MadaboutDana
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The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
I guess it's all down to horses for courses. I've experimented with dozens of different task/project management apps, and I've found that there's a real trade-off between bells and whistles and total ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Yes, you can, Numbers on the Mac is much more powerful than Numbers on the iPad. The mistake is to think of Numbers as in any way equivalent to Excel - it isn't, it works in a fundamentally different ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Okay, I've done it - I feel a little embarrassed, a little dirty, even a little childish. But yes, I've gone and got an iPad.
And promptly experimented with n billion apps, most of which are nowhere ...
Could I just mention a quite nice hierarchical to-do solution: Task List Guru (free) and its big brother Swift To-Do List (both from www.dextronet.com). Good, sensible design. Only downside: no networ...
Take a closer look at OneNote. Two good articles here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onenotetips/archive/2008/05/29/audio-and-video-recording-in-onenote.aspx
and here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratl...
NoteTab for note-taking
4/17/2011
Hi other Bill! Sounds like you could do worse than KeyNote (the revised NF version). Although it doesn't quite match your minimalism, you can search across notes, in one note (= one outline tree), you...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/13/2011
Well, I've played around with the latest unstable version, 1.3.5, (and unstable versions before that, mainly 1.3.3) and I never had a crash or even a flicker. I notice that certain significant softwar...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/13/2011
You might want to take a look at the rather unusual TreeLine, which allows you to build semi-relational/semi-hierarchical databases in a tree/note combination. There's nothing else quite like it aroun...
new Treesheets version
4/5/2011
... and yes, the marvellous Wouter has finally added folding to TreeSheets, making it into a truly impressive multidimensional information manager; kind of like the thinking man's mindmapper (sorry, t...
Amazing new discovery
4/4/2011
Hi folks, just thought I'd update you all on latest developments on the Smereka front. First, just to say that I've invested in the TreeProjects version, and it's very nice. But I did run into some pr...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/1/2011
This does look interesting - I've tried MyInfo before, and not been desperately impressed (didn't work quite as well as it said it did, if you see what I mean). But the new features are tempting. One ...
Bonsai outlines on iPad
4/1/2011
You're right - your previous post encouraged me to go away and look at it, and I immediately bought it for my iPhone! Sad or wot?! It's a nice little app, and probably even better on the iPad (that's ...
Anthemion
3/20/2011
As people may have noticed, quite a lot of work avoidance has been going on this weekend (ahaha!), and I thought I'd catch up with an old favourite of mine, Anthemion (www.anthemion.com). No, not a pr...
Amazing new discovery
3/20/2011
Actually, Graham, there is one other unusual feature in Smereka that I haven't seen in similar info managers (although it's fairly standard in e.g. wikis), and that's the versioning. It's really quite...
Amazing new discovery
3/20/2011
Ah Graham, you did make me laugh! You're quite right, so many promising projects fall by the wayside. But Yaroslav has kindly confirmed that he does have a roadmap (including a collaborative version, ...
Tasks vs. To-Do Items in Outlook 2007
3/19/2011
I make no bones about hating Outlook, and discarded it long ago. I just wish somebody would take the amazing concepts behind Everdesk Optima (www.everdesk.com) and develop them further. Sadly this ext...
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
While I entirely sympathise with your point of view, I would respectively point out that there's a huge difference between a Word document and an SQLlite database. Word I use every day, and have learn...
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
Hm - a little negative, Graham, although I know what you mean. A few years back I was a major UltraRecall user, but the developer went quiet for quite a long period. However, they're certainly back wi...
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
Hi Yaroslav, very glad you've joined the forum!
Cheers,
Bill
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
One final remark before I log off and potter back off to the Highlands again. Smereka is entirely developed using free/open-source software, as follows:
Libraries:
SQLite ( http://www.sqlite.org/ )
w...
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
OMG! It stores revisions, too, and you can scroll through them in a separate window (if they're RTF or text files)! What an amazing piece of work!
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
Actually, the TreeProjects version does have mass-export facilities - entire branches can be exported to either RTF or text or HTML files! It's well worth experimenting with the TreeProjects version -...
Single-pane outliners
3/19/2011
Nah, it's a cynical, suspicious grown-up thing. Anybody involved in business is much less likely to store their info on some unknown third-party website which could be raided at any time by some over-...
Amazing new discovery
3/19/2011
Wow, guys 'n' gals, I've just been playing with a seriously impressive piece of software, put together in his spare time by a Ukrainian programmer - in C/C++ and SQLlite. Called Smereka, it comes in t...
Fair 'nuff, David - it sounds as if you make full use of Citavi's plethora of features, in which case I stand in awe. Certainly Citavi are pointing the way to a form of integrated application that wil...