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Broader musings
7/31/2022
Perception of value is a skill.
Broader musings
7/26/2022
WFH is different, but I've been doing it since about 2002. Covid was a tragedy but did not affect my work life.
I use Timelime (that's how it's spelled) to track what I spend my days on when projects...
Lady Bumps and Data Dumps
7/24/2022
AWK is a great tool for the case where you want to read a file line by line, doing some transformation on each line, or on lines fitting a pattern.
Learn regular expressions first, then tackle AWK.
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Well, here is the danger of posting on the Internet while taking calls.
I remember shortly after hitting "post" I saw a second browser open to outlinersoftware.com. I must have started in one window...
$6.6 million in venture capital. That's nothing compared to Microsoft's budget for Office development, I guess, but a small team can work wonders.
Will be interesting to see if anything comes from it...
Maps e.g., etc.
7/19/2022
Well, respectfully, the difference between a mind map and an outline is generally depiction. MindNode offers two views, for example, your outline or your mind map.
My current favorite planning tool f...
Craft 2.0 - For Everyone!
7/17/2022
Craft is certainly easy on the eyes. That's more than fluff, in my opinion.
A tool that builds attractive presentations helps tickle enthusiasm receptors in the brain.
I have no idea if enthusiasm r...
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:
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>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...