Chris Thompson
Founding Member
Veteran
Century Club
Conversation Starter
- Member since
- June 2006
- Topics started
- 22
- Total posts
- 265
- Last active
- 2/13/2026
Posts
I'm curious if anyone here was one of the few thousand who got invited to the OneNote Live beta today? Any feedback on it? Specifically, how good is the implementation on non-Windows Mobile smartphone...
You're right... I'm not sure how I forgot about hoisting. It is absolutely necessary for serious outlining (I use it all the time in OmniOutliner), and GV did have it. (Though Ecco would be able to si...
You can run Grandview and PCoutline in your favorite DOS emulator or virtual machine. Someone in this thread already posted a link to how to do this for Grandview. If you hunt around online, you can f...
Outline with rows and columns?
8/6/2009
If you're on Windows, I'd suggest using OneNote. You'll need a one-row table per paragraph if you want to keep collapsing and expanding items, but in OneNote that's easy enough... just pressing tab af...
It sounds like you're the perfect candidate for "org-mode". It meets most of your requirements, stays plain text, and does quite a bit more:
http://orgmode.org/
The learning curve is moderately high,...
The two main missing features I was referring to were full tagging (right now it supports tagging in the same way DT 1.0 did) and the sorter (which is not really part of core DevonThink). Global searc...
It's unclear when it will be out of beta... my guess is another six months. But it's usable now (and has been usable for quite a while; two features are not yet implemented however). One of the major ...
The Economics of PIMs
6/3/2009
This is a great thread. Personally, I'm not comfortable paying annually for software because it reduces the incentive for the developer to improve it. (I think Word is a false example... the problem I...
iPod Touch
4/14/2009
If you're into outlining or mind-mapping, check out Headspace:
http://www.flatblackfilms.com/iphone/Headspace/Headspace.html
It's a little bizarre and over-the-top 3D, but it's quite an impressive ap...
Web Outliner?
3/31/2009
If you're running Linux and not averse to text-only programs like Lotus Agenda, you should seriously give Emacs org-mode a try. Virtually everything in Ecco is in there, and a lot, LOT more. Plus it...
LyX for Windows
3/30/2009
The download site is hosted on an FTP server. You may have a firewall that blocks active FTP. You can get the same files on this HTTP mirror:
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/bin/1.6.2/
-- C...
Scrivener-like outliner for Windows?
3/24/2009
Extending LyX is a nice idea, but I'm not sure why he doesn't just use LaTeX markup for crossreferences, styles, etc. directly in Scrivener? (Footnotes and marginalia are natively supported in Scriven...
New developments with PageFour
3/11/2009
Just worth mentioning... Scrivener 1.5 was released 10 days ago. If anyone's checked it out before, there are some nice new features in this new release that are worth checking out.
-- Chris
Tinderbox 4.6
3/9/2009
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>linking information doesn't seem as fast and painless as in a personal wiki. In fact,
>it seems to me that one way Tbx could be vastly improved is to implement a wiki linking
>...
Tinderbox 4.6
3/6/2009
I think a great program could be built along the lines of Tinderbox, but Tinderbox itself isn't it. Everything is kind of a half effort, e.g. there is a powerful attribute mechanism, but you can't dis...
Keep us posted on what iPod Touch / iPhone applications you find useful. There's pretty good coverage of task management apps online (OmniFocus, Things, etc.) but not as much coverage of calendaring s...
Weird new Mac outliner: Tree
2/17/2009
There's a new Japanese outliner out:
http://www.topoftree.jp/en/tree/
It's based on the idea that you should be able to expand/collapse parts of the outline both in the traditional way (vertically) *...
Against Everything Buckets
2/11/2009
The tags are stored in a "Tags.wft" file in the program's directory. Not really a clean solution.
-- Chris
quant wrote:
>but the tags does not seem to be stored in the files ... are they?
>
>Alexand...
Against Everything Buckets
2/10/2009
Many of his arguments are off the mark.
I do agree that proprietary database "everything buckets" are probably not a good idea -- we've seen enough PIMs die that this argument makes sense. However, ...
DevonThink 2.0 beta 2 is out
2/6/2009
Just a heads-up for people who are following DT, they've pushed out another beta of version 2. I've spent some time with it and it's completely usable. The interface remains fairly advanced, especiall...
I think most outliners and task-management systems that have column support also support sorting by column and flattening... it's hard to think of ones that don't. One feature that isn't nearly as uni...
Firefox 3.05 and .mht files - HELP!
1/23/2009
There are two plugins for Firefox that let you open MHT files: UnMHT and MAF. I'm not sure which one is better or more current.
-- Chris
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
Emacs is a text editing program with a very long history (26+ years of development I think). It's most popular on Unix computers but is available for virtually any platform. The distinctive thing abou...
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
The Mac environment is still going strong. OmniFocus 2.0 is in development, OmniOutliner 4.0 is (finally) in development. The Hit List was just released. Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 was just released t...
Evernote Development
1/19/2009
Surfulator desperately needs a new web site. It has only one screenshot, and I wouldn't have known it had features like tagging if I wasn't reading posts on this forum.
I agree about the risks of sof...