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Useful outliner search/query examples 9/21/2023

For an interesting implementation of regular expressions, check out the Mellel word processor. Regex's are built with a point and click interface. A newcomer to regular expressions doesn't even need t...

Aeon Timeline releases version 3.2 9/21/2023

That's a good idea, plugging in scheduled things. I haven't done that, but I can see where it might help.

Aeon Timeline releases version 3.2 9/20/2023

This isn't a conventional project, but it probably qualifies as an alternate use of Aeon. I'm one of many involved in an extended, months-long dialog with a tax appraisal office in disarray. Every n...

Useful outliner search/query examples 9/20/2023

One of the reasons I don't play well with Obsidian is Dataview. It's very popular and useful, but it suffers from fragility. I remember spending several sessions trying to get an example query to work...

Escape: new macOS/iOS outliner/mindmap app 9/19/2023

MindNode could be so much more. For instance, I'd like to see three dimensions. Let each node potentially have a sub-map and MindNode would be truly awesome. But I can't quite stop using it. The outl...

Another one goes subscription 9/3/2023

NoteTaker looks nice, but I see the comment that it serves in "capturing, organizing, and retrieving any kind of information in an intuitive electronic notebook." Since it says "an" electronic notebo...

Another one goes subscription 9/1/2023

I think I miscommunicated. I think subscription software should continue to work in the event there is no company to renew the subscription with. The opposite of a kill switch.

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...

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