MadaboutDana
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DoogiePIM v3 for Windows is out
8/5/2021
Hey Sarah,
Yes, EssentialPIM seems to have improved steadily since I last used it in anger, some 5-6 years ago. I’ve always liked its simplicity. And the Android/iOS client is very convenient (...
DoogiePIM v3 for Windows is out
8/4/2021
I remember EssentialPIM was pretty good, too – I haven’t looked at that for years.
As I remember, one could network-enable it, too – it ran on Firebase or some such backend.
DoogiePIM v3 for Windows is out
8/4/2021
Interesting, @Sarah, many thanks for posting. I have fond memories of DoOrganizer, but hadn’t realised it had metamorphosed into DoogiePIM.
Looks amazingly comprehensive for such a reasonably p...
InfoQube Outliner Announcement
7/30/2021
Thanks, Pierre!
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/29/2021
Ah, I did love your reference to memory palaces! Good ole’ Conan Doyle…
Just been rereading (in what little leisure time I currently have) Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash”...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/26/2021
An interesting example of outliner + comparison (apart from InfoQube – yes, okay, @pierre, you’ve convinced me: I’m finally going to try running this in Parallels!) is offered by Spe...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/26/2021
To the hierarchy/network duo, I’d add comparison. Personally, I find the ability to view multiple pieces of information side by side invaluable; it’s why I can’t bear Agenda, which, ...
Well, the ultimate tool on Windows is dtSearch (even now), but it’s relatively expensive, so maybe he could look at e.g. X1 or Copernic (I used Copernic when I was still on Windows). Having said...
Hm, that’s interesting. I know I’ve had suspicions about PDF Search’s accuracy on macOS before (I haven’t used the iOS version – actually, I didn’t realised there w...
Interesting MyInfo update (7.2)
7/22/2021
I’ve just received an update from the MyInfo developer (I don’t use it any more, being on Mac, but I know others here do). Here it is verbatim:
MyInfo 7.1
This release adds powerful new f...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/21/2021
Interesting; you’re describing something like Excel’s PivotTable function, but for hierarchical setups. Challenging!
Many of us are still mourning the untimely death of the hierarchical o...
@dellu – yes, I remember finding the same thing. FoxTrot extracts all text to generate its indices (and that’s the basis of the FoxTrot mobile app for iOS; it uses the text-based indi...
Hm, quite by chance, while scanning swiftly through the DocumentNode website, I saw it also does static website publishing, complete with built-in search function!
Wow.
The templates look fairly con...
BitsDuJour sale
7/20/2021
I’m not a Windows user any longer, but I noticed that the always impressive RightNote is currently on sale at BitsDuJour (https://www.bitsdujour.com/software/rightnote/)
Bauer Software has deve...
@Stephen, I’m glad it’s not just me! Your experience precisely mirrors my own – lack of logic behind the linking (ha, alliteration!)
@Weimer: intriguing! I haven’t tried linki...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/20/2021
I agree with @Alexander – hierarchies are more intuitively useful, for some reason.
Having said which, I love the idea of combining hierarchies with a mindmap-like approach: some of the be...
Yes, I haven’t really used my copy of PDF Search very much, because I use FoxTrot almost exclusively, but it’s a very powerful search engine.
Reminds me I must dig it out and give it anot...
I’ve tried it, quite liked it, but was Totally Baffled by the way it does mind maps.
I suspect that’s just me and others take to it like ducks to water, but I tried twice over and eventua...
Disclaimer: IANAA as such, but I am a professional researcher and regularly edit academic papers on behalf of – usually German – doctoral students through to senior professors.
IR...
Is Toodledo dead?
7/13/2021
Ah! That’s good to hear!
satis wrote:
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>Simon wrote:
>Thank you for that! I did hear some concerns a while ago about where
>>ticktick stored its data and that this was not secure or based in ...
Is Toodledo dead?
7/12/2021
Yes, it’s Chinese, so who knows? Having said which, we’ve been using it for years and it’s proved very reliable. I have no idea whether a team of Red Army specialists are hoovering d...
Slice is focus-first writing software
7/12/2021
@Paul, I’m coming to the same conclusion. Especially after a recent e-mail from Evernote suggesting that they’re going to be refining their subscription model.
We’ll see!
Is Toodledo dead?
7/12/2021
TickTick does all those things, to a very high standard. There are three tabs in the sidebar: Lists (= folders/subfolders + task lists); Tags (yep, tags); Custom (smart lists)
It also has a Calendar ...
As an aside to my previous remark: I am reluctantly concluding that despite its recent tribulations, Evernote is actually a very powerful tool…
I’d certainly take a look if they decided to create an (offline) app, but personally, I’ve foresworn all purely online environments.
I’m quite enjoying my current comparison –...