iCrap alternative for Android's aGrep (!),
>and there's - much! - worse then, and here, I can't say I've checked: I
>just rely on third parties' observations:...
This forum is a time capsule
10/13/2022
This forum isn't just a time capsule, it's a great community. I appreciate the chance to hang out here.
Any tool is what you make of it. I think of Ulysses as a bad outliner the same way I think of Word as a bad spreadsheet.
That's not what either is for.
The trap I fall into with traditional outlines...
That is indeed interesting. Maybe creative people have an extra does of pareidolia, the false recognition of familiar patterns in random noise. Faces on Mars, that sort of thing.
Maybe I should go st...
Outlining is writing in shorthand. It's not dimensionally limited unless the writer is. An outline is a map, not a prison. Dammit, Jim, I'm a writer, not a jailer. You can't hold me responsible for wh...
Capacities: a new mega PKIM App
9/12/2022
Ammonite looks very interesting! I'm going to check that out.
Capacities: a new mega PKIM App
9/11/2022
bigspud wrote:
Kinda made me think,
>'what if Devonthink styled like notion'?
I wish Devonthink supported alternate UI's. For example, imagine a graph view like Obsidian.
There is a Devonthink s...
xTiles will launch on Product Hunt
9/9/2022
Urgent best wishes to those imperiled by tyranny.
My heart goes out to you.
Andrew Tabunshchik wrote:
Hey, creative fellows!
>
>I'm Andrey, one of the co-founders of xTiles.app
>
>We are delighted t...
I completely agree. Transclusion is a key feature for any knowledge system. You get context, it solves "compiling" documents for export, it slices, it dices...
Obsidian keeps catching my eye, even th...
Obsidian is cool. I've got it on a crash-and-burn box.
I wish the graph view had a configurable limit. I've seen situations where a document one hop from the current center is off-screen while docume...