Chris Thompson
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- June 2006
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- 2/13/2026
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By the way, if you use Ecco mostly as a task management or GTD tool (for which it is excellent because of the ability to have custom views), the new Mac app OmniFocus is probably the best replacement....
I absolutely agree with you. Ecco is one of a kind.
For what it's worth, SQLnotes is an Ecco replacement. There have been a couple of other vaporware attempts over the years (Cold Mountain neXpect,...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/24/2007
Give OmniOutliner a try. The Pro version has a very good automatic styling and formatting system, and it can be used as a word processor, including printing as you'd expect from a word processor (i.e...
Tinderbox 4 is out
8/21/2007
Just a heads-up that Tinderbox 4 is out. Tinderbox is somewhat like a hybrid between Zoot and PersonalBrain, or a programmable, agent-based version of MindManager, depending on how you want to look a...
Zoot Grows on You
8/21/2007
I can definitely live with plain text. Beyond bold and italics, I've never used styled text in an information manager. I have a separate database and tagging system for PDFs, full documents, and ima...
If you're looking for a really hardcore pure outliner, with all the major features of More as well as a swath of new ones, be sure to check out TAO:
http://artec-software.com/products/neo/en_index.htm...
Advice needed from Mac owners
5/3/2007
Another bibliography manager worth considering is BibDesk. It's meant to integrate with TeX/LaTeX (which is phenomenally well-supported on OS X), but it's a good Mac application in its own right, and...
Ecco does this. In fact, it does it by default in all but two views. Ecco calls the previous levels "context parents" and displays them in a different color in order to distinguish them from the act...
What good is Paperport?
10/10/2006
These days, all of the major scanning packages (OmniPage, FineReader, Acrobat Pro, etc.),have an option to do OCR and embed searchable text in the PDF files they create. There's no need to stick with...
Outlines of outlines
10/8/2006
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>The presence of MS OneNote in the market is the avowed reason
>that at least one developer of a Mac product with outlining of outlining, Circus
>Ponies NoteBook, admits it...
Outliner or Outline Processor?
10/8/2006
It seems to me the terminology has definitely shifted to "outliner." If someone used the term "outline processor" these days, I'd think of some kind of XML processor, like Microsoft's InfoPath, rathe...
ADM Group Down?
8/5/2006
For what it's worth, I emailed the ADM sales team (sales@adm21.net) a month and a half ago asking about the software's current status, and received no reply. My guess is as good as any, but I'd imagi...
Opal -- new outliner for Mac OS X
7/3/2006
David Dunham wrote:
>The architecture should support multiple columns,
>cloning, smart filters. (Though I'm not sure why smart filtering requires columns.)
That's good to hear. You're right, smar...
Opal -- new outliner for Mac OS X
7/2/2006
Looks great. It's nice to see another good single-pane outliner with multiline entries on OS X. Any comments on your future goals/directions for the program? I'll resist making feature requests bec...
Pivot tables for outlines
6/13/2006
I've tried most outliners over the years and just stumbled across one today that has a feature I haven't seen before. The designer calls it "reassociation", but It's a lot like Excel's pivot tables. ...