MadaboutDana
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Scrivener for iOS in July 2016?
6/27/2016
... you naughty boy, you didn't mention the highly drool-worthy (and enticingly short) video in the blog post.
Keith's obviously learned a thing or two from the canny Ulysses team and their reveal-ba...
Pigeonhole
6/27/2016
Well, yes, I kind of see your point - if you're already invested in iThoughtsX. But Pigeonhole is much cheaper, and for a text-focused chap like me, much friendlier. No need to mess about with mind ma...
Pigeonhole
6/26/2016
Just discovered a rather nice little app in one of my trawls through the Apple Mac Store.
It's called Pigeonhole, and it serves a rather simple function, but does it rather well.
It allows you to im...
One version of Outlinely is now free
6/23/2016
I use it entirely as a Markdown app. You can also do all the same things as rich text, if you prefer, but I use so many Markdown editors that Outlinely fits nicely into my stable. There's a simple "Ma...
One version of Outlinely is now free
6/23/2016
... and Outlinely 2.3 adds word counts, highlights, strikethroughs and theming (oh, and handles two different kinds of tag: hashtags and [at] tags). In fact, I'm currently running Outlinely with a Let...
Organizing Thousands of Quotes
6/9/2016
If you want to go the relational route, but use a Mac rather than a PC, try Ninox, a very nice - and much cheaper - relational database project for Mac, iPad and iPhone "made in Germany". We've been e...
Yo Neville,
I suppose I'd expect there to be some kind of "search within search" function - either by being able to apply a tag filter to an existing set of search results or being able to search wit...
Argh! I've just come across another problematic issue. As it stands, Clibu only finds full words – it doesn't find parts of words (so it won't find the "sand" in "sandwich", for example). Is tha...
Yo Neville,
I've been playing with Clibu, and there's much I like, especially the nested tagging, highlighting of search terms, multilingual support etc.
But - and maybe this is where I need to go a...
That's brilliant, Neville. I look forward to the Mac version!
You may have timed that rather nicely – we're looking to replace an existing in-house search engine.
FoldingText 2.0...
5/11/2016
Nice, I have to say. But I think, on balance, that I still prefer Outlinely.
Although FoldingText has some great options, like permanent wordcount, GitHub-style task lists, comments/highlights etc. ...
The nice developer of OctopusNote informs me that after perfecting the Web app, he's going to roll out separate apps for multiple platforms (including Mac, Windows, iOS, Android). Yippee!
He's planni...
I totally agree, Dr. Andus, but doesn't that just highlight the need to think hard about the international privacy issues raised by Jaslar?
I already use quite a lot of Cloud services: our business u...
Quite right, I was. They're both impressive (TagNotate and MarginNote), but I love the flexibility of OctopusNote.
But not if it's yet another attempt to store all my data in somebody else's "Cloud" ...
Looks fascinating, in truth. Not dissimilar to MarginNotes, the tag-based PDF annotator, but much more flexible in that you're annotating your own notes.
But if it's destined to remain an online app,...
One version of Outlinely is now free
4/28/2016
Wow! Version 2.0 is a huge improvement. Good support for Markdown, tagging, and multiple source folders. The tagging, focus and zoom in (= hoist) features all work really well, allowing you to isolate...
Funnily enough, I was about to mention Quiver.
Good ole' Keith - frustrated with external developers, he's finally developed Scrivener for iOS himself, and his blog posts for April suggest it's going to be amazing.
Meanwhile he's opened up Scrive...
Ulysses Mobile is released
3/9/2016
There's a good review of Ulysses 2.5 for those who don't know it (and even for those who do) on MacStories:
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/review-ulysses-2-5-for-ipad-and-now-iphone/
Ulysses Mobile is released
3/9/2016
Okay, Paul, now I'm dribbling with envy... but my FD won't countenance an iPad Pro, ever since I snuck a couple of iPod Touches through on my IT budget (for filming corporate videos, honest!).
Ulysse...
Virtual machines for CRIMPers
2/26/2016
On the contrary, Dr Andus, very much on-topic; we are, after all, discussing information management, and meta/reflexive processes could be described as outlining in its purest form ;-)
For Mac users,...
Virtual machines for CRIMPers
2/25/2016
I run Windows instances on my Mac, too. I have to, because I use InCopy to enter text directly into a German publisher's servers. Unfortunately, the rather elderly version of InCopy I have doesn't run...
Oh, and I see you do already have auto-suggest, which goes a long way towards autotagging - may even be better. Sorry! I haven't taken a close look at Clibu since it went fully online.
You lovely bunny, Neville! At last, a Surfulater for the desktop that's right up to date and foreign-language capable! Big kisses on both cheeks! I am on fire with impatience!
And I enjoyed the blog ...
Textnut update
2/18/2016
Sorry, should have said iPhone, iPod, iPad. And it's TextNut, not Textnut.
Also worth mentioning that you can customise its appearance fairly extensively, that it has a Zen mode (for non-distraction ...