Hugh Pile
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Top Developments in 2007
12/27/2007
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I am wondering what this group thinks of as the top developments in the PIM/outliner
>world during the past 12 months. For me, two things stand out:
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>1. OneNote 2007 became ...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
12/9/2007
Chris Thompson wrote: "The Mac community does tend to move en-masse to new operating systems quickly..." A second reason for this (in addition to OS speed) must be price:
- Windows Vista Home Premium...
And for notes, you could always use PocketThinker Desktop (which again uses Outlook as a hub, but allows outlining of notes): http://www.pocketthinker.com/products.html
Or of course, with much more f...
I agree with the suggestion to use Outlook as a basis. Big and bloated though it is, Outlook successfully conceals a lot of function in the bloat. I also agree it's biggest lack is a task outliner. (D...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/24/2007
Meant "... two or more... ".
Of course. : - )
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/24/2007
Did you see these threads on the Scrivener forum, Matty? They were kicked off by historians:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1795&highlight=historian
http://www.literatureand...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/24/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
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>Hugh Pile wrote:
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>>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...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/23/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>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
>...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/21/2007
I agree.
Buy a Mac, Matty. You won't regret it. I haven't.
'Flying Logic' versus 'Rationale'
11/16/2007
Stephen
I've used Flying Logic. I haven't used Rationale, but I've scanned its website and watched its video.
I won't comment on the names!
They have different pricing models; for the outliner/mind...
A New Tool
10/24/2007
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
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>Hugh Pile wrote:
>>I'd forgotten Rationale and had assumed that Flying Logic was
>more or less out on its
>>own.
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>>FL appears to score in at least two ways. It adds
>...
A New Tool
10/24/2007
I'd forgotten Rationale and had assumed that Flying Logic was more or less out on its own.
FL appears to score in at least two ways. It adds logical and arithmetic operators to its maps, so that prop...
A New Tool
10/24/2007
http://flyinglogic.com/
Best software for emergent order
10/8/2007
Bernhard wrote:
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>Please, would you like to tell more about the
>"James Fallows template" and where to find it
>or give some links for further
>reading?
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>Thnak you very much in advance!
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Best software for emergent order
10/7/2007
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Like Stephen Zeoli, I can't think of anything better than Zoot.
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>Zoot can act as a
>general repository, and its items can immediately or later be classified into broad
>su...
Timeto PIM
9/25/2007
Yes, I did, a while ago.
It may be useful to you if you buy into its philosophy.
Which means:
- allowing the software to timetable the "soft-landscaped" parts of your working day i.e. those that don...
Best writing software...
9/25/2007
New Novelist
WritePro
WriteWay Pro
WriteItNow
StoryView
WritersCafe/StoryLines
PowerStructure and PowerWriter
Save The Cat
yWriter
yWriter is probably the most competent. Some of the rest may be defu...
Zoot Grows on You
9/5/2007
jimspoon wrote:
>Well, you piqued my interest enough - I downloaded Zoot for the first time in years.
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>I
>am glad to see there is a proper help file now. (Don't know how good it is, though). Wh...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
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>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>>The "correct" answer was ndx Cards.
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>Stephen,
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>I
>think you're right that ndxCards might be the closes thing to the Holy Grail -- that is,...
HGs: NoteMap (or possibly Brainstorm) under Windows, and Tinderbox (or OmniOutliner Pro or Opal) on the Mac.
(That is, the HGs of outliners as outliners, as opposed to HGs of outliners as components ...
Jim,
Two small Mac programmes worth investigating: Sidenote, http://www.chatelp.org/?page_id=5, a simple pop-out note-taker, and Skim, http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ , a PDF reader and annotator. B...
Hugh Pile wrote:
>My workflow is Devonthink
>Pro>Curio>Scrivener>MSWord. I also use Yojimbo for simpler storage. I may drop
>DevonThink if I find Scrivener or Curio can contain all my research, ...
Jim wrote:
>I was about to ask about
>Notetaker and Hog Bay Notebook(Now called Mori and available from Apokalypse
>software http://apokalypsesoftware.com/products/mori)
Welcome back to the Mac ...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Enlightening summary. Where would you locate NoteTaker and Circus Ponies NoteBook
>in the Mac spectrum?
Stephen, if you mean what I wrote above, thanks.
I've never ins...
Jim
As a postscript to the above, you could as you say use Parallels to have the best of both worlds. That's what I would do if I was in the market for a powerful desktop or laptop today; I'd buy an ...