Chris Thompson
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How to digitalize data?
5/4/2010
If you're considering scanning whole books intact (i.e. without cutting the spine), you might consider a book scanner. Then you can highlight the PDF files directly. Most modern PDF tools (Acrobat Pro...
The text-based outline looks a lot better and is more readable IMHO. If your goal is to enhance readability rather than purposeless visual pizazz, you might consider shading the background of every se...
Are you using Excel 2007 or 2010? You might consider downgrading to Excel 2003. I find the ribbon interface works relatively well in Word, but if you're doing repetitive operations in Excel, it slows ...
Just a heads-up that the NeO beta is out at:
http://d-lit.com/en/html_main.html
This is apparently a ground-up rewrite of TAO with a new engine and data representation. It's also 64-bit.
The major a...
GoBinder Discontinued
3/18/2010
The plan is for there to be a OneNote component to Office Live by the time it leaves beta. It wasn't available yet last time I checked, but perhaps that has changed.
There are already various mobile ...
GoBinder Discontinued
3/17/2010
The big new features are versioning of pages and highlighting of who made what changes, both of which are collaboration features. It's becoming a pretty compelling collaboration tool now.
Other big f...
The sort of scenario you're describing is really what Ecco or InfoQube was designed for. (org-mode could handle it too.) I'd recommend Ecco for this.
-- Chris
Mac substitute for OneNote
3/10/2010
The three closest are:
- Circus Ponies Notebook
- ZenGobi Curio
- Aquaminds Notetaker
These are generally more full-featured than OneNote. If he uses the "take a picture of the web page" style of web...
News on TAO (Mac)
3/10/2010
$10 for the most full-featured traditional outliner currently available seems like a steal to me. It's one of the few traditional outliners that does full cloning.
NeO sounds very promising. Thanks f...
Looks like they've reinvented part of Tinderbox.
-- Chris
You might want to give "org-mode" a look as well. I'd put it on par with InfoQube in terms of learning difficulty, though it has a well-written manual and it's conceptually based on trees. Structured ...
iCRIMP
1/29/2010
This is what I was thinking too. PersonalBrain, Curio, and especially Tinderbox would be fantastic on this type of device.
I was also impressed by how they rewrote/rethought the iWork wordprocessing/...
UV Outliner Now Supports Columns
1/27/2010
I think your proposed taxonomy is more confusing than anything. One pane outliners are outliners that are designed primarily to edit outlines in a single, integrated window. There may be support for a...
UV Outliner Now Supports Columns
1/27/2010
I think your proposed taxonomy is more confusing than anything. One pane outliners are outliners that are designed primarily to edit outlines in a single, integrated window. There may be support for a...
For those still trying to wrap their mind around Tinderbox, there's a great introductory posting about it on the Welcome to Sherwood blog:
http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/an-introduc...
Tinderbox 5 is out
12/11/2009
Just a heads-up that Tinderbox 5 was released today:
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox5.html
It finally supports multi-column outlines (it's always had significant support for attri...
ThinkSheet
12/8/2009
Speaking of Tinderbox, it looks like the long-awaited Tinderbox 5 is finally nearing release. It'll be interesting to see if the Windows version finally sees the light of day (my guess is no).
-- Chr...
Why not just use Word's compound document features directly to accomplish this? When you switch into outline mode, there's a toolbar that lets you break out a file into multiple files, at least in Wor...
It's 'org-mode' by a huge margin. Geekiest in terms of breadth of features, architecture, programmability (not just scripting, but meta-programming of the system itself). If I was an Emacs person, thi...
Google Wave as a PIM?
10/24/2009
I still have a couple of invites. I can be contacted at lastname.firstname at X.com; where lastname is my last name and firstname is my first, and X is gmail.
Also, I think PPL's idea of a Wave thre...
Google Wave as a PIM?
10/22/2009
Is anyone else using Google Wave as a PIM? I've become increasingly excited about this. I really like the data model... the ability to work with discrete chunks (I know some people are using Outlook a...
Lots of great comments in this thread. I think it's important to distinguish usability from aesthetics, though the latter may have some influence on the former. DOS applications like GrandView had a Z...
If you're on Linux, you should definitely also try "org-mode". Single-pane, simple formatting (bold and italic, a few more, plus full formatting on export), hoisting, multiple columns (in subareas of ...
If you're on Linux, you should definitely also try "org-mode". Single-pane, simple formatting (bold and italic, a few more, plus full formatting on export), hoisting, multiple columns (in subareas of ...
Is there a page anywhere that describes the new features (and possibly includes screenshots)? e.g. What are the new "semantic features"? I couldn't find anything except a brief description and a crypt...