jimspoon
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regular expressions tutorial
9/11/2014
Slartibartfarst wrote:
Thanks Jim - the Regex tutorial will come in handy for me, as a revision
>tool.
>On your moving all your journal entries into Excel, I have to ask,
>"Why?"
Primarily for purpos...
Just a heads up - Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 is on sale today at BitsDuJour for $9.95, which is 1/2 the normal price.
Typically when you're migrating from an HDD to an SSD, you're moving from a la...
regular expressions tutorial
9/10/2014
I've been consolidating my journal entries into a single Excel spreadsheet, and now I have well over 100,000 entries going back to 2002. Each journal entry begins with a timestamp in the format - "20...
hddb file search (windows)
9/10/2014
I've relied on Voidtools Everything for a very long time, but I thought I'd mention "hddb" file search. It is in continuous and rapid development and is now up to version 3.04. It's come a long way ...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
I posted this link without having read it - but I read the article and comments last night. I thought it was very interesting!
DrAndus - as I read the article I was wondering how well ConnectedText ...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/5/2014
http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-knowledgebase/
Narrate
8/29/2014
Narrate Makes Note Taking Efficient and Beautiful - http://bit.ly/1vUyrGU
a list of writing tools
8/18/2014
stumbled across this list of writing tools - may be of interest to some.
http://bleedforyourtypewriter.tumblr.com/post/94170472859/ok-here-is-a-compilation-of-all-the-software-and
I think my only active ifttt recipe right now is that whenever I save an article in Feedly, it gets put into Evernote. Very handy.
I need to investigate other available ifttt channels and recipes.
...
scrivener - lifehacker article
7/4/2014
http://lifehacker.com/how-scrivener-helped-me-organize-all-my-writing-1599446028
might be of interest to some people here.
infoqube - a review
6/30/2014
http://www.itnews.com/software/80789/infoqube-review-intricate-information-manager-has-steep-learning-curve
http://lifehacker.com/notation-is-a-shortcut-packed-notational-velocity-clone-1591783047
http://getnotation.com/
His name is T. V. Raman and here he is! Wow!
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/
I know, that blew me away too!
I'd always dismissed org-mode as an outlining option for myself, thinking it would be too arcane, too many keystrokes to memorize, too foreign, too nerdy, too much of a learning curve, etc. But favor...
I'd like to be able to save all clipped texts to a file for later import or psting into an outliner of some sort.
Each clip would have the following essential items of info: date and time when clippe...
how best to save web pages
6/3/2014
The MHT file created by Chrome does contain the original URL, and you can readily see it when you view the file in a text editor. But "View Source" in the browser does not display the contents of the...
how best to save web pages
6/3/2014
Hi Mark - it was driving me nuts. I couldn't find the URL of the saved MHT file when I clicked on "View Source" in the browser, but when I dragged the same file to an editor, it was right there. For...
how best to save web pages
6/2/2014
Probably very old news to many of you, but I've made a nice discovery today for saving webpages from Chrome - it works like this:
(1) install the Readability extension for Chrome.
(2) click on the Re...
Brain Attic
5/28/2014
a post in the "scheduling" thread made me think of Sherlock Holmes' Brain Attic. I imagine almost everybody here knows about it already, but just in case, here is the relevant passage from "A Study i...
nothing further.
bullet journal
5/23/2014
might be of interest to some here.
http://www.bulletjournal.com
Bullet Journal
"For the list-makers, the note-takers, the Post-It note pilots, the track-keepers, and the dabbling doodlers. Bullet jo...
somcloud
5/23/2014
just a new one I ran across tonight.
store notes, todos in the cloud. can attach files to notes.
http://somcloud.com/
review - http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/22/webware/somcloud-note-taking.htm...
An in-depth RightNote app-praisal
5/17/2014
Thanks for this very interesting post. I will take another look at Rightnote.
Tagging files
5/12/2014
i was looking at the discussion about tagspaces - it seems that the tags are added as part of the filename of the tagged files, and this was a deal breaker for some.