Manfred
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- 9/2/2010
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Playing with GrandView
9/16/2009
Wouldn't it be better to run Grandview under a DOS emulator, like DOSBox? See http://www.dosbox.com/
If memory does not deceive me, I did this a few years ago.
Manfred
VMWare Fusion on Bits Todau
9/1/2009
Yes, I was trying to use it as a central repository for all my information?the way I use ConnectedText. On the positive side: Everything that I exported from ConnectedText, imported correctly into Dev...
VMWare Fusion on Bits Todau
9/1/2009
Alas, running OS X on a PC is very difficult, and, believe it or not, illegal (at least, if you believe Apple). Apple is very restrictive about the hardware on which their OS runs. It has to be a Mac....
Summer 2009 PIM roll-call
7/29/2009
Todo: ConnectedText
Email: Thunderbird
Calendar: ConnectedText
Notes, Research, web clippings, and first drafts: ConnectedText
Writing (final drafts): Atlantis Word Processor
Manfred
What's new in OneNote
7/22/2009
Hi,
I understand ... you can minimize it ... as I said it's about a year and a half ago I used it.
Still, you cannot get rid of it. It's just minimized. Whenever you want to invoke a seldom used com...
What's new in OneNote
7/22/2009
Hi Steve,
sorry, but I was away from my computer(s). Others explained it well.
It's like having every menu item always visible with an icon (seven or eight rows) - it makes me dizzy, and I find it e...
What's new in OneNote
7/22/2009
From the Website:
"OneNote now has the Ribbon. We?ve designed this to optimize for the key OneNote scenarios and make them easier to use. This is also what enables us to more easily add features like ...
PIM with visualization
7/16/2009
ConnectedText already allows you to see its contents in the Navigator as a visual representation, sort of like the Brain. You can navigate to any topic or node from any other node, and when you click ...
The Economics of PIMs
6/4/2009
I also agree with Steve Zeoli that you will always have to think about how to move your stuff from the application you use now to the one you will be using in a few years. Even if your hope is that th...
Manfred's blog
4/16/2009
Stephen and Alexander,
thank you very much for pointing this out. You are too kind, however.
Any comments are welcome, of course.
Manfred
askSam 7 Professional on Bits du Jour
4/15/2009
A personal wiki like ConnectedText is a much better (and much more frugal) alternative to AskSam as well.
I tried AskSam years ago, and abanoned it because it was so unreliable then. It seems that n...
askSam 7 Professional on Bits du Jour
4/14/2009
InfoSelect 1 for Windows was also quick and well-suited for the task of keeping notes. I still have a version on a Memory Stick (mainly for sentimental reasons). (I liked the way the scraps re-arrange...
But you should know that these are the requirements for Personal Project Planner:
Before you begin the download, please be sure your computer meets the following requirements:
- WindowsXP/Vista
- ...
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
Steve,
thanks for acknowledging, and letting me taking it in the way it was intended.
Best,
Manfred
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Yes, Connected Text is a fine program, but development on it hasn?t exactly progressed at a rapid pace in the past two years.
Well, I would beg to differ. Since January of 2007...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
1/4/2009
Stephen,
yes, you are right that Voodoopad behaves more like a word processor. This has to do in part with relative ease with which rich text can be implemented on the Mac.
CT (and other wikis) beh...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
1/3/2009
You might also look at http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/2567
Manfred
Wiki for Fiction Writing
1/3/2009
I agree that there is no real alternative to Scrivener on the PC. But there is more than real competition to Voodoopad on the PC, namely ConnectedText, which is much more capable than Voodoopad. The s...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/16/2008
Well, as I said, it's MY limitation, but during the early days of KeyNote I was still using Ecco, a one-pane outliner with MUCH more powerful search capabilities. I still would prefer Ecco as an outli...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/16/2008
not "footnote" but "Keynote"
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/16/2008
I have never quite understood the fascination with footnote, but not for want of trying.
Those who are fascinated by it might profit from the fork that is being actively developed. They might want to...
The software I use for "information processing" broadly conceived:
Everyday (absolutely rely on):
ConnectedText (for notes and "zero drafts")
AutoHotKey (for automation)
Firefox (Internet)
...
Their Website:
"Jourknow is currently undergoing rapid development, and as such no stable releases exist yet. Development code is available upon request."
Manfred
Opinions On TheBrain?
6/26/2008
Thanks! As I suggested, there is a large overlap in functionality between these programs, and in the end it comes down to (often) very subjective preferences. Nothing wrong with those either!
Opinions On TheBrain?
6/26/2008
Hugh,
actually, I was not so much thinking of traditional outliners as an alternative, but of other hypertext applications that implement links more easily, like personal wikis: Voodoopad, Zulupad, ...