Amontillado
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It seems in general there are a lot of things word processors could do, but don't. It's like word processor developers see the horror of Word's original outline mode and stick with formatted text edit...
It would be a little crazy to plan to organize like that, I agree.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Hm. Well, I love the enthusiasm and the meta-Shakespeare. Not quite so
>sure about the concept, to be honestR...
As writers, we're portrayers more than performers. I believe that correctly adapts the analogy from the bard, by which I mean lyricist Neal Peart (Limelight by Rush, 4th track, Moving Pictures).
In m...
TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021
5/8/2021
Here's something cool. A six part series on using Obsidian - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3NaIVgSlAVLHty1-NuvPa9V0b0UwbzBd .
If I weren't so heavily invested - figuratively and literally -...
TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021
5/8/2021
Obsidian is pretty cool. Markdown, YAML front matter on notes for things like aliases.
TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021
5/6/2021
Sounds like I need to look at The Brain again. I fell off the bandwagon at version 8, back in the old days of Java.
Totally off-piste, but...
4/25/2021
tightbeam wrote:
I don't use Macs. I've never used Macs. But these new Macs really do
>tempt me...
I remember seeing a This Week in Tech video that showed an early OSX Mac with the "top" utility ru...
Totally off-piste, but...
4/23/2021
Lothar Scholz wrote:
It's ugly, it's unfunctional, it's unergonomic, it's overpriced and it
>technically was a huge disappointment.
>
All valid concerns, although I get a lot of functionality out o...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/19/2021
I have one of the non-bomber variants. Office Depot sells a version that's about $8 (Oxford something-or-other).
Rite in the Rain has a more outdoorsy version. That's actually my index card EDC. I gu...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/19/2021
Index cards are nice. I always carry a pocket index card wallet for quick notes. Shirt pocket sized pads bug me because I hate to waste a sheet out of a limited resource. I can go through two or three...
OmniOutliner giveaway
3/27/2021
William Gallagher, knight errant raconteur of rare wit, has a 1000 subscriber celebration on his Youtube channel. There will be a contest of some sort, and two lucky participants will get copies of Om...
The idea of a curated list of note and organizing tools is a pretty cool idea.
I'm stuck in a rut, myself. Devonthink works pretty well. I like the way I can create links to notes that can be synced ...
MindNode adds outlining to mind maps
1/28/2021
William Gallagher has nice videos. I agree, he's loquacious - and that's a great word for it - but it's OK. He's worth listening to.
MindNode adds outlining to mind maps
1/20/2021
I got grandfathered to version 7. Today I found an update, but it doesn't include the full-window outline view.
The subscription isn't much. Hmmm... I don't use MindNode that often, but it's helpful ...
Nice change in Devonthink
1/5/2021
I like the Unix-like foundation in MacOS.
OneNote will let you set the horizontal size of text boxes, so that may help, should you revisit OneNote,
My solution in DevonThink is to use rtf notes for ...
O the Irony...
1/5/2021
Proprietary file formats are not a good sales point, but there is a spectrum. Proprietary and cryptic is something to avoid.
However, if a file format is obvious, just not documented, that's not so b...
Ha! I was doing it the hard way. Not the first time, unfortunately.
SheetPlanner wrote:
Amontillado,
>Cool tip, thank you.
>One correction though, there is no technical limit on the number of
>link...
Here's something fun to do.
I've pretty much settled on Devonthink for fact and note organization. You can use DT's "copy item link" feature and paste to Sheetplanner using Edit->link to website to a...
SheetPlanner 2.0 Release & Feature List
12/29/2020
But what did you do in all your spare time?
Just kidding - looks like a lot of really hard work, and congratulations!
Interview with CEO of omnigroup
12/21/2020
Based on the first few episodes I’ve watched, William Gallagher interviews the CEO of OmniOutliner here - https://youtu.be/0LQQa4eTo3o
I have no ides why he has so few subscribers. If you like ...
MindNode adds outlining to mind maps
12/19/2020
MindNode has always had an outline view, but it was in a second pane, not full-window.
This is a very useful development. MindNode is glitch free in my use, and it exports clean OPML.
The Benefit of Nested Tags
12/17/2020
Ok, answered my own question.
My guess was correct. The DT manual says that adding a tag goes to the most recently defined instance of that tag name, if the name appears more than once in the tag inv...
The Benefit of Nested Tags
12/17/2020
I use tag hierarchies all the time in Devonthink, but I discover I have a question.
If I use the same tag name in two different parent tags, how does DT choose which one to use?
The answer isn't jum...
Nice change in Devonthink
12/14/2020
This actually happened months ago. I completely missed it.
Devonthink tags are really groups. The difference is tagging something automatically replicates it to the group for the tag. Untagging somet...
SheetPlanner 2.0 Launch
12/11/2020
Nice, Peter!