MadaboutDana
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Planning & executing
8/12/2021
I like Franz’s ultra-simple, time-delimited approach – after 30 minutes, what have I achieved, and how will this affect my research priorities going forward?
What new priorities should I...
UpNote continues to improve
8/12/2021
It’s got a very nice web page clipper, too – one of the more reliable ones!
Cheers,
Bill
Planning & executing
8/11/2021
I like this methodology, @Franz – nice, tight approach.
Franz Grieser wrote:
Hi Dellu. I can relate.
>Don't know how much of my lifetime I spent losing myself in reseach I
>could not use.
>
>Th...
NoteFrog is now free
8/10/2021
It’s always worked well for me, but I won’t pretend I’m a heavy user. It’s a great place for jotting stuff quickly down.
Planning & executing
8/10/2021
Also worth looking at TickTick, which supports attachments and kanban views (you can alternate between a List and a Kanban view).
It also supports extensive note-taking as well as task management, a...
OneNote update
8/9/2021
Loud sniggering noises… sorry!
jaslar wrote:
According to this article:
>https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-onenote-app-windows-102737016.html
>
>"Over the next 12 months, Microsoft is rolling ...
NoteFrog is now free
8/9/2021
Rather nice.
For a simple cross-platform alternative, there is always SimpleNote (by Automattic), which is clean, well-designed, includes tagging and has an excellent search function.
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...