Amontillado
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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...
My objection to everything going in one big file in Ulysses is that I didn't want one database to rule them all. Blog posts, novel(s), letters to fussy Aunt Mabel, essays, and whatever other drivel I ...
I have fond memories of Ulysses. Scrivener was my first foray into a writing studio application. It was great, but it lacked styles back in Version 2.
When Version 3 came out, I found I didn't like s...
I've written some in Markdown. I'm glad it's available.
At the other end of the spectrum, I get good use out of Mellel, but currently I'm straying back to Nisus Writer Pro, my other go-to word proces...
Voidtools Everything
4/11/2022
Bill, you forgot that lovely Unix heart beating inside MacOS. But it's OK. It just works. You don't have to think about it. :-)
Wow - sounds like you've invested a lot of care in your work. Very nice.
Heptabase
2/23/2022
Extremely interesting. The subscription plan nudges me away, but I guess I have to get used to subscriptions.
Heptabase addresses what I consider a missing feature in Curio. An idea can be relevant i...
Docxmanager and Scrivener
2/4/2022
Listerene wrote:
>I have an iron-clad rule: Your program hurts me -- and that one did -- I
>will (A) never trust you with anything ever again and (B) I will tell
>everyone about how incompetent you ar...