Amontillado
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Darren, you do me great honor.
Devonthink support often says they don't believe DT is a note-taking app but I don't understand why it isn't.
For note-taking, I imagine I use it much the way Obsidian...
I believe this might be addressed by the Obsidian option to put attachments elsewhere other than in the current folder with the document.
Devonthink remains my go-to for organizing information. I thi...
I've looked again at Obsidian and I agree. It's very nice and I think certain key plugins, like Dataview, have gotten a lot stronger.
Dataview was nothing but frustration when I first looked at it. N...
Urtext
5/6/2025
Looks interesting. My first thought was I might be able to sneak this in on my work system where my only note-taking app is OneNote. I have become most steadfastly not a OneNote fan. It was so nice, w...
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/5/2025
Sigh. They always forget Curio. George works hard, if he's not the most responsive developer on the Internet he's tied for it, and Curio has such a long history.
Book "Thinking with Tinderbox"
4/24/2025
My Macs are ten years old this year, still going strong, no gripes, but they don't run anything newer than Monterey.
If my rent houses will give me any peace, I'll be in a position to replace them in...
I believe Tinderbox has a timeline view. Very strong community support, but also has a certain learning curve.
On the other hand, I don't think it takes any knowledge of Tinderbox's scripting languag...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Agreed. I need to retreat to my home turf, Linux, or I need to get new Macs.
Because Devonthink is critical to me, I think I'll overspend on a Macbook and use it like a desktop, too.
Oh, well, ten y...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Something was definitely amiss, which is a shame.
EagleFiler, if I understand correctly, is a database used to reference regular files on your filesystem. DT is the same thing, really.
If you go to ...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
I'll have to buy a new Mac to run DT4, unfortunately. My ten year old Macs can't run recent versions of MacOS.
The AI stuff is worrisome, although the see-also functionality is really nice in DT3. Th...
thoughts on outlining and transclusion
3/31/2025
I'm having tremendous fun with outlining via transclusion. By separating factoids from narrative, I seem to avoid a big trap.
If I outline in a traditional way, I tend to over-outline, completely kil...
Johnny.Decimal
2/22/2025
I think Johnny Decimal is pretty cool, but I also think it proves an axiom. Any system will work to at least some degree as long as you have a system. I'm not trying to be snarky and I respect the tho...
MyInfo Is My Choice
1/25/2025
Very timely discussion.
I'm writing a self help book on how to get out of debt. A thoroughly cheerless topic, but one I had to deal with. I'm now debt free with a credit rating as high as my golf han...
Amplenote
1/22/2025
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Yes, the 'toilet paper' paradigm :)
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Employed by Jack Kerouac for On The Road, a book I've never read, written on a roll of paper fed through his typewriter.
Kind of ...
BYOK app
1/8/2025
One of the reasons I liked my old Neo was it was more replaceable than my laptop. I could carry it on my open sailboat in a dry bag and write while beached somewhere. Not the environment I would want ...
BYOK app
1/7/2025
An update - it's a web app. More power to those who find solutions in the cloud. For me, local only is best, local first is a minimum requirement.
BYOK app
1/7/2025
The BYOK writing device folks have announced a companion app to the BYOK mobile writing device.
The video and related information can be found on the BYOK's web site, byok.io.
It might be easy to mi...
Zettelgarden
1/4/2025
Interesting. I've been thinking about a pure Python Zettelkasten. I can't install unapproved software on my work laptop, and company approved notetaking stops with Notepad++ and OneNote.
OneNote's fa...
Best Wishes for 2025 !
1/2/2025
Many thanks to the scholars and artists, writers all, who have shared so many wonderful ideas here. I've benefitted much.
Some of Mellel's own literature says it's not for everyone, and my addiction to it is not entirely product based.
When I first looked at Mellel, either version 3 or 4, I had the pleasure of a short e...
Scrivener is highly recommendable.
That said, I don't use it for the reasons you cite and there's one other thing, very silly of me.
There is a style in Scrivener called No Style. I really like styl...
I'll second this - nice topic.
(Insert standard fanboy gushing about Easy Data Transform here, all the stronger and an even more incredible resource in its new release. Tyrants quail before data disa...
I'll second this - nice topic.
(Insert standard fanboy gushing about Easy Data Transform here, all the stronger and an even more incredible resource in its new release. Tyrants quail before data disa...
MindNode Classic, and now MindNode Next
12/4/2024
Paul Korm wrote:
Putting documents in a "database" synced with CloudKit is retrograde
>motion, in my opinion.
This is one reason I won't return to TheBrain, which I used enthusiastically years ago...
MacOS Monterey, here, the latest version my 2015 Macs will run.
Apple Silicon, here I come - in a few months. I'm not buying anything until I finish paying off my wife's car. At that point, I'll be 1...