MadaboutDana
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OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Sorry, thinking a little sporadically - apologies for multiple entries.
I should mention that I use BT Sync to share data between my various devices (four at the last count); I've watched it progress...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Actually, it's worth reading the latest blog update on BitTorrent Sync - the latest version has added some very powerful features, and is compatible with an increasingly wide range of NAS devices. It'...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Also worth mentioning is the very good and increasingly speedy BitTorrent Sync. This isn't very well known, but effectively gives you your own private Dropbox-like service between multiple machines. I...
Annotations for Mac
9/15/2014
Well, I think it's great. There are loads of PDF annotators around, but very few that allow you to import text, RTF and Word documents and annotate them as if they were PDFs. What a great idea! I've C...
OutlineEdit 1.1 update
9/15/2014
Nice one, Robin - excellent new features!
The ability to filter by 'categories' (= exclusive tags) is especially welcome, but you've also given it a very nice extra twist by making it possible to exp...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
You're right, it is Condoleezzzza.
And yes, Franz, I'm overstating it shamefully, entirely for comedic effect. But the decision of the US courts to insist that Microsoft should hand over data held in...
Silver Note Compared with One Note
9/6/2014
I haven't used it for a while, but did enjoy using it while I was still on Windows. Yes, it's very similar to OneNote, but simpler in some ways. A very elegant piece of design, marred by the fact that...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
On the one hand, impressed by the expansion of Dropbox services.
On the other, would point out that they are still ineluctably US-based.
And they have Hilary Clinton as a director (just saying!).
I...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
For what it's worth, I am currently experimenting with DEVONthink to go, and while it can be very temperamental, when it does work, it works fast and well. I'm in the middle of a large project involvi...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
UK readers interested in DEVONthink will also find some useful resources on Amazon (the Kindle edition of Kissell's book is GBP 7.40).
There's also a nice summary of DEVONthink's top features at Maca...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
Hot dang! I can see there's an awful lot still to explore. Thanks, folks!
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
No, I don't think so - at least, I can't see/find any way of doing that. You'd be looking at tags and labels, in that case, and presumably making use of the (Auto) Classify function as well. I won't p...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
Boxcryptor does look very cool. We've never had any issues with Soonr.com, mind you, which also does 256-bit encryption (of everything), secure file access over web URLs, full-text searches and has cl...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
On the subject of groups vs subfolders. I think the reason DEVONthink refers to folders/subfolders as 'Groups' is because there's a fundamental difference in the way the data is handled. If you group ...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
It does, however, perpetuate what appears to be something of a general belief about DEVONthink – that it doesn't do subfolders. Actually, it does. It's not an obvious feature, but it's a conveni...
Definitely worth exploring Gingko, then (gingkoapp.com). But I'd much prefer it if they'd finally produce a separate app. Whether this will happen now, I don't know...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/5/2014
Dropbox hasn't got a very good rep for encryption. For business purposes, we use Soonr.com. For personal purposes, I tend to use OneDrive and (yes, you may laugh) iCloud (which will shortly become a m...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
You magic bunny! I knew I'd seen one somewhere, but couldn't for the life of me remember where.
The point about multiple databases is a good one. Oh dear...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
Okay, so having tried DEVONthink Pro, I've reverted to DEVONthink Personal, which does most of what I want (for the time being!) and is a bit like Together/Yojimbo/Stache on steroids. It could be more...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
I have run across an annoying issue with Scrivener, when used heavily for web archiving: it crashes. Disconcerting, when it's normally so stable.
So: DevonThink testing time it is!
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/4/2014
Thanks, jarechu, that's a useful tip!
Cheers,
Bill
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/3/2014
Ah, I remember one good reason why I got so annoyed with NoteSuite. A couple, in fact.
a) the search function is weirdly lacking in MacOS: although NS will find web pages, it won't allow you to searc...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/3/2014
Ah rats! I had the nasty feeling somebody - and in fact, here we have several somebodies - would tell me to revisit DevonThink. I've already collected so many interesting information management tools ...
Chromebook Apps?
9/3/2014
One of the good things about the Chromebook idea (I don't have one, so I'm musing here, really) is that in principle, you can use any Cloud provider. OneDrive is now a very enticing option, because of...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/2/2014
Actually, Thoughts is worth another look, because it preserves HTML formatting surprisingly well, and like Notebooks, also has a wide variety of output formats, including RTF, Word PDF and Open Docume...