MadaboutDana
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iA Writer now has wikilinks
6/15/2022
Thanks, @satis – this reminded me of a couple of features I'd totally forgotten, like the variables and metadata functions.
Worth mentioning that iA Writer now keeps track of hashtags, too...
iA Writer now has wikilinks
6/15/2022
Typora is gorgeous, and can be used with iOS markdown editors (e.g. the excellent 1Writer, which is unavailable on macOS) simply by designating the relevant iCloud folder as its "Home" library.
Opal -- new outliner for Mac OS X
6/14/2022
Agree about Zavala – a very elegant alternative to the Workflowy/Dynalist duo.
And I'd love to invest in OutlineEdit. I'll have to update my CRIMPing budget, however...
Cheers!
Bill
iA Writer now has wikilinks
6/14/2022
This is nice: iA Writer has been given wikilinks, which work extremely well.
Along with the "content block" transclusion feature (best used in side-by-side markdown + preview mode, or in two separat...
Curio and Devonthink
6/14/2022
While I'm thinking about it, I'd just remind Mac users reluctant to pay Curio's rather robust subscription charges that there is a very capable free alternative in the form of GrowlyNotes (from growly...
Oh, that's disappointing about the reMarkable. I love the concept, but have hesitated due to the (impressively high) price.
I totally agree with you about the mysterious disappearance of devices like...
I loved my AlphaSmart Dana, and took it everywhere with me. I had a ton of Palm software on it, too, so it was seriously useful for all kinds of stuff, although I used it primarily for rapid writing. ...
Curio and Devonthink
6/9/2022
That sounds fun!
Curio and Devonthink
6/8/2022
Actually, that is seriously cool.
He's come up with some ingenious ways of using Curio on multiple platforms without having to develop his own Curio Lite version for e.g. iOS (something he argues wo...
Curio and Devonthink
6/2/2022
Dang you, Amontillado, you've just gone and tickled my CRIMPing addiction – just when I thought I was getting on top of it!
Okay, okay, I lie! There's no getting on top of it. Must. Resis...
Legend
5/26/2022
I keep taking another look at Legend, and it is remarkably powerful. I need to sit down with it for an extended session.
Saga is a notes app similar to Notion
5/26/2022
Looks like a really nice app – there doesn't appear to be an offline desktop/mobile version, however.
You're welcome, Darren – I'm also delighted to see Novellus back again!
And the Novellus developer has taken the opportunity of tidying up/modernising the UI, too – it looks a good deal better than it did.
Great stuff!
Aha! Novellus is back! And it's been updated for Apple Silicon – a good sign that it's not died off or been abandoned!
A nice, low-price Scrivener/Ulysses alternative is available in the M...
New app, Bike
5/20/2022
Ah, see, that confirms the OS-specific thing. I've just taken a couple of moments to test Bear, iaWriter and Nota.
On my M1 machine, they're all more or less as fast as each other, even when I resiz...
New app, Bike
5/20/2022
Interesting, Jesse, thanks for the feedback. I'd be happy to run these tests again – it's perfectly true that actually editing the middle of a very large document separates the sheep from t...
New app, Bike
5/19/2022
Very interesting. Maybe that reflects on Ulysses's decision to use a database as the back end? I must say I do prefer apps that handle their files "externally", as it were. It's so much easier to prev...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
I was checking through Hog Bay's posts, of which there are (currently) only two, and found the "Moby Dick" files Jesse uses to test the speed of, yes, you guessed it, Bike (and other apps).
And just ...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
... although Bike does have a search function after all, and it works quite well.
Yeah-but, no-but...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
Well quite.
Oh, yes, I'd forgotten OutlineEdit – another excellent and powerful app.
Not to mention entertaining outriders like NoteTaker!
Who needs yet another mildly entertaining but...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
Heh, bravo MacSE.
As it stands, Bike is quite nice. But that's it. It's a text outliner.
FoldingText was amazing – still is amazing, actually. But no longer developed or even mentioned by Hog ...
Privacy Question
5/17/2022
I confess I know nothing about web beacons. As a Mac user, I tend to rely on Safari's increasingly heavyweight suppression of naughty trackers to protect me (as well as MalwareBytes and AVG!). A coupl...
KeepIt vs Notebooks vs FSnotes
5/16/2022
I have to say, Keep It V2 has really grown on me, especially with Finder integration. I've resubscribed (no, no, don't even *mention* Ulysses!)
Dellu wrote:
Thank you Bill. That is right.
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>Another...
KeepIt vs Notebooks vs FSnotes
5/16/2022
Worth bearing in mind that Keep It also has tags. There's a tag filter you can apply to any folder, including the "All Items" folder – the filter appears at the bottom of the list of docume...