MadaboutDana
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Pagico 8
7/31/2019
It's pretty good. Particularly good for teams, I would say, because of the many different ways you can view projects, including the great GANTT view, plus the fact you can include extensive notes, fil...
Fast Software, the Best Software
7/31/2019
Sorry, somewhat ambiguous. Twine is neat, but the Twinery website is possibly even neater!
Fast Software, the Best Software
7/31/2019
Mark Bernstein's interesting take on speed also links to an interesting discussion of Twine, the open-source hypertext authoring tool.
http://chrisklimas.com/twine-past-present-future/
Twine 2.0 its...
It looks lovely.
But I no longer use web-only apps for a wide variety of solid reasons!
Are you thinking of producing a desktop/mobile version?
Write Mapper for Mac/Windows
7/30/2019
I like WriteMapper, it's very elegant. But I find it (much) too expensive for an app that doesn't have a competent search function (the quick search function only looks at topic names, which is pretty...
Messing with Devonthink
7/30/2019
I have to agree ;-)
For simple writing, I increasingly use Novellus, a macOS app that allows you to see all text "chunks" (the app calls them "scenes") in a chapter in a single stream, or concentrate...
New Apps of Interest
7/25/2019
App name: iData (consisting of iData Pro and iData Mobile)
Description: Flexible database app with free-form rich-text notes field; many different searching/filtering options
Platforms: macOS, iOS
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New Apps of Interest
7/25/2019
Ah! The Curse of the CRIMPer...
I feel a film coming on. Perhaps we could persuade Leonardo di Caprio to star...?
Well, the App Store and the Mac App Store have never sorted reliably by release date (or indeed, by any other filter criteria). It's a major weakness.
Notebooks 2.0 now available for macOS
7/11/2019
Okay, after a lengthy public beta, Notebooks 2.0 by Alfons Schmid is available on the Mac App Store or directly from his website (14-day trial version also available).
It's a great app, but they stil...
I quite agree - there's so much power already built in to macOS, it seems daft to reinvent it.
@Drewster
Ditto. I've tried hard to find uses for Agenda, but it's nowhere near as intuitively satisfying as NotePlan 2.0. Even though it's prettier.
Thanks, Luhmann – interesting.
Capstone: a tablet for thinking
6/25/2019
I loved their example from Milanote.
Yes, Linux is looking more attractive by the day!
I've been taking a closer look at ZorinOS, a relatively recent Linux distro that looks pretty darn cool. I shall install it on a VM and play.
But wh...
Hi Hugh, I've had a very quick sniff, but I haven't really kicked the tyres, so yes, you're probably right.
I have a lot of files (possibly in the tens of thousands), so it sounds as if I should!
Yes, I'm using FoxTrot Pro (and now EagleFiler) in the same way as Simon.
The "database" is the folder of files etc., which is indexed by FoxTrot/EagleFiler. EagleFiler also allows you to make notes...
That is actually very cool. Although you'd need wild horses to separate me from NotePlan nowadays.
Having said that, Agenda and NotePlan suffer from the same weakness: you can only have a single wind...
Having criticised EagleFiler, I've recently rediscovered its benefits.
I'm trying, as mentioned before, to compress down the number of apps I use to manage my vast store of general information, which...
Well, if I seem too pro-developer, I'm afraid it's just the way I am.
I LOVE independent developers. How could we CRIMP without them? Besides, you all know perfectly well that at some point in the no...
Notebooks for Mac 2 beta available
6/17/2019
Yep, I'm using the latest beta, which appears to be rock-solid.
Only irritating point? Alfons still hasn't managed to solve the PDF management thing (oh, PDFs show up fine, you can search for them - ...
First, a request:
Please do be careful about coming across as patronising or dismissive, washere. It's not fair to treat independent developers as a bunch of feckless rip-off merchants when you know...
iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa
6/14/2019
Good choice – the next version of Reminders promises to be pretty dang powerful.
But I can also recommend NotePlan!
Hi folks,
Oh dear, should be doing more serious things, but I came across an interesting new writing app quite by chance. Okay, first things first: macOS only, I'm afraid.
It's only been released ve...
Oh dear, and the criticism (of Dropbox) has been considerable. Apparently the new client takes up significant resources (I hadn't noticed on my MacBook Pro, as such, but now I'm going to monitor it). ...