MadaboutDana
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Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
In retrospect, it's what I should have done. But in the meantime, I take some pleasure in streamlining the way I work as much as possible. And in fact, even a 4GB MBA is not as wimpy as I've heard peo...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Oh, and the final clincher. I've just discovered (doh!) that you can open and edit Keep Everything notes and entries in multiple windows. Perfect for transferring notes and tasks hither and yon.
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Absolutely. And I'd love it if some of these Markdown editors (especially Keep Everything!) included outlining features so you could move items around more conveniently (the only iOS outliner I can th...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Other apps worth mentioning, but which I eventually discarded after due consideration:
OneNote (most platforms)
Outline+ (Mac + iPad)
Circus Notebooks (Mac + iPad)
Notebooks (Mac + iOS)
Notability (M...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Epilogue:
I apologise for this series of lengthy entries, but I thought they might be of interest to fellow CRIMPers, and so I've indulged myself. Hopefully the 'chunking' of the information will make...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Keep Everything has another trick to play here.
Not only can you put all entries into 'Categories' (= folders), you can also 'group' them.
What does this mean? It means you can select a group of ite...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
I had already got into the habit of doing something some people will regard as slightly peculiar.
After saving a web page to Keep Everything, I quickly review the article view of that page and ensure...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
You're right. I tried Workflowy, as well as Omnioutliner (the only rich-text cross-platform outliners around). They're good, but as you remark, not good enough.
If you're going to have a couple of ap...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Sometimes something comes along that causes you to fundamentally rethink the way you do things.
I've had one of those moments.
Just to provide some context: I'm working (almost) exclusively on Mac a...
Hi Steve,
The latest version of Asana (with its new Calendar function) would do the job very nicely.
Having decided to abandon Skype for business communications (following updated T&C), we've just s...
However, there's no obvious way to save the audio file, let alone synchronise it with the text output.
Various apps will keep track of audio alongside e.g. hand-typed/written notes (OneNote, Notebook...
I've just dictated some stuff into Byword on my iPad, and it works fairly well. It needs a good connection to Apple's servers, and has a peculiar way of dropping the connection quite suddenly. But it'...
Shame about Evernote, kind of underlines the rather vacillating roadmap that appears to be undermining what was once a confident, forward-looking team.
And thanks for the iOS commands: I must try the...
There's also a voice recognition function built into iOS 8. There's a nice article on it here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/type-superfast-real-time-voice-dictation-ios-8/
I have a couple of iOS 8 d...
Evernote haters among us will be amused by the fact that, yes, Evernote for Android does indeed convert spoken input to text, and preserves both the audio and text files, using Google's speech recogni...
Holiday reflections
12/31/2014
The very clever design of the Logitech ultrathin keyboard (which basically does away with the 'Tab' and 'Caps Lock' keys, or rather conflates them with letter keys) means that the main keyboard isn't ...
Holiday reflections
12/29/2014
More on SanDisk wireless drives, for anybody who's interested:
http://www.sandisk.co.uk/products/wireless/
Thanks for that, Daly: a really interesting exploration of how more or less any capable outliner can be turned into a full-scale project/task management app. It's given me food for thought...
I had a similar experience on Mac and moved back to Safari from Chrome, after experimenting with the nice (but not quite nice enough) Opera.
But I've now moved back to Chrome, because the latest 64-b...
Holiday reflections
12/29/2014
I'd entirely agree with Stephen that the most sensible solution to Franz's dilemma is an external keyboard. I've been using a Logitech keyboard with my iPad 2 for years, and it has revolutionised my w...
A message on OutlineEdit
12/28/2014
Hear hear. Currently my favourite Mac outliner. I'm looking forward to seeing what's coming!
Cheers,
Bill
Holiday reflections
12/28/2014
A happy and successful New Year to all.
My shifts:
the first was to Mac, earlier this year. That was a biggie! Fortunately not too traumatic, because much of my essential data was stored in cross-pla...
Curio 30% off till December 28th
12/28/2014
I entirely agree with Paul. Curio's list of features is daunting. But the basic concept is extremely simple; much the same as OneNote.
The best thing to do is plunge in and start experimenting (there...
All of TGS Labs Software is now Freeware
12/19/2014
That is an amazing bargain. Golden Notebooks (and the server version, too) is very powerful; I used to use it quite a lot on Windows. The only reason I gave it up was the rather erratic pricing/licens...
While development on Notebooks has slowed down a tad, I think this is because Alfons is resting after the considerable labours involved in bringing the desktop versions to both Mac and Windows.
He's ...