MadaboutDana
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Fascinating - that early exchange (back in 2012, long before I joined the forum!) is also fascinating.
Yes, you can see why everybody gets so excited by VR/AR and so on. The infinite canvases one cou...
Tinderbox 8 is released
4/16/2019
I love the idea of TB as the perfect tool for tracking emergent trends/situations - that's a really interesting use case.
Of course, tracking one's growing knowledge and any resulting ideas is also a...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/15/2019
Well said, Simon! And thanks to Dr Andus for the update on DynaList's linking – verschlugginer app, I didn't think of trying that out!
And I think that also answers the linking thing - I'm...
Tinderbox 8 is released
4/15/2019
Excellent points by NickG, there. It's true, there aren't many apps that are ideal for just dumping any old info any old how.
I've looked at Tinderbox with interest, especially in light of the enthus...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/12/2019
I'd agree that Dynalist is moving in the right direction. Although links between individual items is tricky (apart from tags, which work extremely well).
One outliner for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
4/12/2019
Yes, when Glam Development make a change, it's generally several changes and significantly improves the app. But long term? Who knows.
One outliner for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
4/11/2019
DynaList has become my go-to multiplatform outliner. But Outlinely would be second.
Good luck with that, Jeffery!
Yes, it is a kind of porn. But what I get very excited about, above all, is the conceptual side - the clever ideas that appear in so many of these apps.
As far as self-...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/6/2019
Oops, yes, forgot askSam. I never got on as well with it as with Idealist - in its heyday, the latter was just so professional (and the scripting language was spectacularly easy to use).
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/5/2019
What you want is Blackwell Idealist. Alas, now deceased.
I can't think, off-hand, of any other app that allows you to add random fields to a single record. Anyone?
Curio 13 has been released
4/3/2019
Thing is, even older versions of Curio are unbelievably powerful. I haven't updated for a couple of years now, but I have no complaints about whichever version I'm currently on (can't remember, offhan...
The Case for Using a Paper Planner
4/2/2019
As someone who touch-types, but also takes more and more brief notes by hand (and wow, am I having to re-learn the skills!), I think there is a significant qualitative difference.
But for speed, touc...
Taskade
4/1/2019
Hi folks,
Sorry, haven't had much time to examine Taskade in detail since its most recent revisions. I had a look at one of the early versions and found it attractive, but slightly less functional th...
The Case for Using a Paper Planner
4/1/2019
This strongly reminds me of a couple of experiments I run from time to time:
First, trying to identify a thought before I articulate it to myself. This is remarkably difficult, and shows why certain ...
That would actually be amazingly cool.
Omnifocus as a Tool for Lists, not Tasks
3/24/2019
Hm, yes, ditto to Paul's remark: it's amazing what you don't see. I've never actually clicked on the "eye" icon (me, an inveterate "click it till it hurts" user!)
What a lot of useful options!
Comparisons of online outliners
3/24/2019
Somebody remarked that DynaList tags are body-embedded – which is true, but DynaList also finds them if you put them in notes.
Omnifocus as a Tool for Lists, not Tasks
3/22/2019
@stephen
Wow, I didn't know it could import documents - thanks for the tip. Thanks also for the tip about universal tagging!
@paul
I use a top-level item labelled "Archive", into which I drag and d...
Omnifocus as a Tool for Lists, not Tasks
3/22/2019
My wife and business partner - an exceedingly busy, well organised and multitasking person - writes her tasks down on paper. And gets through an awful lot.
As a software-oriented person, I now use Dy...
Suggestion for easy, rapid, high-quality website creation: Nicepage (nicepage.com), successor to the impressive Artisteer.
You can use it to create your own website, either directly (i.e. as HTML pag...
Hm, can't think of anything except Ulysses, off-hand. Lemme reflect on it...
Dropbox Paper
3/18/2019
Guilty as charged! Thanks, Luhmann.
Yes, Dropbox is turning into an interesting alternative to The Big Boys. The Business account in particular has some very nice feature, notably its special web pre...
Ulysses v15 Released
3/13/2019
Exactly, Hugh. What also does, I confess, surprise me somewhat is that Ulysses has its own library system, meaning it effectively has its own file format. So some of these features should, in principl...
Ulysses v15 Released
3/13/2019
Having been a bit snarky about Ulysses 15, I'm delighted to find you can open side-by-side editors in multiple windows (on macOS), and even choose the orientation in each separate window (vertical/hor...
Help with a MacJournal 7 issue
3/13/2019
Never seen that before. But try exiting/restarting as a first step. Then, as Dellu suggests, zooming in/out. Then maybe opening the note in a separate window.
I'm assuming it's something you've typed...