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Evernote Privacy Policy Changes
12/19/2016
As a Mac user, I currently use Bear and Outlinely for general notes of all kinds. I run both on macOS and iOS.
Bear is ideal for storing short extracts from web pages, and for making long lists of ta...
iMindMap10 released today
12/14/2016
Robustly priced, but it does look like a very nicely designed mind-mapping product with some really nice extra features (love the Timeline thingy).
Outlinely 2.5 adds wiki-style links
12/14/2016
Yes, I'm really rather impressed by the latest iOS version. There are still a couple of slightly buggy things, but nothing major – the synchronisation seems to be working well, and the look and ...
Outlinely 2.5 adds wiki-style links
11/25/2016
Yes, the "Search and Navigate" feature is like the "Open Quickly" feature on steroids - it's more like the very powerful Ulysses "Open" feature in iOS, in fact.
I'm glad to hear the developer's being...
Not entirely unlike Scapple, by Literature and Latte (of Scrivener fame). Looks interesting, I shall give it a whirl.
Nottingham 3
11/13/2016
Interesting, Chris, thanks. And there are those who'll tell you the Apple platforms are for the less technically inclined...
They're also for those in search of speed and efficiency. A recent review ...
Nottingham 3
11/11/2016
Hey, Nottingham was boring anyway... :-)
Trunk Notes supports the most stripped-down of Markdown tables - leave out the lines on each side, and you'll get a proper table. So rather than doing:
|Head...
Nottingham 3
11/11/2016
Fascinating. Trunk Notes does actually support extended Markdown, just not the GitHub flavour. So you can, for example, create tables. It also automatically parses dashes and converts quotation marks/...
Nottingham 3
11/11/2016
Another sad CRIMPing detail: Trunk Notes doesn't support the GitHub flavour of Markdown, so I thought there was no way of introducing checkboxes (for lists, todos etc.).
But actually you can, using a...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Yeah, dude, and to think it started with a simple discussion of [[wiki linking]] - which, by the way, Trunk Notes also supports, although it's not mentioned in the documentation.
The Trunk Notes ver...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Yes, sorry about that!
Okay, confession time:
My flurry of notes reflected a sudden CRIMPing seizure, which has ended with me reinstalling Trunk Notes on all my iOS devices, discovering that it sync...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Although if you like things like encrypted notes, embedded files (including multimedia files), custom CSS (including custom CSS that responds to specific tags and reformats pages accordingly!), then T...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Ah, and actually, I had forgotten, but Trunk Notes supports Markdown as well. Hm. Actually, it's pretty damn powerful. But doesn't look as nice as Kiwi!
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Plus Trunk Notes supports tags, snippets and various other rather elegant things like functions and custom headers/footers.
I've never really got on with Trunk Notes, for some reason, although I've t...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Trunk Notes, another popular iOS personal wiki manager, uses WikiWord linking syntax. The advantage of Kiwi is that it supports double-bracket links and uses Markdown for editing.
But... no search fu...
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Sorry, I should have explicitly stated that yes, Kiwi also supports this [[wiki linking]] syntax.
Nottingham 3
11/10/2016
Worth noting that Bear also supports this wiki linking syntax, in addition to its own internal linking system (each note has its own inbuilt ID).
I've also just discovered quite a nice little persona...
Bear review
11/7/2016
Oh dear, how embarrassing: I said Bear doesn't copy the source URL when you copy and paste a web page or part of a web page into a note by pressing the button (installed as a Safari or Chrome extensio...
Bear review
11/7/2016
Well, I'm currently using Bear on all my iOS devices and my Mac, and it's rapidly becoming my go-to notetaker. That's because it does indeed have a sharing extension, plus a very good web page import ...
Bear review
11/4/2016
I've just written to Federico mentioning a couple of things he left out of his review:
- web page import (definitely an impressive feature) and
- the search function (highlighting, constrained by tag...
Bear review
11/4/2016
I have it installed on everything in sight, and it's a very nice version 1.0; the last-minute nested tags feature is especially cool (although the concept is slightly flawed; I can't see an obvious so...
Outlinely for iOS
11/1/2016
I think you're right, Paul. I'm looking forward to Ulysses having some competition in this space!
Bear Writer is looking very promising, too. The fourth beta is nice and powerful, with an excellent s...
Outlinely for iOS
10/31/2016
I am also very intrigued by their mention of an "interactive sparse tree". Anybody know what they're talking about?
Ah, okay, good old Org-mode explains: http://orgmode.org/manual/Sparse-trees.html
Outlinely for iOS
10/31/2016
Wow, finally. The developer is decidedly unresponsive to e-mails (which makes me smile when I see the exhortation, in the screenshot, to send them e-mails with feedback), but Outlinely is definitely o...
iThoughts version 4.0
10/26/2016
New version of iThoughts launched today (more at http://toketaware.com/blog/2016/10/10/v4-released). Now includes Markdown, which is cool. In fact, although the Mac version is quite pricy, I'm tempted...