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best outliner you use? (2018)
12/10/2018
washere wrote:
I always felt it was a shame he could not keep it up, whiz has good
>tag/keyword functions he could develop much more. Hope he can pick it up
>again, nice guy.
Herein is an argument ...
Organizing correspondence
12/9/2018
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Right now, when I start a mass-mail argument, I begin with a Numbers spreadsheet. One row per contact, with columns for address, greeting, and any other fields I want ...
best outliner you use? (2018)
12/9/2018
Donovan wrote:
I saw a couple of mentions of WhizFolders and took a look at it for the
>first time in many years. It's made a lot of progress, but it all seemed
>to happen a while back. Is WhizNotes...
Organizing correspondence
12/8/2018
Whoops, I buried the lede!
I use MacOS and IOS, and appreciate portability to Linux. I'm not likely to use Microsoft products in the future, not out of hatred or bitterness, just preference. To me, a...
Organizing correspondence
12/8/2018
I need to do a better job of managing correspondence.
A letter will go out to a mail-merge list, kicking over anthills and calling out politicians for greed, avarice, stupidity, and usually a Venn-is...
Consistency between IOS and MacOS is my biggest complaint. I carry my iPad and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard everywhere. The Otterbox shell I've got for the iPad includes a kickstand arrangement in the ...
Aquaminds Notetaker
12/7/2018
Devonthink does a lot of things for me. I tend to put writing projects in separate DT databases, for example.
That way I have a nice package for syncing. I use iCloud because I'm stubborn, and I like...
Any way to PM users here?
12/6/2018
Dr Andus wrote:
>I think that can also be taken as a compliment. I like primitive...
>
>Definition of primitive (Entry 1 of 2)
>1a : not derived : ORIGINAL, PRIMARY
>b : assumed as a basis
>especia...
I would refine Mr. Lougleed's method slightly. While you can write (or paste) lengthy notes as OmniOutliner topics, that's probably better done as notes for the topics.
He pastes an excerpt as a chil...
I started to reply several times to the zettelkasten thread. I'm intrigued by any method of organization and I'm still seeking the true zen of tagging. There are subtleties. The epistemology and taxon...
Revisiting subscriptions
11/27/2018
Good advice, Bill.
Scrivener is very nice, and the people behind it are truly a writer's friend. It seems like there could be more elegance and less complexity in the product's design, though.
For i...
Revisiting subscriptions
11/27/2018
Almost forgot. I've also been thinking twice about Ulysses. It's one of the few utilities I don't mind subscribing to.
Actually, I do mind, but I can stomach the idea. It's an actively supported pack...
Revisiting subscriptions
11/27/2018
Franz Grieser wrote:
washere wrote:
>>I just say: NO.
>
>Wow, washere. That must have been your shortest post here.
>Nevertheless as difficult to understand as usual. What are you referring
>to? (Re...
Outliner for nonfiction book
11/11/2018
Alexander - Mindomo looks nice, but that does come at a price - $180 a year for the full blown version is a little high. If I lived in my mind map and used it as a direct revenue generator, giving pre...
TheBrain 10 released
11/11/2018
22111,
I can agree with your conclusions, at least as they apply to the long-obsolete version of The Brain I last used, but I'm trying to remember how The Brain really fit together.
I lost data. The...
Native OPML might be a little diffferent than import and export.
I think if OmniOutiliner opens (not imports) an OPML file, it will save to the same file name and format.
MindNode (still working wit...
Outliner for nonfiction book
11/6/2018
I'm all in with complex tools for text manipulation. Emacs is a favorite of mine and power tools are always the answer - except for creative writing. A part of me always wants high capability. Another...
Lotus Agenda
10/31/2018
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>think that is the time MSDOS needs to boot :-)
>Are you saying i bought something wrong?
>
>I think i'm bringing CRIMPing to a new level now. But hey, at least this
>things had...
Current state of iOS/macOS outliners
10/29/2018
MadaboutDana wrote:
I agree: if Ulysses, iaWriter, Bear or any number of other competent
>markdown apps
I've heard that outlining is on Ulysses' radar. That would help justify the subscription cos...
Outliner for nonfiction book
10/27/2018
By “another browseable location”, I meant on my iPad where apps, the ipad’s file system, and syncing don’t always prove a good mutual fit. DEVONthink makes syncing simpler, and...
Outliner for nonfiction book
10/27/2018
OmniOutliner for iOS picked up some glitches in an update a few weeks ago, but they were promptly fixed. It can work in either one or two pane mode.
I’d prefer a plain text outliner, but OO wo...
Nisus Writer
10/25/2018
Split view! Must upgrade now!
Risking a pun, Nisus is very nice.
Lucas wrote:
Version 3 was just released, with significant enhancements:
>
>https://www.nisus.com/pro/releasenotes/releasenotes300.ph...
Beorg for iOS
10/8/2018
Well, that calls my bluff about wishing for org-mode on the iPad. I must check into this!
Ha! The lack of a keyboard didn’t even occur to me. Since my primary use for my iPad is mobile writing, I rarely use it without a Bluetooth keyboard.
For the moment, I remain disappointed in av...
Outlining tools aren't what they should be, at least on Mac/IOS.
OmniOutliner has done well for me. I like the checkboxes and filters, and hoisting is a good thing.
Since IOS 12 came out, though, O...