Amontillado

Going with what you know 6/30/2021

Jottacloud sounds interesting. How is the encryption? One thing I liked about Spideroak was the encryption was at the endpoint. Spideroak's servers didn't do any encryption or decryption. That was al...

Artisanal software sale 6/26/2021

Apologies if this is a duplicate post. My browser burped. I don't see my post. I resurrected the below from browser history. Andy, I bought Easy Data Plan. Currently, I have only one use for it. I c...

Artisanal software sale 6/25/2021

I just saw the video for Easy Data Transform - impressive! Our local property tax district is out of control. I asked for a copy of the tax roll and got a text file containing a single line of 336 mi...

Artisanal software sale 6/25/2021

HyperPlan has been very useful as a companion to task lists. In my world, managers and customers always craft guaranteed failure modes before making requests. It's like they want to win the lottery, ...

Mapping System with Attributes 6/16/2021

I got interested in Flying Logic and theory of constraints, which sounds like might be applicable to what you're talking about. Back then I didn't have cash woes and bought a copy of Flying Logic. It...

Mac software recommendations 6/7/2021

A week or two ago I spent about 10 minutes experimenting with OO styles. It's worth learning how they work. Styles seemed buggy at first, but that was due to assumptions I made that were wrong. Simo...

PDFDiff for Mac 6/7/2021

I am not well informed about PDF internals, but I know enough to see comparing them has got to be challenging. Neat application!

Mac software recommendations 6/6/2021

I use Devonthink heavily. From a brief look at Curio 16 I see it's got some good refinements. In the past I've had scrolling issues on some "figures," what Curio calls objects like text boxes. Those ...

Author - an interesting app for composing scholarly work 6/3/2021

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...

All the world's a tag and we are merely taggers. 5/18/2021

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 honest&#82...

All the world's a tag and we are merely taggers. 5/16/2021

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...

ThinkingTools, softwares which helps in ThinkingProcess 2/17/2021

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...

SheetPlanner 2.0 Release & Feature List 1/2/2021

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...

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