David Garner

Octarine: free lightweight Markdown/Obsidian-like app for Mac 8/29/2024

Just for grins, I checked it out. Seems developer is now supporting Linux and intends to support Windows and mobile eventually. Has a nice Discord where developer was active when I joined and was ver...

Discourse map! 11/20/2022

@Lucas, thanks for the many program/tool mentions. Several I had not heard of before. At least a couple of them look very interesting to me.

Bangle.io 8/29/2022

Thanks a lot for sharing this. I've spent a lot of time browsing around on the related sites and it looks like it has a very bright future, if the developer continues as he has for a couple of years ...

Tangent- New WYSIWYG Markdown/Wikilinks notes app with map view, sliding panels (Mac/Win) 1/6/2022

Thanks for the pointer. Looks very interesting to me.

Planning & executing 8/9/2021

I have an engineering background, but was raised by a teacher populated family and neighborhood. I can't really relate to the publish or perish lifestyle. Further, I have not spent any time -doing- ...

List of some notable information management and thinking apps 3/2/2021

I can't recall if I've posted this information here before or not, I hope this is not too repetitive, if I have. There is a Discourse forum called "The Productivists" which covers similar topics as a...

ThinkingTools, softwares which helps in ThinkingProcess 2/17/2021

Hi Newbee, I am also interested in a list of ThinkingTools (software, which helps with the many aspects of the thinking process) and also PKM (Personal Knowledge Management), Information Storing Apps...

Please Tell Me the Alternative for TinderBox 1/17/2021

You meant not for Windows?

Zenreader - A new tool of reading and making notes on research for the Mac 12/4/2020

Thanks for sharing, looks interesting to me. This is also available for Windows. There's a free tier. I've signed up and downloaded it. Hoping to at least get some new ideas by poking around ...

Roam Patrol! 11/17/2020

I have not seen this mentioned here, but Dendron Notes https://www.dendron.so/ seems pretty interesting. Like several other projects, this builds on VSCode. That means that it's cross platform. I a...

Roam Patrol! 10/15/2020

Thanks for posting. Kokoro seems like another interesting project in this space.

macOS Checklist App 9/24/2020

Simon, I'm interested to learn more about your needs. I guess I should say that I don't know anything about Apple products, so I won't be able to help with that aspect. What you describe that you n...

Roam Patrol! 9/24/2020

I find this to be very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Journal 2.0 (different than “The Journal”) Wow! 8/21/2020

Supposedly released yesterday. I downloaded the Windows program (app). Help | Learn More takes me to https://blog.usejournal.com/get-started-with-journal-af0c4ebc5172 which is dated Oct 19, 2018. ...

Mining E-mail Newsletters for Interesting Topics 7/20/2020

I've subscribed to a lot of e-mail newsletters through the years. Recently, I've discovered a bunch of them have pointers to interesting projects on the web. Unfortunately, I am getting so many news...

Organizing Historical E-mail 7/20/2020

I'd also like to locate all the old e-mail from my pile of hard drives. I've used Outlook for a lot of years. Each time I got a new machine, I started over, but the historical e-mail is still on the...

Organizing Backup Files 7/20/2020

I have a few piles of hard drives from which I would like to retrieve files, which were on various machines, down through the years. Some of them were in the machines before I discarded them, some ar...

Organizing Bookmarks 7/19/2020

As I described above, I'm happy with using Chrome's bookmarking system as an intake mechanism. It seems quite flexible and powerful. On today's computers, it is very responsive and has had no proble...

Organizing Bookmarks 7/19/2020

Anyone remember when BrainSpace (brainspace.com) had a free discovery service? I never completely understood what it was or how it worked, but it did seem to find things which were of interest to me ...

Organizing Bookmarks 7/19/2020

I'm seeking tools and ideas about methodologies to capture and organize information. I'm interested in getting better at handling discovery of new projects/efforts/products/techniques. Obviously, "G...

"Roam Research" -- New web-based personal wiki 3/14/2020

This sounds interesting. Is it compatible with NoteSelf?

Research Assistant 3/14/2020

Anyone know if Research Assistant has disappeared, or just moved/changed in some way? Sounds interesting. Thanks. Wojciech wrote: I knew it had to happen! The same day I mentioned Research Assistan...

Enjoying reading forum 3/14/2020

Wow, Everything old is new again, and be careful what you ask for, you might get it! Thanks for all the replies and pointers. That's a lot to digest. I'm now thinking about how to organize all thi...

Enjoying reading forum 3/13/2020

I've been enjoying reading the posts here, for the last few weeks. I've learned about a lot of software that I had never heard about before. I'm pretty sure that I have been aware of this site, in y...

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