Amontillado
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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...
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.