MadaboutDana
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A significant development with Craft
4/19/2021
I think a lot of people have been seduced by the sheer gorgeousness of Craft’s interface, only to realise that they’re not sure exactly what to do with it.
I’m still wondering mys...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/19/2021
Markology might appeal to you too, or possibly QwikCards (both of them cross-platform macOS/iOS). The very amiable developer of QwikCards is currently rewriting it from scratch in Swift, but the app i...
Outlining in Obsidian
4/16/2021
I confess I installed it and then wondered why I’d bothered, since Obsidian’s folding in particular is already quite impressive.
But the idea (especially the ability to outline anything, ...
A significant development with Craft
4/16/2021
The other thing Craft is amazingly good at is producing seriously well-structured PDFs. I haven’t experimented with this in the web version yet, but if you have a complex Craft document with mul...
Gingko Writer
4/13/2021
Heh, Gingko Writer is back! Adriano’s been hard at work behind the scenes and has rewritten it from scratch:
"Hi there!
Because your time is precious, here's a quick summary:
Gingko Writer is t...
Zavala is a nice, rapidly evolving outliner – I’ve been playing with it for a couple of months now.
And there’s an iOS version, too!
Cheers,
Bill
OmniOutliner giveaway
4/1/2021
I’m finding the rapidly evolving Zavala a pleasant alternative to other desktop outliners.
It doesn’t have OmniOutliner’s columns, but the developer is very committed!
I run it on...
Oh, the only other thing to mention is that HoudahSpot effectively uses Spotlight indexing behind the scenes (it amounts to a vastly more flexible version of Spotlight, really), whereas FoxTrot Pro cr...
Well done, Andy! Impressive flexibility – it must be entertaining, adapting to an entirely new platform!
Sorry, @eurobubba, I’ve only just seen this – many apologies!
I’ve used HoudahSpot too, but there’s no real comparison between it and FoxTrot Pro. The basic version of Fo...
Obsidian mobile app in alpha testing
3/23/2021
Hm, that is impressive – and exciting!
The last infoselect user in the world
3/23/2021
Alas, so did I (after scanning the first couple of paragraphs, too). I thought a bit of leaf-turning had been going on, but no, apparently not.
Shame.
LB wrote:
Don't know. I stopped reading after ...
SpringNotes
3/22/2021
Heh, John has a real thing about “hybrid” markdown displays – ironically, SpringNotes doesn’t have one, it shows all the code as entered, but other very popular apps like NoteP...
A really interesting issue, this. Look at the timeframes involved – so short! Just a couple of decades; maybe three.
We founded our business in 1990, and data resilience has always been an issu...
Dashword
3/8/2021
It’s quite a nice little app, I must say. The most significant lacuna is a search function.
Having said that, I’ve just launched it (on macOS), and it’s not working at all. Hm. How ...
Themes are fun – and actually, much more practical than one might think. For example, the lightly modified theme I’m using adds highlighting, strikethrough and underlining.
NotePlan ...
Nice to see that Zavala supports nested tags – but folding of same would be even nicer! So rather than:
test
test/nested
you’d see:
test>
and then, after clicking on “test”...
Good news, Maurice – I was going to report a fairly significant bug in version 13.0 (lost my data repository, couldn’t work out how to enter text since Zavala started insisting that you ha...
PDF File Mgmt. Question
3/3/2021
Totally agree on (a) 300 dpi and (b) ABBYY (the Mac version of which is also awesome and embedded in high-quality apps like DEVONthink Office)
PDF File Mgmt. Question
3/1/2021
Before switching to Mac, I used PaperPort in anger (while it still belonged to, I think, Xerox?) and found it pretty good.
Dynalist enters the "hobby work" phase
2/28/2021
Good news, Erica – I’m an enthusiastic DynaList supporter!
Moo.do
2/27/2021
It is remarkably powerful, although there’s a bit of a learning curve, and the limitation to Google is what (foolishly, in retrospect) put me off. But if you treat it as a pure outliner/info man...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/26/2021
I’d agree with @Listerene – don’t get a specced-up MBA. You don’t need to! Here’s the review I mentioned before (found it in my collection of odd articles; it was 57 apps...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/26/2021
Heh, yes – even the base model with 7 instead of 8 GPU cores is ridiculously quick. One reviewer (I’m trying to remember which one) simultaneously loaded all 53 of the apps he had installe...
Tree app - macOS
2/26/2021
Good grief! I’d forgotten just how powerful Tree 2 is.
For example, I’d totally forgotten that you can mix the tree branch (horizontal) view with hierarchical outlines as you prefer. By ...