MadaboutDana
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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:
>
>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 –...
Heh, I find myself thinking, along with Jos de Blok: “I don’t believe a word of it” (actually, he said that about Steve Jobs’ book, but still).
A quick scan suggests it’...
Notebooks 11 with iCloud Drive Sync
7/7/2021
I have to say that despite my enthusiasm for Notebooks (and I regularly liaise with the lovely Alfons to express it!), I too am not overwhelmed by the linking facility – it really doesnR...
Going with what you know
7/1/2021
Hey @Listerene,
Well, as @Sarah says, I’m not quite sure what you mean, but yes, for me a smartphone is primarily a communications platform and – as a secondary function – an i...
Going with what you know
6/30/2021
Well, here are some relevant passages from JottaCloud’s help files (https://docs.jottacloud.com/en/articles/1359359-security-at-jottacloud):
Infrastructure
All of our services run in our own d...
Going with what you know
6/30/2021
I agree with @satis: iCloud is extremely convenient, and I use it all the time.
But I can’t use it with an Android phone (or well, I can, if I use it in a web browser, but… clunky!).
So ...
Web Clipper
6/30/2021
Interesting: Joplin and UpNote also have Firefox extensions. I too have installed SingleFile!
Going with what you know
6/30/2021
Thanks, Sarah – no particular virtue on my part, just an ongoing curiosity about all the technology that’s not in my immediate sphere of reference; but sometimes (often unexpectedly, as in...
Web Clipper
6/29/2021
There are several nice options on macOS: Bear, Quiver, UpNote all have great clippers (Bear’s is especially good).
It’s also worth checking out the Evernote clipper (available for most br...
Going with what you know
6/29/2021
Well, I have an amusing admission. Living in France as I do, but with a business still in the UK, I had two iPhones for my two phone accounts.
Silly!
So I looked into upgrading to an iPhone XR (the...