MadaboutDana
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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). ...
I was an enthusiastic Curiota user, but I now save interesting tidbits (usually web pages/articles/PDF docs) as PDF files into a specific set of folders (set up as an automatic destination in my Mac S...
All Macs here, apart from an elderly Lenovo laptop that still runs Windows, but only gets taken out about once a year.
The couple of business apps I use in Windows I run in a virtual machine on a Mac...
Forced Upgrades
6/12/2019
As a committed Apple user, I must nevertheless agree that Apple haven't dealt well with a couple of issues:
- the Keyboard Thing!
- the ridiculous Touch Bar
- the lack of ports, in particular of SD ...
Forced Upgrades
6/11/2019
CRIMPing fatigue - love it!
And yes, you're right, there is a Windows version of UpNote.
Yes, Bear is charming. I had a lot of notes in it, in fact. But it kind of... stopped. A bit like the wonderf...
Forced Upgrades
6/11/2019
One of my favourite models is the UpNote one (sorry, Windows users: macOS and iOS only). UpNote is steadily evolving, turning into one of the nicest markdown editors around (support for images, floati...