Amontillado
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Planning & executing
8/9/2021
As Eisenhower, or Captain Picard, or somebody we've all heard of before once said, no plan survives contact with the enemy. :-)
Easy Data Transform
7/27/2021
Ditto everything you said, Prion.
I got EDT from the Summerfest sale, and I figure I got my money's worth on my first use.
A bunch of financial information was available from one outfit, but poorly ...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/26/2021
TheBrain's jump thoughts remain intriguing.
I'm not sure if I correctly understand the difference between network relationships and hierarchical.
I think I use tags to form what you're referring to ...
I have a friend who wants to search and relate PDF files on a Windows machine.
Devonthink's "see also" function is pretty cool, but he needs that kind of functionality in Windows.
Windows-based sugg...
Individual tools addressing individual problems suit me. I could almost be happy with vim and Affinity Publisher for word processing.
On the other hand, yesterday I ran across a need for merge fields...
Anyone using Roadmap by Swiftapp?
7/2/2021
Looking for swimlane planning apps, I found Roadmap for MacOS and iOS on the Apple App Store, also at https://roadmapgo.com/getapps.
I'm not as opposed to subscriptions as I once was. An app that doe...
Web Clipper
7/1/2021
There are recent posts in Devonthink's forums about some pending fixes their web clipping features. Right now, tags added to web clippings don't get saved. The next minor release has the fix.
Anyway,...
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 ...
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...