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"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...
Collecting web pages 2.0
9/2/2014
Hi folks,
In the knowledge that knowledge management is part of what this forum is all about, I thought I'd revert to the interesting subject of web pages and how best to capture/archive them.
All t...
Crossover for Mac 13 on sale
8/30/2014
For those who'd like to run Windows software without (a) investing in/installing Parallels or another virtual OS manager or (b) investing in Windows, Crossover is an impressively competent solution. I...
Totally off-topic
8/29/2014
Actually, I was under the impression that my MacBook Air didn't HAVE any fans, until a glitch in FoxTrot Pro caused a memory overload and the fans suddenly kicked in. It was a genuine shock - I was l...
Totally off-topic
8/29/2014
I know this has absolutely nothing to do with outlining or indeed any other form of information management as such, except perhaps for the most spurious of connections involving the intellectual benef...
Notability is now available for the Mac
8/29/2014
I'm delighted - I've always liked Notability, but haven't used it as much as I could have done because of the lack of Mac/PC compatibility. Now, encouraged by Paul's experience, I'm testing the iCloud...
Scribbleton - minimalist "wiki"
8/25/2014
Oh, and another thing it doesn't do (yet) is use Apple's automatic elegantification function ('substitution'), which automatically converts straight apostrophes/quotation marks to curly ones. That's e...
Scribbleton - minimalist "wiki"
8/25/2014
To be fair, it is only an alpha version. And it looks very nice! I've noticed:
a) poor export, as you suggest (looks like somebody forgot to specify the 'scribbleton' folder as part of the export pro...
Another goodie for Mac users
8/25/2014
Ha, quite right, Hugh. I've watched OmniGroup since long before moving over to Mac, and been as part-baffled/part-impressed as you clearly are. They're expensive, they don't always include longed-for ...
Another goodie for Mac users
8/24/2014
Oh, and it's worth mentioning that it supports tagging, as well. Tags are bound to each Library, however (so can't be used across Libraries). You can have as many tags in each note as you like (a dist...