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Back to ConnectedText
9/4/2013
Okay, I've now downloaded the very latest version of ConnectedText (fired by criticism of the latter in another thread) and have been sniffing at it with interest.
First of all, it is, of course, a f...
Better Bookmarking?
9/4/2013
Another nice feature of Priorities (aside from the free synchronisation) is the fact that you can e-mail yourself tasks. This is another factor that makes up for inadequacies in the Android interface....
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
By "ingenious overview" (whether treelike or not), I mean, of course, "structured overview" (according to a structure defined either by the application itself or by the user's own preferences). Now I'...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
Sorry, I should have added to my very broad definition of an outliner that the breakdown of a "database" (for want of a better term) into segments or sections should be accompanied by some kind of cen...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
Hm - slightly contentious post. I think ConnectedText certainly qualifies as an outliner under the very broad criteria generally applied to the apps/solutions discussed by this group. A ConnectedText ...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/4/2013
I've been running an iPad 2 for the past couple of years, and to be honest? Once you've reached a certain age, the Retina display (while impressive) really isn't worth the extra dosh, because you don'...
Better Bookmarking?
9/4/2013
Quite right - sorry. But hey, you can get a nice little 4th generation iPod for a mere £120 on Amazon nowadays; that could kick off a whole new world of iOS CRIMPing...
Apple's new Cloud-based iWork
9/3/2013
Those of us who've been discussing convenient cross-platform methods of transferring data, storing URLs etc. might do worse than take a look at the new Apple iCloud service, currently in beta (beta.ic...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/3/2013
Ah, I have been dribbling over the Galaxy Note 8 (I hope you've already played with the multiwindow feature - seriously cool), but am gradually concluding that once I dip my toe into 8" tablet waters,...
Better Bookmarking?
9/3/2013
True - but come on, a couple of quid? To test it out? You know you want to!
Better Bookmarking?
9/3/2013
How well you know me, Alexander! Yes, I have been in touch with the developers, and no, they have no immediate plans for an Android version.
At first, I thought that was a killer - as you know, I use...
Better Bookmarking?
9/2/2013
If I think about it, I suppose I use it more as an Evernote replacement (including Evernote's function as a URL repository!). Notebooks preserves the look and feel of web pages better than any other c...
Better Bookmarking?
9/2/2013
Yes, this is the way I've gone, too. But for me, there's no point in a bookmarking app that isn't cross-platform. Increasingly, I gravitate to three apps:
Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid), which runs on ...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
9/2/2013
Funnily enough, I was about to mention Editorial, which is by far the most accomplished and powerful Markdown editor on iOS (and there are a lot of Markdown editors on iOS!). You can use it as a very ...
Advice on research software
8/17/2013
Also worth mentioning that FM Pro supports rich-text fields... although it doesn't import e.g. RTF with all formatting, unfortunately.
Advice on research software
8/17/2013
On the contrary, it's perfectly possible to assign contexts to individual paragraphs in a modern relational database. That's because it's perfectly possible to auto-assign tags, sequential numbers, co...
Advice on research software
8/17/2013
Splendid. Thanks for the contribution, ML - interesting. I've not used graphics in FM Pro, but I know it has copious support for them (I was recently reading an interesting article about how one of th...
Advice on research software
8/17/2013
Hi Wayne,
I've had experience of designing databases using both relational databases (like Access, which is certainly NOT free-form), and genuinely free-form databases (like Blackwell Idealist and, t...
Now Catch is discontinued
8/9/2013
Impressively fair - in fact, a nicely ranked analysis of typical die-offs.
Dearie me. If all these extinctions aren't a good argument in favour of the hybrid Cloud, I don't know what is!
Reminds me ...
Now Catch is discontinued
8/9/2013
Not entirely fair to Catch! They do offer various ways of exporting all your notes, and I've successfully done so to e.g. Evernote. I've re-exported them to the iOS 'As Noted' app, too, which happily ...
Minimalist champions
8/5/2013
Sorry, I've been using confusing terminology. I'm not talking about two-pane outliners (I've used and long discarded Jot+). I'm talking about two-pane EDITORS, i.e. editors that are capable of display...
Minimalist champions
8/5/2013
While I like minimalist interfaces, I miss rich text in many of the most popular note-taking apps. Not least because as a translator, I need to view two documents simultaneously - something that's sim...
Bento end-of-life -- what next?
8/5/2013
This Bento thing is proof positive that the big boys (FileMaker a.k.a. Apple, Google) are just as unreliable as most one-man bands (Catch being the most recent and topical small developer to "change d...
Minimalist champions
8/5/2013
Those who enjoy minimalist apps and are seriously irritated by Catch's cop-out might be amused by quip.com
It sells itself as a word processor for mobile apps, but actually it's a collaboration-optim...
TreeProjects - July 2013
7/26/2013
Hi Donovan: yes, TreeProjects is really very good, and Yaroslav is a very responsive developer. I'm currently using TreeProjects to translate a fairly sizeable magazine project; I've got the PDF origi...