David Dunham
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- 4/22/2012
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VoodooPad 5 released
4/22/2012
I haven?t tried Dropbox in a purely-LAN situation, but they do support LAN sync as an optimization.
Single-pane outliners
3/17/2011
Opal is for Mac OS X; any topic can contain styled text & graphics. It can also export to RTF ? presumably one of those is what you meant.
(And any member of this forum can get a discount by contacti...
More Sales
8/23/2010
http://www.iappsforstudents.com/ includes my Opal outliner for 20% off, but also lots of other organizational tools for Mac. (The sale also covers iPhone, though I'm less familiar with what's on sale ...
Back to Mac
8/6/2010
Sounds like you may be after a complex application, but if all you want is outlining, check out Opal. (And any member of this forum can contact me for a discount.)
So, what do you folks do?
5/2/2010
Software designer -- I created Opal. Which I use to keep track of all my projects.
Software Feature Matrix
4/24/2010
Be sure to include the number of panes, OS (Mac OS X, Windows, etc.). You could also mention sorting, magnification (of the window), multiple selection, and localization (e.g. is there a Japanese vers...
iCRIMP
1/30/2010
Franz Grieser wrote:
>I don't expect to see iPad editions of Curio, Tinderbox, Scrivener, et.al. in
>the next few months: Keith Blount, the developer of Scrivener, said that he would have
>to write...
Jack Crawford wrote:
>Maxthink is in a world of its own ... somewhere in the
>stratosphere.
Wow.
Instead of showing how long since your last save, why not have autosave? (OK, he didn't use Cocoa s...
VMware Fusion on sale...
9/18/2009
I think last time I posted I didn't have it. I now do. It works fine under Snow Leopard for my needs, which include DirectX 9 support.
Carrot wrote:
>We don't really
>have a very strong commercial/ profit motive in making this software- we want to make a
>full featured open-source note-taker for Linux (as our main goal but also
>...
Mac Oultiners
8/31/2009
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>And then there's the hardware: Desktop or laptop?
I'm typing this on a MacBook Air, with a Dell portrait display attached.
>Vanilla plastic MacBook or MacBook Pro?
For what i...
VMWare Fusion on Bits Todau
8/31/2009
No personal experience (I've used Parallels for the same thing), but one of my developers does use and like it. I'm confident it works as advertised.
Incremental Find ?
7/15/2009
jimspoon wrote:
>Has anybody seen a PIM
>that makes good use of incremental find?
It might not be a PIM (does one need multiple columns to qualify?), but Opal certainly has incremental find I've al...
Derek Peschel wrote:
>But consider a specific situation. ... I can't see how that specific
>operation can ever be unsafe. Forward delete at the beginning of the document is
>generally unsafe, th...
Derek Peschel wrote:
>I may have been thinking of another program when I
>mentioned modes, but Opal does make a distinction between selecting an entire topic
>and selecting the entire contents of a...
> ??no ?arrange? vs. ?edit? modes as many one-pane outliners (like Opal) have
I don't understand what you mean by this -- IMO Opal has no modes at all. You are always free to arrange (by dragging or ...
Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Opal, frex, is Spotlight searchable, so you can search multiple documents that way. Its filtering searches within a single file, showing you all relevant topic...
The Economics of PIMs
6/3/2009
>8) Software subscription models also seem
>to be an option, as they provide a comparatively steady revenue stream, and
>incentivize the developer to continue to make improvements
The possible do...
On the Mac, Opal imports and exports OPML as well.
It's not a perfect format though -- it doesn't really support rich text.
Against Everything Buckets
2/10/2009
Interesting post here http://al3x.net/2009/01/31/against-everything-buckets.html that I suspect many of the people here won't agree with (I certainly use Opal for as much as I can, but it's not intend...
IMO the headline is a little extreme -- it's not shuttered at all: "we'll continue to maintain service for those of you who've already signed up."
Still, it's definitely a wake-up call for cloudies.
...
ndodge wrote:
>So, my end question is, wondering if there are other tools out there as
>alternatives ? Something like MS Word tables that allow for show/hide, or something
>like Excel where format...
Jack Crawford wrote:
>I would still love a reliable one-panel outliner that
>exports directly to Word.
If you're using Mac OS X, Opal does this (see the bottom of http://a-sharp.com/opal/screens....
Ultra Recall is DEAD!
10/31/2008
I would have to agree that "not actively enhanced" is not the same as "dead." It's not like your copy of UltraRecall suddenly stopped working. It might be a bad purchase decision now, but this doesn't...
Webspiration from Inspiration
9/20/2008
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I join
>you in stressing to any developers who read this site to note how important a hoist
>mechanism is to people who work with outlines a lot.
Hmm, I work with outlines a...