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Craft 2.0 - For Everyone!
7/17/2022
Nothing to argue about here. Bill's words were wise, and it is practical to use just about anything. In fact, consider more than one tool.
That said, there are things about Devonthink that keep me ca...
CRIMPing in multiple axes
7/13/2022
Nice approach, and yes, and exactly in line with my quest - methods to press software into service better than following the beaten path.
Napkin looks really cool. Wish it weren't an online app, thou...
CRIMPing in multiple axes
7/12/2022
Trying different writing software introduces new ideas for planning.
Finding new ways to use existing capabilities has merit, too. I call it CAMPing, because it must have a properly academic acronym ...
Thanks for your insight. I figured there was a catch.
Still, though, for those wanting Word, Excel, and the rest and content with the current versions it sounds pretty nice.
Plop DocxManager on top ...
Or, maybe this is real. I saw this elsewhere and thought I would pass it on.
https://www.popsci.com/gear/lifetime-microsoft-office-sale/
Microsoft Office lifetime license for $39.99.
I'm not a Word...
Lady Bumps and Data Dumps
7/11/2022
22111 wrote:
>And here again: Alleged, self-proclaimed writers, show us you write:
>enliven our day, don't apply us your it's-good-enough-there: we deserve
>better.
Paraphrasing Myra Welch,
Twas bat...
Lady Bumps and Data Dumps
7/10/2022
I'm not sure of the reference to "lady bumps" in this topic title. I am as quizzical, if I may join this celebration of the non sequitur, as a young Mark Knopfler who once wondered of a tragic victim,...
Summerfest 2022
6/23/2022
Here's a vote for Andy's work. Very nice, very polished, and Easy Data Plan is particularly useful. If you have a mountain of data to extract meaning from, EDT is great.
Andy Brice wrote:
The bi-annu...
Great day for updates!
6/22/2022
Ulysses is snazzed up, Apple Pages now does mail merge, and Devonthink has released a bunch of fixes and feature enhancements.
Just in time for my annual tax data analysis, Easy Data Transform gets n...
Outlining and exporting opml files
6/20/2022
Tullio wrote:
>
>I know Mellel very well and its combination with Bookends is perfect.
>But Mellel does not provide any ressources section like Scrivener does.
Quite so, I didn't realize Scriv-lik...
Outlining and exporting opml files
6/19/2022
Pandoc will also write opml. A quick test indicated all input formats may not be useful. I didn't get any output when I read a docx file, for example. I was hoping the headers would appear as topics.
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Maps e.g., etc.
6/18/2022
Styles are de rigueur for presentation. Composing within styles is, to me, a small price to pay for the flexibility. A lot of what Scrivener does with its compile feature can be done with styles.
Aeo...
Maps e.g., etc.
6/17/2022
Regarding Mont Blanc pens, I'm not in that crowd. Truth to tell, I've got a desk set of four TWSBI Vac 700's in fine, medium, broad, and stub, plus three Opus 88's for my backpack in fine, medium, and...
More on Curio Sync'd Instances
6/16/2022
So far, I've used file-backed and synced text almost interchangeably. The difference is whether the source for a cloned instance of a note is inside Curio or in a separate text file. Either way, the o...
Maps e.g., etc.
6/15/2022
22111, I'm happy to see some consistency between my 2019 and 2022 selves, but count me more as a pilgrim than an oracle. I continue to seek paths that work. Frankly, I hope that never changes.
More on Curio Sync'd Instances
6/14/2022
That’s my target use for the new synced text. Notes that are relevant in multiple places in a story plan.
Curio and Devonthink
6/14/2022
Thanks for that link and you're right. Curio is expensive. I don't have OneNote on my Macs because of the Microsoft marketing juggernaut. GrowlyNotes, totally different.
Looks impressive.
iA Writer now has wikilinks
6/14/2022
Agreed, very nice. You can navigate your history, too with control-command-left/right arrow.
90% of what I've used personal wikis for in the past boils down to hyperlinks.
Perhaps they are feeling s...
Musings on tools for thought
6/12/2022
Daly de Gagne wrote:
This thread was about tools for thought - fountain pens are tools for
>thought, and not just items for collectors. Your disdain is somewhat
>offensive in this context.
>
My fi...
I wanted a Remarkable. Still do, in fact. But I also discovered a silly fascination with fountain pens.
You can spend a fortune on good paper, or you can write on card stock. Regular Walmart 5x8 inde...
I agree, a fun read, quite a bit more so than most articles about the pursuit of distraction free devices.
My Alphasmart Neo was a way to write on a small sailboat without fear of dropping a thousand...
Maps e.g., etc.
6/9/2022
I'm a little lost. The links 22111 posted don't work for me. What is "UI"? User interface? Of what?
If my comments about a reader's experience being sequential where a traditional outline is a hierar...
Curio and Devonthink
6/9/2022
For my use, the coolest thing is multiple instances of file-backed text or the new synced text.
Where an outline fails for story planning is context. Probably Tinderbox would be an answer.
Curio's l...
Maps e.g., etc.
6/6/2022
When I first decided I needed to learn to love outlines if I wanted decent productivity I went a little crazy.
Now, I've decided that making a hierarchical model is a good way for categorizing facts ...
Curio and Devonthink
6/3/2022
It's a cool combination.
I've had a Curio license for a long time, although I had retired Curio from most use. Older versions have minor stability issues. Nothing too serious, but enough to be frustr...