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There are two well-established Windows search engines that do what you want: Copernic and A1 (both work like FoxTrot on Mac)
They’re pure search engines, so not PIMs as such. But then as Paul K...
Agenda versus NotePlan
1/9/2020
I like your review of the two apps, Drewster, but agree above all with your conclusions about Agenda: it’s slow. Nice, good-looking, but confused and slow.
Whereas NotePlan (speaking from my ow...
2019 reflection question
1/7/2020
Yes, I know exactly what you mean. But NotePlan has evolved in ways that mean your problem can be solved relatively easily. Depending, of course, on precisely how you use NotePlan.
The solution I wou...
Best wishes for 2020 and beyond
1/6/2020
A wonderful, interesting, productive and peaceful New Year to all.
And may I add my thanks to Chris for his steadfast support and thoughtful interventions.
Best wishes to all,
Bill
Ah, I’ll admit that in my ongoing quest for greater efficiency, I’ve now dumped EagleFiler (because it insists in creating its own repositories) and now use FoxTrot Pro exclusively (becaus...
2019 reflection question
1/6/2020
I still CRIMP (very merrily), but my personal info management is now concentrated almost exclusively on NotePlan and Numbers (the latter for sketching out projects, workflows etc.) running, of course,...
Hierarchical tags
1/6/2020
NotePlan uses nested (= hierarchical) tags in the same way as Bear.
More on the NotePlan website: https://noteplan.co
myBase is on sale today at Bits duJour
12/13/2019
Hm, the latest macOS version is really quite impressive.
Much as I like MacJournal, I find myBase rather easier to use despite an (almost) equally comprehensive range of features.
MacJ is, of cours...
TickTick steadily improves
12/5/2019
Well, TickTick have finally incorporated something I’ve been whingeing at them to do for years: Markdown and formatted text.
And they’ve done it very nicely, too. It includes checklists, ...
It’s worth mentioning, incidentally, that the exceptionally brilliant NotePlan supports wiki-style links and gives you a smart dropdown list of links as soon as you type your double-brackets. Th...
Yes, when you think of the many brilliant ideas that have appeared in subsequently vanished software over the years, it makes you weep, it really does.
Talking of which: one of the limitations I enco...
It’s a lovely extension of the Workflowy/Dynalist philosophy, I must say. I’m especially impressed by the way it draws phrases that are identical to page names to your attention (as “...
I love Curio, but have found that for project planning on a broad canvas, as it were, Numbers is actually just as useful.
But Curio manages large quantities of data much more efficiently; I just don&...
I’d totally agree with those who’ve suggested:
Curio for purposes of analysis
FileMaker Pro for eventual DBMS setup and integration (it has support for MySQL)
Best of luck - sounds like...
In terms of UX, it’s not bad. I like the potential of the page graphs.
I agree, ruudhein, the “you can have it as it was when you stopped paying your subscription” model is actually quite effective. Agenda (on macOS/iOS) uses a similar model.
But Adobe? Ahah...
Hi @Hugh and @Alex,
Wow, I wasn’t expecting a relatively innocuous remark about the dangers of subscription services to arouse such political furore.
But my point, while not intended to be pol...
You just have to feel sorry for all those Adobe users in Venezuela:
https://tidbits.com/2019/10/09/adobe-cuts-service-to-users-in-venezuela/
That’s why so many of us here are trying to move aw...
Hi Darren,
Sounds like an interesting query! But it would be useful to know more about your working environment. It sounds as if you prefer to work on iPad (any particular type? Always interesting to...
a few thoughts about infoqube
10/22/2019
Dear Pierre,
I’m so sorry. What I wrote was supposed to be mildly ironic, light-hearted fun, acknowledging the very difficult experience of being an independent developer. I didn’t mean t...
a few thoughts about infoqube
10/21/2019
… and that’s why I keep asking Pierre to produce a Mac version (oh, and an iOS version, too, Pierre, please).
What? You’re a solo developer? Pshaw, what kind of excuse is that!!! ;...
Manuscripts now free!
10/17/2019
Just had an interesting update from Manuscripts. Version 2.0 has now been released as a collaborative web platform, with desktop versions on their way.
They’re really gunning for conventional w...
And Pagico 9 is now out...
10/17/2019
More details here: https://www.pagico.com/whats-new/
Cheers,
Bill
Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time
10/16/2019
The standard approach to @ vs. # is very much as described by Paul; @ indicates people, places, while # indicates actions.
I’ve chosen a slightly different approach for tags: I use @ for action...
Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time
10/15/2019
Lovely update to NotePlan brings a Global Search function (searches happen across Calendar and Notes) and a very nice nested tags function (very similar to Bear’s).
Both functions significantly...