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Another one goes subscription 8/30/2023

Sustainable development is a good thing. I wish subscription software came with panic buttons. If the vendor goes out of business, it would be gracious to open existing customers to perpetual use. By...

Sanderson style outlining in Curio 8/24/2023

Categories in OutlineEdit are very useful. A nice step up would be allowing multiple categories per entry so the categories would be more like tags. It would also be nice to be able to add entries to...

Bike Outliner: Adds Row Types 8/24/2023

Awesome! Works here, too. Jack Baty wrote: There's a hidden preference in DTP that lets you add file extensions >that are to treated as plain text. > >defaults write com.devon-technologies.think3 >A...

Sanderson style outlining in Curio 8/21/2023

Here's discussion of emulating tags in OmniOutliner - https://discourse.omnigroup.com/t/adding-and-organizing-with-tags/48326 Although not a tags feature, I think you can do most of what you can do w...

Sanderson style outlining in Curio 8/20/2023

Outliners supporting tags, like Outline Edit and OmniOutliner, help with threaded outlines but they don't allow editing while a thread filter is active. I stopped using OmniOutliner a while back when ...

Sanderson style outlining in Curio 8/20/2023

I like Sanderson's comments in that link you posted about multi-drafters and single-drafters. Harvard outline generally take the life out of stories, or so they do for me. However, a basically flat o...

Sanderson style outlining in Curio 8/19/2023

Brandon Sanderson advocates outlining each plot thread separately, then moving the entries from each thread outline into a master outline. Or, at least that what the Yarn Ray YouTube channel suggests ...

Aeon Timeline releases version 3.2 8/16/2023

It looks like an incremental update on the outside. Internally it's said to have improvements to handle large timelines. When I get time, I think I'll dummy up a CSV file with a few thousand events an...

Bike Outliner: Adds Row Types 8/10/2023

Forgot to mention ease of use. Command-K, Escape, and control-command-arrows are the only hot keys needed to do most of what you need from the keyboard.

Bike Outliner: Adds Row Types 8/10/2023

Hi, Nirans, The auto-indent is nice, and in outline edit mode it's easy to move blocks of lines around. While some markdown editors will surely do such things, Bike does that very well. Bike has on...

Bike Outliner: Adds Row Types 8/9/2023

For a number of reasons it's nice to make maps of content in Devonthink. Bike is probably my new favorite tool for that because it's quick and low friction for editing lists. Devonthink links work fin...

A guide to Obsidian for people who like Outliners 7/29/2023

I see Obsidian has just come out with a new properties feature. I think it's just a convenience for editing YAML front matter, but I'm not sure. @MadAboutDana - have you seen this?

Anytype.io 7/26/2023

Lotus Organizer was my first personal info manager. After that was the PalmOS desktop app with a Palm Pilot. I could write Graffiti without looking at the screen almost as fast as I could write on pa...

SheetPlanner 4.0 Boards Video and Beta 7/25/2023

My impression of both apps just went up. Bravo.

Anytype.io 7/24/2023

Fun trivia - IBM used Lotus Notes internally until fairly recently and may still use it to this day. I'm not sure. I am no longer an IBM'er and will neither conform nor deny I ever was one. No, wait...

SummerFest2023 7/21/2023

SummerFest always features serious performers. Mellel and Devonthink are pivotal in my daily life as is HyperPlan. I use it for projects, sometimes, and it has proven extremely handy for monitoring cy...

OT - but maybe not entirely - warning about AI assisted deep fakes 7/17/2023

Stephen Zeoli wrote: Hi, all, > >This article warns about the dangers of AI created deepfake photos and >videos, and provides some advice about how to guard against them. I >imagine most if not all ...

Bear 2 - Reactions? 7/17/2023

I wish vendors would keep in mind old-school types like me. If an app doesn't work with local storage, maintains a separate file per project, and will let me arrange my own sync via methods I choose t...

Hope you are all well 7/13/2023

I was drawn to this forum by the thoughtful and intellectual tone of the conversation. My interest in writer's tools made this place naturally attractive but it wouldn't be the same without the sense ...

Mellel 6 - not an outliner, but getting some outline updates 7/7/2023

The next version of Mellel will support outline export, split screen, dark mode, new index features, and UI polishing. I set Mellel aside when I first got it because I didn't understand things like l...

Evernote system limits 7/5/2023

Is it just my tin ear, or does that reply from Evernote sound like AI?

SheetPlanner 4.0 Boards Video and Beta 7/4/2023

Nice!

A ramble about various note-taking applications 6/25/2023

Today I learned a new Devonthink trick. You can put commands in URLs. Search is my favorite. For instance, I downloaded all of our State statutes (I didn't break any that I know of). In six months th...

A ramble about various note-taking applications 6/21/2023

Quite agree, in the main. For instance, I like MindNode but would like it a lot more if it supported some PKM-like features. It's handsome enough I keep using it when I want to reach for a mind map. ...

A ramble about various note-taking applications 6/19/2023

I uninstalled TheBrain as well, but not without some appreciation and with some ideas how to get more out of Devonthink. Every document - group, smart group, tag, anything - has an annotation which i...

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