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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...
Curio and Devonthink
6/2/2022
Having great fun with the latest version of Curio. It can function like an outliner on steroids.
The notes for each chapter or subdivision of a story can go in idea spaces (like pages, or corkboards)...
It kills my creativity to think someone might read my half-baked ideas. My "cloud" is an encrypted thumb drive, Devonthink's synchronize to a local data store, and Chronosync for everything outside of...
FastMindMap
5/23/2022
Heptabase looks very nice. The subscription puts me off a little.
I see that it will work offline, but does that mean I can use it without putting anything in the cloud? I like to work from various s...