Amontillado
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You are right about price. I was thinking about features when I called OO a poor man's Scrivener. You can write in subdocuments and re-order them. Mellel will do the same thing with full-featured word...
I was enthusiastic about OmniOutliner, then uninstalled it in a fit of pique.
OmniFocus graduated beyond the OS I could run on my 2015 iMac and OmniGroup seemed to be sidelining what I think is their...
AI-infused
10/3/2025
AI would be a great way to learn about physics, but I'd like to qualify that and I would prefer human instructors, either in person or by proxy of book.
From any source, just don't take anything at f...
AI-infused
10/2/2025
Whether or not I'm a Luddite is a question I respectfully defer to others. I prefer to write with a fountain pen over a ballpoint, so feel free to have harsh opinions.
I would rather create with the ...
AI-infused
10/1/2025
I've expressed doubts about AI hype. My doubts remain, so perhaps I'm a Luddite. Or, maybe sometimes traditional skills offer benefits beyond the immediate gains of newer methods.
Slide rules aren't ...
AI-infused
9/30/2025
My concern is the validity of training material. I can be very careful, but the next guy won't be. Experience, or maybe paranoia, suggests I'll be outrun, hobbled by my conservative nature and margina...
AI-infused
9/27/2025
I suspect you, too, have had a deck returned to you scrambled after a reader jam!
gunars wrote:
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>>Frankly, it's enough to make me want to stop bathing, get a ratty robe,
>>an...
AI-infused
9/25/2025
LinkedIn is widely reported to start forwarding their user data to Microsoft for AI training.
Opt out now, before it's too late.
The actual LinkedIn announcement said the training would start in Eur...
Tinderbox goes AI
8/17/2025
AI is pretty amazing, particularly if your definition of "amazing" includes a tinge of terror.
Or at least humor.
Yesterday, I wrote a letter that weighed 0.995 ounces by my scales. It could easily ...
Hyper Plan
7/25/2025
Many thanks to Andy Brice for today's update to Hyper Plan. I use it daily.
For instance, a threat scanner produces a spreadsheet of machines, vulnerabilities, and a bunch of trivia I don't really ne...
I have the same war concerns about Mellel.
Your mileage may (and probably should) vary.
I don't want to let tyranny change my life. Bold words, particularly if the missiles started landing in my bac...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/3/2025
Happy to share, but it's not rocket science.
The properties I use are Title, Status, Due, Cycle, Priority, and Budget. Setting the bin size to month for Due helps, and the colors for Due walk from da...
Pretty much completely agree about Obsidian. One thing I wish for in Obsidian is global community plugins. It would be nice not to have duplicate copies of plugins in each vault.
I have projects that...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/2/2025
I use HyperPlan daily as a control panel and running budget for bills as they come due, and it's really cool for creating an instant multi-mode checklist for things like server maintenance. Nothing fa...
Zettelkasten in Obsidian experience
6/28/2025
Nice article!
I'm not a disciplined Zettelkasten purist. The Zettel methods inspire me, nonetheless.
For instance, at work I got tasked with writing a vim tutorial. That was easy enough. It's a text...
Future proofing is something I thought a lot about yesterday. I discovered a couple of new-to-me functions in vim. I stared into the rabbit hole and the rabbit hole stared back. I spent all evening ex...
Let's hope Tinderbox lasts a long, long time.
One of the things your app has going for it is a remarkable user community, intellectual, polite, and very helpful. I've never made it to one of your me...
Well, there's an obvious answer. Create a Markdown file for each PDF and embed the PDF in the Markdown.
Or, as I like to say, three lines of Python for a boatload of PDFs.
The new Obsidian Bases feature might hold some promise. Right now, you can have as many views of your data as you want, provided all you want are table views.
Imagine adding Canvas views to Bases. Do...
Hard to argue - well said.
I use Curio and would like to use it more. I believe the latest version, which I can't run on my antique Macs, has wider support for external files, putting it closer to ap...
MacOS 26? I guess my version 12 is pretty far in Apple's rear view mirror.
It's the newest version I can run. I'm starting to think about moving my life out of certain key Mac apps into things I can ...
novelWriter
6/10/2025
That looks pretty cool. There are definitely many paths to enlightenment.
The last few days I've been wondering if there are better tools for how I like to work. CRIMPing. I might be headed toward a ...
Andy Brice wrote:
Ps/ Nothing lasts forever. Even the sun is going to burn out,
>eventually.
This was a scary thought. Then I checked.
Finding a running computer might be tough after Sol wheezes o...
I think I'd add Devonthink to the list of future proof, or at least future tolerant, apps. At first glance, it looks like everything disappears into a proprietary database. In reality, the database fi...
Pocket is closing down
5/25/2025
Devonthink has browser extensions for Safari and Chrome. I use Safari, which probably means I guzzle too much Apple koolaid.
It will capture a web page as a bookmark, which is a link stored in Devont...