MadaboutDana
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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...
Well, I've just switched off WiFi on my iPad, and guess what? OneNote is functioning absolutely fine. I've skipped between pages, opened several different notebooks, edited various pages etc. etc. It'...
Don't forget to double-check first! ;-)
Nook tablets - bit of a bargain
7/3/2013
I know this isn't exactly on-topic, but Barnes & Noble are currently selling off their Nook stock at ridiculously low prices.
I've just acquired a Nook HD for a nominal sum, and it's a very tidy litt...
Actually, that's a rather brilliant idea. I suppose in principle it's what an organisational app should be about.
I do feel sorry for the guys behind Outline+, which is a very good app. But I didn't realise OneNote no longer supports offline! That's a blow - I'll have to check it out. Could be a boon for Outline+...