Chris Thompson
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Another alternative you might consider is Zotero. It's billed as an academic reference manager, but it allows much the same style of organization as DevonThink, including both one-to-many logical topi...
There isn't, unfortunately -- I wish there was. One app that's not on your list that is "kind of" close to DevonThink is Lucion's FileCenter Professional. You might want to look at it -- if you don't ...
"Summerfest" Mac Software Sale
6/25/2018
Exactly this. There's nothing else out there with that kind of deep toolset for making sense of research whose structure you're not quite sure how to tackle when you start. Fallows' work trying to pie...
Why folding?
6/20/2018
For me, the appeal of folding is being able to refer to multiple relevant sections of a document with a chunk of intervening text at once on-screen *by manipulating the document* rather than by manipu...
You can link to sections in Notion (see here: https://www.notion.so/Link-directly-to-a-section-on-the-page-1bdf0ef9b8a04e9392cbce77184ec400 ) I don't think you can link to individual paragraphs within...
Given your concerns, if you haven't tried it, you should give Notion.so a shot as an alternative to Dokuwiki. It has a similar basic concept (plain text files for pages, ability to download the whole ...
There isn't really a ConnectedText equivalent to namespaces in DokuWiki. Tags are basically the same thing as ConnectedText's categories. Namespaces are closer to folders (a page can only be in one na...
Tinderbox Update (new version 7.5)
6/1/2018
Although he was working the infrastructure for a Windows version a while ago (while he was reworking the framework in preparation for the last major version), my guess is that plan has been shelved. I...
Thanks for the mention of Tines. I hadn't heard of it, but it does seem interesting for someone looking for something a little more focused than org mode.
best outliner you use? (2018)
5/3/2018
My guess is that Tinderbox for Windows is currently on ice. The developer restructured a lot of the code a couple of years ago to make Windows development easier, but he doesn't appear to be focusing ...
The future of OneNote
4/28/2018
Thanks for the replies... I probably should have been more specific. The DevonThink features I associate with the product are the ability to digest large collections of source documents (PDFs, Word/RT...
The future of OneNote
4/27/2018
Does anyone know if they're going to discontinue the ability to use Sharepoint as a back end? I can understand discontinuing support for OneNote notebooks on network shares (which worked, but not well...
Voodoopad 5.2
4/20/2018
If Primate Labs bought it, it's probably in good hands in terms of future development I think. Those people are competent and dedicated -- they're not one of those teams that buys an app and tries to ...
The future of OneNote
4/20/2018
IMHO OneNote is an example of a program that got locked into a series of design decisions too early and just never was allowed to develop to its full potential. It works reasonably well as a kind of d...
That's true, the need to manually tag is why the "semantic web" concept ended up petering out, though it spawned piles and piles of research papers on "ontologies" and "triplet stores" and a lot of ot...
You'd probably enjoy taking a look at this paper: http://students.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mwra1g13/msc/comp6045/pdfs/Bernstein%20-%20Can%20We%20Talk%20about%20Spatial%20Hypertext.pdf
It's not very technical,...
Drafts 5 for iOS goes subscription
4/18/2018
Thanks. Maybe it's time for me to invest in Dragon.
--Chris
Paul Korm wrote:
Drafts 5 uses iOS voice-to-text recognition. Drafts 5 is modified to
>record more-than-45 second chunks. Hours long? ...
Drafts 5 for iOS goes subscription
4/18/2018
Could you say a little more about how this feature works? I've looked at various options for online transcription of multiple very long recordings (think hours, not minutes), and even the Amazon AWS a...
best outliner you use? (2018)
4/11/2018
My current top tools are:
Notion.so, v2: This is a web and desktop app with a novel flexible data model. Notes can be children of other notes (standard stuff), but also simulateously exist across a v...
Dark themes
3/1/2018
The paper you link to isn't about reading -- it's about something closer to reaction times in a video game situation.
For reading and eye strain, this is one example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
Dark themes
2/28/2018
Part of the problem is that as screen technology has improved, contrast ratios have increased substantially. Better contrast specs are desirable for watching media and a number of other applications, ...
Outliner for Evernote
2/26/2018
If you're just looking to sync text, most text editors these days seem to have Evernote plugins. I used the Evernote plugin for Sublime Text for a while. It had some nifty features, for example you co...
I'd definitely be interested in your comments/experiences on the Remarkable as a PDF reader. There isn't really a lot of detail on the website about how the software works.
In particular, are highlig...
TiddlyWiki resurgent
1/29/2018
I don’t know why the TiddlyWiki developers don’t emphasize the ’’.hta’’ method of running TiddyWiki on Windows. On the website it’s described as some kind of ...
That's an interesting idea! I've only used it briefly. On first blush I was thinking about what it provides that Keynote doesn't, because the interfaces are similar. But upon reflection, there is a c...