Stephen R. Diamond

Top Developments in 2007 12/31/2007

DEwards (the opposite of rewards), for anti-user business practices, go to: DIShonorable mention: UltraRecall, for limiting existing databases in a trial version--which recodes the database--to 1,000...

Top Developments in 2007 12/31/2007

I left out BrainStorm in the honorable mentions, for an upgrade including bin sort.

Top Developments in 2007 12/31/2007

2007 was a slow year, which I attribute to developers devoting effort to making their applications Vista-compatible. Honorable mentions, in no particular order, reflecting substantial incremental upgr...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/20/2007

That's what I was getting at. My guess is he tiles several windows on a small screen, and that he means 'windows' for 'screen.' He's right. This should be customisable, and customisability is Inspirat...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/20/2007

If you have or would write a clear and complete description of the bug, I'll see if I can get an answer from them. For myself, I have never been able to get a good one-click conversion to Word from _a...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/15/2007

Am I imagining it, or do posts continually disappear and reappear in this thread?

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/13/2007

So the MS programs were written in Cocoa? Or is it Carbon? (Can never keep them straight.) They look the low road to conversion? David Dunham wrote: >Stephen R. Diamond wrote: > >>>This is not true. ...

MaxThink 12/13/2007

Never having used DOS, I am speaking here very provisionally. It seems to me that when a developer ported a DOS program to Windows, the developer must have reconceptualized the program for the new env...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/13/2007

Indents don't appear to be editable. It looks to me that Inspiration indents 4 spaces of each level. What size indent do you get? Would you actually want less than 4? Five levels seems to leave plenty...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/13/2007

I think your prognoses about NoteMap's demise are dead wrong. It simply would make no sense to build more links to NoteMap into the CaseSoft Division's mainstay product, CaseMap, if they intended to p...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Chris Thompson wrote: >Stephen R. Diamond wrote: >>On the Mac >>OS 9 nothing that was being made for OSX ran on >9. > >This is not true. Apple came out with a compatibility toolbox so developers...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Graham Smith wrote: > > >Stephen R. Diamond wrote: >>But the Windows programs _were_ >>available in an >appropriate version that you could generally get at upgrade prices. >>It appears to >be a ...

Single-pan Outliner for Writers 12/9/2007

Could you clarify what you mean with regard to Inspiration lacking formatting capability, as the user can set formats for levels and apply formatting directly to text elements?

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Matty wrote: >As for Maxthink... you >can put me in the column of people who just don't get it. For whatever reason I can't get >my head around the two-pane interface. For the kind of work it doe...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 12/9/2007

Graham Smith wrote: > >>speculation as to why programming on the Mac seems more fertile than on Windows. >Apple >>has never had any concern with backward compatibility. Mac OS X left OS 9 >program...

MaxThink 12/7/2007

I have to comment on my only disagreement with Guido in this thread. Does the magical number 7 vitiate mindmaps. Answering this question points to where mindmapping is useful. When you have arrived a...

Undo in MaxThink - a workaround 12/1/2007

ADM didn't have the timestamped backups. I haven't used MaxThink on a serious project yet, and haven't been concerned with undo. I consider MaxThink hard to learn as programs go these days, and I don'...

Undo in MaxThink - a workaround 11/30/2007

There is a partial workaround to the lack of undue in Maxthink. Maxthink can save an indefinite number of time-stamped backup files. This essentially provides all the power of unlimited undo, but lack...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/24/2007

Hugh Pile wrote: > > > >In my experience, Ecco and Zoot are as close to unique as you can get; >only Tinderbox on the Mac comes anywhere near as a "text-sippet manipulator/notes >outliner", and of...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/23/2007

NoteMap hasn't ceased active development. Recently in fact there was an upgrade, although the changes were substantially cosmetic,bu inclded stronger ties to the litigation products, which includes a ...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/23/2007

Stephen R. Diamond wrote: >Nobody answers that Scrivener is good, but ignores the other >side of the equation. Are BrainStorm and Zoot more or less valuable than DevonThink >and Scrivener? shoul...

Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac 11/22/2007

Ask a question like that and you're bound to get encouragement to switch. Microsoft is the monopolist. Nobody has a great interest in its defense. Your sample is also biased, because those who have al...

Aibase 11/18/2007

Have you compared aibase to Axon Idea Processor (http://web.singnet.com.sg/~axon2000/), a somewhat similar program? Guido wrote: >I would like to point out another very efficient outlining tool >: ...

MaxThink 11/18/2007

Franz Grieser wrote: >>I saw all of the positive reviews about MaxThink on the MaxThink website so I gave > >>MaxThink a try last night. I wasn’t impressed. I prefer NoteMap. > >I think the >rev...

defense of Maxthink 11/17/2007

I'm very impressed with MaxThink too. I'm also a lawyer. Maybe it's a lawyer's program. First, MaxThink has obviously been developed from a theory of how to do outlining. It helps that I think it is...

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