Alexander Deliyannis
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Just a note to say that Direct Access is on a 40% discount today at Bits du Jour:
http://bitsdujour.com/blog2/wordpress/?p=355
alx
Bibliographic databases
4/9/2007
Daly, thanks, no problem; actually I was the newby in question over at the Zoot forum! I think Robert Brown's answer was well worth reproducing here.
alx
Bibliographic databases
4/8/2007
This is probably a question for Graham Smith, for whom I am not sure whether he still accesses this forum, but I'm posting it here as it might be of interest to others as well.
In the course of my re...
Version Control
4/6/2007
You might want to take a look at Neville Frank's quick guide to setting up TortoiseSVN and Subversion in his Surfulater blog:
http://blog.surfulater.com/2007/02/28/get-up-and-running-with-tortoisesvn-...
Wikis to HTML
4/6/2007
Thanks for the suggestions; I'm trying out the free alternatives first (Notebook and Wikidad) and then DogMelon Studio.
alx
Wikis to HTML
4/4/2007
I need to create an on-line resource within an existing website. An idea is to use Brainstorm's web publishing feature ( http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/index.php?tag=publish_html ) but I was think...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>I find that often using an alternative program can make me aware of a better way of doing things, strategies that can easily enough be implemented in the first program.
...
Ike Washington wrote:
>So, we spend so much time in these forums. So,
>we spend too much time installing and uninstalling software. Something similar,
>though not as dramatic, must have happened - o...
Organising the organisers
4/3/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I was wondering if other users have better methods for organising
>their organising ...
The only "method" I have is to always use one specific program to look for specific infor...
Jack Crawford wrote:
>I'm much less satisfied with my writing environment. I need business rather
>than academic functionality so I use a mixture of project management tools and the
>Notemap/Word ...
Jack Crawford wrote:
>I've looked at Directory Opus before, but it is considerably more expensive
>than its competitors. What feature(s) do you think makes it worth the extra money over
>and above ...
Reducing my PIM/Knowledge/Writing Tools
3/30/2007
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>UR is my workhorse now. It took me around one year to understand its potential
>and I think this is the major issue: the learning curve. I remember when I first
>installed...
Harlander wrote:
>While other programs may look better, give you the warm feeling of "I know
>that the right information has to be there somewhere, I just have to search for it",
>Aibase won't let ...
My own choices are the three programs I currently use most of the time (apart for the office suite applications):
- UltraRecall as my main project database
- Brainstorm as my main text development env...
My vote goes for UltraRecall as well. I would keep all my indispensable information in there (as I do already).
As for the rest of the tools I use for brainstorming and text editing, I could probably...
MyBase and Surfulater
3/21/2007
Cassius wrote:
>Because I could not start a new file in the test Surfulater, I can't speak to
>file sizes. Also, I could not find the cloning feature Surfulater supposedly
>has.
The cloning featu...
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Alex, do you not get the same effect with UR when you use the child panel?
The effect is similar, but the tree remains as populated as ever. My point was that in the approach fo...
Cassius wrote:
>I'm nauseous.
You can't please them all!
After seeing the diagram you sent, I have the impression that you prefer clean, straight lines and boxes in clear flow, rather than the over...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
"...an outliner tree column is much more effective in terms of screen real estate"
(This topic has a multitude of threads running already; sorry for adding more, but at le...
Cassius wrote:
>I do not use structured diagrams for my own use, except when I am
>presented with one (say, from a contractor) and go through it to be sure it is logical
>and complete. I use struc...
Zoot News
3/19/2007
I have just bought a license for Zoot, after trying it out for a couple of weeks and extensively reading posts regarding its usability (I find it particularly brilliant that the Zoot forum archive its...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
"I think it may in fact be those who are NOT visual thinkers who benefit most [from mind maps]. If spatial visualization is not a strength, the mindmap provides a visible spa...
ProjectKickstart 4 released
3/19/2007
I downloaded PK4 and tried it out extensively; I find it much improved and still extremely intuitive and user-friendly.
Greek character handling is better --Greek characters can be entered and proper...
So what happened to Idea
3/10/2007
As mentioned elsewhere, as far as I can tell, IDEA! appears to be a sort of spin-off from SYCON who are active as a project and quality management consultancy firm, providing methodologies and tools t...
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Are there any real
>plusses to this this product?
For me the main plus is the concept itself, i.e. a hierarchical spreadsheet. Actually, that was how I first saw it mentioned i...