MadaboutDana
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New app, Bike
12/19/2022
Hm, now I'm working with the latest version of Bike in "anger", I'm actually quite impressed. There are a lot of subtle, well-thought-out features in here! Also, some steady development, which is grea...
Discourse map!
12/16/2022
It does indeed. The trouble is, the concept of "spreadsheet" has been dominated by first Lotus, then Microsoft Excel for so long, the novel approach adopted by Apple totally failed to impinge on gener...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
Comments in Freeform are horribly constrained. They're a separate type of thing in Numbers – always attached to another object. That's because you can format Numbers text boxes in many diff...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
... in fact, I've just upgraded my system and have been playing with Freeform. To my very considerable amusement, the only thing Freeform does which Numbers doesn't do is support third-party files (wh...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
Nah, it really did (does!). People don't realise that the underlying Numbers concept is precisely that: a gigantic blank object-oriented canvas (with no apparent limits, according to my own experiment...
It is astonishing, you're absolutely right. I'm amazed to find myself taking to it like a duck to water; I'm normally very suspicious of apps like this, because they can so easily turn into rambling c...
I'd be happy to share what I've learned/done so far. It'll have to wait a bit so I can get the details right.
I too have started to use the kanban plugin as a kind of tag/subject tracker – ...
Discourse map!
12/14/2022
Although it's worth reminding people that Apple Numbers already did all this stuff, but had an accessible repository (in iCloud; you can't access Freeform files directly) and was also collaborative
>...
I've steadily converted all my task management duties over to Obsidian.
It takes a while to master core plugins like Tasks, or external plugins like Dataview, but boy is it worth it.
Finding a "perf...
Purelist
12/6/2022
A very nice discovery for Mac, iPhone and iPad (sorry, Windows/Linux users!): Purelist is one of the neatest note-takers and task managers I've discovered – the only flaw is no folding inside li...
Funnily enough, I was just wondering about precisely such a feature as I thought how wonderful it would be to combine Obsidian notes with something like my Apple Numbers whiteboard layout.
And behold...
New app, Bike
11/30/2022
The trouble is, Obsidian is almost ridiculously competent at most things once you start exploring the many, many (often astonishingly good) plug-ins.
Outliner is brilliant – thanks for the tip ...
New app, Bike
11/29/2022
It's certainly looking much more attractive now that it supports formatting!
Obsidian 1.0
11/24/2022
Hot damn! Sounds great – pass me a paper bag, someone... ;-)
Amontillado wrote:
Here's an interesting plugin - longform, which is for writing stuff in
>sections. Pardon me if this runs a l...
RightNote's problems
11/24/2022
While I was a Windows user, I very much enjoyed using RN – one of the top notes managers IMHO.
But competing against the likes of Obsidian etc. must be really, really hard.
Chris Murtland...
Obsidian 1.0
11/22/2022
Ah, no, it *is* the second version I'm using.
Really great for stuff in lists, not so good for paragraphs that aren't in a list. The behaviour is a little variable! However, a promising project.
Obsidian 1.0
11/22/2022
Ah, thanks – I think I've got the original, which does occasionally freeze and fail. I might look at the second version you mention!
steveylang wrote:
That looks super promising, thanks!
>...
Obsidian 1.0
11/19/2022
Obsidian is now amazing, and with certain plugins matches almost anything else in the field. But I've been finding the lack of block management frustrating. To explain: In e.g. Craft, Ulysses, Dynalis...
Ghostreader in Readwise Reader
11/14/2022
Well damn, that sounds really interesting. I shall look into it!
Thanks, Paul!
Obsidian 1.0
11/11/2022
Dang – thanks, Paul!
Paul Korm wrote:
There is a popular plugin, "Hover Editor", that turns the embedded text
>preview into an editor pane so that the transcluded text can be edited
>in th...
Obsidian 1.0
11/11/2022
Of course Obsidian does allow note embedding (like iA Writer), so you can quite easily embed notes in one big "master" note if you want to.
Indeed, you can embed individual blocks of text in a note,...
Robot writing apps
11/11/2022
Heh heh heh – loved it!
Amontillado wrote:
A great man once said, "A man ain't nothing but a man, but before I let
>a steam drill beat me down I'd die with a hammer in my hand."
>
>I may die wi...
Obsidian 1.0
11/10/2022
Oh, and it's also worth mentioning that there are loads of plugins enabling you to export Obsidian notes to virtually anything at all. Some of them are based on the Pandoc extension, for example. Othe...
Obsidian 1.0
11/10/2022
Oh, and it's also worth mentioning that there are loads of plugins enabling you to export Obsidian notes to virtually anything at all. Some of them are based on the Pandoc extension, for example. Othe...
Obsidian 1.0
11/10/2022
Can't argue with that – Ulysses is very much an optimised writer's tool in a way Obsidian simply isn't. But some of their suggested plugins are pretty cool (I've installed their "better" wo...