MadaboutDana
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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.
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" ...