MadaboutDana
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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...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
7/12/2013
I've used Celtx on and off for a while, and my son - a budding film director - swears by it, because it's optimised for people like him.
But as a writer, I much prefer Scrivener. Or MyInfo, or Smerek...
Quite!
What does appeal to me about OneNote is its seamless cross-platform compatibility - now that's impressive! Pages look exactly the same on my desktop, Android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy Note ru...
I like Outline+, I must say - it's mainly very good.
But I have to confess I like the latest Microsoft offering even more. Not least because the synching is very good (rather better than Outline+, an...
I wouldn't know about MS Office 2013 - I currently have no intention of upgrading. I'm talking about OneNote for iOS (and OneNote for Android, which I've just tested in a similar way). So the mobile v...