MadaboutDana
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Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
5/29/2026
One of the nicest things about Kosshi – and yes, it's a tiny thing – is that when you zoom in or out (it responds to the standard Mac Cmd+ - / Cmd + + keyboard shortcuts), it actually changes the font...
Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
5/29/2026
Oh, I'm so tempted, even though it doesn't (and probably won't ever) run on Android. It's really very nice, and I love the integration with Calendar/Reminders. But no, I'm not getting an iPhone just s...
Roam Research -- Recent Experience?
5/29/2026
Personally, I do not use any app directly connected with AI (or if I do, I deactivate the AI functionality), because doing so would make me far too dependent on the latter (and its vagaries).
I do...
Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
5/27/2026
Erm, where is your website? Sorry, sorry, appears at the top of this thread... d'oh!
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Nice review on your website, macosguru.
Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
5/27/2026
I'm rather impressed – especially by the developer's careful explanation of his decisions (reminiscent of Jesse!).
I'm having a play, despite no longer using iOS...
FINAL|FINAL - an
5/18/2026
That makes sense – and actually accounts for most of the footprint.
Luhmann wrote:
>Thanks! The large footprint is largely due to TinyTeX (232 MB). This is actually the smallest possible way I can...
FINAL|FINAL - an
5/17/2026
Well, I've spent an hour or so checking out Final|FINAL, and I must say that's a very impressive achievement! You've created something that's as functional as much more mature products in a remarkably...
FINAL|FINAL - an
5/17/2026
Most entertaining – after recent discussions of other "final" apps, you may finally have nailed it!
Forum redesign
5/17/2026
Now now! No less a person than Professor Dawkins has suggested that AI may indeed be conscious (after lengthy interaction with his agent "Claudia"...). So it *must* be true...
;-D
Amontillado wr...
SilverBullet
5/12/2026
Trouble is, when one's exchanging news and views in writing, it's not always easy to read (what passes for) humour into people's remarks, and in my experience quite a lot of the criticism on our forum...
Brainio reborn...
5/11/2026
I have to say, this is why I actually use a completely separate tool (the super-search engine FoxTrot Professional) to scour through my now vast archive of reference materials (including every kind of...
SilverBullet
5/11/2026
An attractive concept, but a very personal one. Frankly, all the messing about with frontmatter attributes, tagging etc. to produce databases, meta-glossaries etc. is a bit OTT (in fact, my appalled d...
Brainio reborn...
5/11/2026
Heh, love that – maybe it's the Ultimate Justification for being a CRIMPer – to become a butterfly emerging from a constraining chrysalis, leaving the "digital clutter" behind...
Goodness knows I'...
Brainio reborn...
5/8/2026
You are not wrong, but yes, bulk importing from e.g. proprietary formats is (very) hard. Which is why so many of the best notetaking apps use folders + markdown files as their basic content – because ...
Forum redesign
5/8/2026
Or maybe they could be sorted (if so desired) by Newest First? But hey, it's brilliant anyway!
Paul Korm wrote:
>Chris, could threads slew down to the last entry read? Like in Discourse. (Just...
That's a point – I'd forgotten that Notebooks can concatenate. Thanks for reminding me!
(Yet another) interesting new app!
5/8/2026
It's quite a while since I wrote about Notenik, and during that time, it's progressed from strength to strength. But I don't use it very often, except out of curiosity.
However! My attention was re...
The only app I can think of that more or less directly mirrors OneNote on Linux is BasketNotes (https://basket-notepads.github.io), but I don't think it imports OneNote files.
The best OneNote equ...
Alfons Schmid's Notebooks
5/8/2026
Agreed: Alfons is lovely, but how he makes a living out of Notebooks I don't know, because he rarely charges for upgrades. I did use it quite a lot, but since going multi-platform have used it less an...
Brainio reborn...
5/8/2026
Good point!
Mike Sautkulis wrote:
>Great looking app.
>One comment... As a mobile user I'd like to mention the lack of Indent/Outdent buttons.
All-In-One solution?
5/8/2026
OneNote is a good example of Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" principle (now defined in Wikipedia, no less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)
But I remain astonished at the many per...
Absolutely. I remain on the lookout for promising writing apps that can do this, or do what Scrivener and Ulysses do (concatenate multiple notes/documents in a single view). Sadly, the only really sim...
That's interesting – I'd forgotten all about iA Writer's transclusion feature. Obsidian can do the same thing, of course...
>iA Writer supports transclusion with its "content blocks" feature, so l...
Brainio reborn...
5/5/2026
Interesting to see how many notetakers are going down this route. Octarine is evolving in a similar direction, and of course it's built into Obsidian. Although Brainio's mindmapping is somewhat closer...
Brainio reborn...
5/5/2026
Dang, the people behind Brainio have just released a brand-new, all-rewritten version – currently free of charge! It does look extremely attractive (nice mixture of text, mindmapping and hybrid). More...