MadaboutDana
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Off topic advice sought
4/29/2019
If you're going for an HTML/web page-based solution, you need a powerful, modern editor that can generate responsive pages.
There are now some great solutions, even for non-experts. One of the more p...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/27/2019
You're right!
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/27/2019
@Simon,
Interesting. I've moved entirely over to FoxTrot Pro recently, and I'm starting to experiment with the iOS app as well. As a replacement for DT, it's not bad – while it doesn't have the ...
Off topic advice sought
4/26/2019
We translate a number of magazines, digital and otherwise, but they're mainly for large corporates with significant resources.
I subscribe to a number of digital "magazines" of various kinds myself. ...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/26/2019
You can filter using his "smart stacks". And the search function acts as a kind of filter, since it's non-field-specific (which could be a turnoff, actually). No highlighting, alas.
And no, it doesn'...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/25/2019
This looks really quite dinky. You could use it for all sorts of stuff.
I might have to check it out...
Good one, Andy! Wow, that's a huge improvement - and straight into the features (plus benefits)!
Bravo!
Bill
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/25/2019
Quite by chance, I stumbled across this ingenious (and, it appears, fairly recent) piece of software, based specifically on the Zettelkasten approach:
synapsen
http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/25/2019
Interesting on the smart tags front. To my disappointment, the web server - although much improved - still doesn't highlight search hits in target documents. This is a shame.
However, even the beta s...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/24/2019
Yes, well said. This is where software can become dangerous - the more automated a process becomes, the less actual thought and manipulation (a vital cognitive stimulator) is involved in putting toget...
It's always interesting to know how writers work. The great C. S. Lewis (yes, I know it's fashionable to knock him nowadays, but just read "Out of the Silent Planet" or "Till We Have Faces" and tell m...
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 ...