Amontillado
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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...
FastMindMap
5/21/2022
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Hi Amontillado:
>
>Amontillado, I am curious about what you said of having "a positive
>feeling about the developer". Is that because of the way the site
>presents FastMindMap, ...
FastMindMap
5/21/2022
I'm not a Windows user these days. But if I were, I'd check this out if for no other reason than a positive feeling about the developer.
FastMindMap, apparently formerly known as MindVisualizer.
htt...
Privacy Question
5/17/2022
This is why I like plain text email. Nothing hides in it.
KeepIt vs Notebooks vs FSnotes
5/17/2022
Dellu wrote:
Thank you Bill. That is right.
>
>Another great feature I forget is the tabbed separate window. I like
>opening two or three documents that I am working on in a separate
>window;and ed...
Dellu wrote:
>The great thing about Keep it (in contrast to Devonthink) is it makes
>your notes visible. DT puts them into the jungle. You need a fine tuned
>system to make your notes stand out. ...
Musings on tools for thought
5/12/2022
satis wrote:
>FYI I just visited Reddit's fountain pen forum and was shocked to learn
>that Tardif just put his foot in it again
What a shame. Did you know Isaac Newton's personal recipe for iron ...
Musings on tools for thought
5/10/2022
I enjoyed reading that. I'd be crippled if I had to stop using computers.
However, I've found that I like to think with a fountain pen. It's both primitive and elegant, fragile and self-sustaining.
It's going to be pretty cool, I think.
I've been more eager for the synched text figures, but I've also thought indexing a directory in Devonthink and also importing the same directory into Curio cou...
I used Trees 2 a long time ago. I mourned its loss. Dashword looks nice.
Omnigroup has somewhat sidelined its outline offering, I think.
OmniOutliner bugs me most by its implementation of styles. Fo...
Good point. Each one has brought some features. Better, though, that earlier quirks seem to be under control.
I'm currently using Curio as a corkboard/story outliner. It won't replace Devonthink, for...
The development is aggressive. It's on version 21 now, 22 soon.
I've been able in the past to find layout irregularities, but they were never all that bad. The current version has no bad habits I'm a...
I see from the Zengobi web site the next version of Curio (Mac only) will support something like transclusion.
A text snippet (a text figure, in Curio's lexicon) can appear like a Devonthink replican...
Numbers is an unsung hero for story planning. I wish there was a way to put arrows or lines between text blocks that stick. When you drag a text block it leaves lines behind.
I also wish there was a ...
In the end, it's what you do with software, not what software does for you.
Yes, I know. I'm a heretic, but I think I'm redeemable. I'm still looking for the perfect outliner. It's out there, somewhe...
The thinkboards and pinboards look very innovative. In fact, it's a shame they aren't more common in word processors.
Edwin Yip has been promoting similar ideas for a long time in DocxManager. If I w...