MadaboutDana
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Thanks, Lucas, interesting.
There's a superb essay by somebody called "Nathan" in the comments on the front page (http://journler.com/2016/07/08/alpha/) detailing a whole range of information manage...
outliner software wanted: single outline with arbitrary lines marked as nodes for an overview
9/3/2016
A good - and free - option for what you're describing (as I understand it) would be TreeSheets, which runs well on Windows, but also on other platforms.
More info here (it's worth checking out the tu...
Yes, I think that sums it up pretty well!
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
I'm really not sure there's any larger lesson to take away from Vesper.
>When it launched, it was expensive, limited in features (t...
Yes, I've read Gruber's analysis, but I still think the original concept was flawed.
There are just too many good note-taking apps around - and if you add the number of good task managers, you're lef...
I don't know how many people in this forum used Vesper, an iOS note-taking app with pleasant synchronisation features, but the app was recently discontinued and its sync server shut down.
Soulmen are...
TextNut turns into Kardnote?
8/24/2016
Well, that's not strictly true - TextNut continues to evolve, and is turning into a fairly powerful platform on both Mac and iOS.
But Kardnote is a rather charming alternative by the same develo...
DevonThink To Go 2.0 Has Arrived
8/24/2016
Hm, that is interesting. I use DEVONthink on the Mac exclusively as a (very powerful) reference database. I haven't experimented with using it for anything else, let alone with using the iOS version a...
Evernote: OneNote importer for Mac
8/19/2016
I thought I'd open a new thread for Mac users: Microsoft have just released an Evernote importer for Mac, available from:
https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote
PDF cataloging
8/18/2016
The cheapest option would be to:
- set up a network file share
- store your PDFs in a carefully structured folder hierarchy (the "index")
- use Adobe Reader to carry out Advanced Searches either on th...
DevonThink To Go 2.0 Has Arrived
8/5/2016
Damn, that's useful! Thanks for the tip, didn't pick up on that.
Cheers,
Bill
Ulysses Mobile is released
8/5/2016
I am a complete twerp. There I was, lamenting Ulysses's non-standard use of markup - and totally forgetting that you can produce your very own markup scheme, using your own preferred codes. Doh!
That...
Ulysses Mobile is released
8/4/2016
Reading the MacDrifter article, I see that the journalist has indeed tried to sync all his text files in one go (loads of subfolders with over 2000 files!). Bold, but perhaps a little rash with a new ...
Ulysses Mobile is released
8/4/2016
Having made soothing noises about Dropbox, I feel honour-bound to mention that I don't synchronise more than one Dropbox folder with Ulysses (you appear to be able to add as many as you like). I don't...
Ulysses Mobile is released
8/4/2016
Well, I've installed the new Ulysses for iOS on all my machines (iPhone, iPod, iPad 2, iPad Mini 3) and it's brilliant! Dropbox sync seems to work well, as a matter of fact - it's very easy to set up,...
FoldingText + Editorial
8/2/2016
I agree, Editorial TaskPaper is actually better than the original. One of the frustrating things about TaskPaper, and the reason I no longer use it, is that it doesn't support any kind of Markdown.
F...
FoldingText + Editorial
7/31/2016
I've been pining for an iOS version of Outlinely for a while now. I like the desktop version of Outlinely very much; it's very quick to use, quite flexible, and it's easy to move items from one part o...
I've just been invited to join the OctopusNote beta, and after a preliminary play, am very impressed! It's got pretty much everything you could possibly want, including the ability to import web pages...
Good move. As a small business, we also use synchronisation services of various kinds (Dropbox, Evernote, but in particular Soonr), and have dedicated one of our microservers to backing up these servi...
MS Word gains new functions
7/26/2016
Interesting news of brand-new features in Word, including an Editor and a Researcher.
The former acts as a kind of super grammar checker, the latter as a replacement for Google search and citation ma...
Evernote raises prices
7/26/2016
An even closer equivalent is Letterspace (for Mac/iOS), but Bear Notes is a very elegant implementation of the concept (I'm running the beta).
As for Scrivener: yes, it does indeed sync through Dropb...
Pigeonhole
7/20/2016
Yo Paul,
>I've asked the developer to consider a number of improvements. The main
>thing is to change the document storage philosophy so we can store our
>snippets in a folder hierarchy instead of l...
Scrivener for iOS in July 2016?
7/20/2016
Only had a chance for a quick play, but yes, it does indeed look great!
Pigeonhole
7/15/2016
Kevin has just e-mailed me to say that a new version of Pigeonhole will be available in a couple of days that will indeed include the ability to search through and zoom snippets!
This will turn Pigeo...
Scrivener for iOS in July 2016?
7/7/2016
The features being unveiled by Keith on the Literature & Latte blog really do look exceedingly enticing.
Coupled with a streamlined version of the desktop app, which he is also promising in the near ...
Scrivener for iOS in July 2016?
6/27/2016
I especially like the two-pane view. Now that's very cool. Notebooks has a similar feature, but Notebooks is on a bit of a go-slow at the moment.