JohnK
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- October 2006
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- 1/28/2014
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Man in Search of a Method
4/11/2009
I did a bit more mindless Googling on plain text information dumps and came across CintaNotes (http://cintanotes.com/). New to me, and haven't seen it mentioned here before. Looks like an Evernote wan...
Man in Search of a Method
4/8/2009
True, The Journal is not plain text. It does RTF, but I'm not hard-core enough to hold that against any program (although I've never used the formatting options). I'm happy as long as I can easily exp...
Man in Search of a Method
4/7/2009
When I recently tried out a variety of plain-text tools for drafting long documents, I settled on The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/) mainly because of its flexible export features. Ignor...
Scrivener-like outliner for Windows?
3/24/2009
DaXiong wrote:
>I am still on my quest for the perfecct outliner (I know, doesn't exist cause I keep
>changing what I need). What I'd love is Scrivener, but for windows.
You and many, many others...
New developments with PageFour
3/10/2009
I like PageFour, and I have praised it before here and elsewhere.
However, after trying most of the available writing programs recently, I switched to The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/)...
Knowledge Workshop: Interesting product, but I'm reluctant even to give it a trial because the way they structure the editions is just plain annoying.
The free "personal" version is limited to 500 n...
AZZ Cardfile -- new release
1/2/2009
Version 4 finally adds a basic hierarchy ("grouping cards"). The author says v4 is a complete rewrite.
Other new features include -- XML file format; settings moved from the Registry to .ini files; s...
Wishing you Merry Christmas...
12/25/2008
I second that. Especially the "joyful and prosperous 2009" bit.
WhizFolders discount
12/24/2008
For anyone considering buying a WhizFolders licence, they're having a holiday sale -- 30% off both Pro and Deluxe versions.
http://whizfolders.com/
Another program like KeyNote
12/22/2008
And yet another...I haven't looked at this one for a while, but the open source program The Guide (http://theguide.sourceforge.net/) has reached v2.0. Straightforward offering with a limited feature s...
Another program like KeyNote
12/21/2008
I've been taking a look at Rightnote. Yes, looks like "Keynote 2008". It's promising.
Rightnote uses the increasingly popular TRichview editing controls (as used in MyInfo, AM-Notebook, The Journal e...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/17/2008
Although the arrival of Zoot6 may well throw everything up in the air again, I think I have settled on using The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/) for writing drafts of long-ish documents. ...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/15/2008
Francis Morrone wrote:
>JohnK - if I recall correctly KeyNote can be set up with virtual rtf nodes meaning that
>nothing is locked into a proprietary database.
You're absolutely right. And virtu...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/15/2008
Derek,
Thanks for your thoughts on Notetab Pro. I agree that Keynote remains a competitive program, despite the fact that the latest version was released in 2003. But I feel uneasy about putting cont...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/12/2008
Slight amendment to my post above. It's now a three-horse race. The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/index.php) is also a pretty good option for drafting long chunks of text, with a pleasant...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/12/2008
I've been looking at this area recently -- software to produce a first draft of longer pieces of fiction. A text editor with a few bells and whistles to help me organise my thoughts. No bloat allowed....
Netbooks - Hardware CRIMP?
12/6/2008
If you go down the netbook route, you do need to give it a serious test run. I considered buying one a few months ago. I didn't try every model on the market, but those I did try all has dreadful keyb...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Bob, I have a question
>regarding Page Four; is there any way to export one's work to another word processor in
>.doc, .rtf or any other format? From what I can see, the...
Zoot News
11/17/2008
As with quite a few members here, I imagine, I have spent too many years waiting for Zoot to fulfil its potential to dare to be hopeful.
Having said that, if Zoot 6 does have all those features, and ...
search for single repository
10/31/2008
I've worked my way along much the same path, using much the same group of programs, so I'll be fascinated to hear the responses and suggestions, although I'm not sure I can add much to the mix. I agre...
Wearing my journalist hat, I find that the key piece of software for me is the one I use for data gathering and retrieval. Finding the perfect 'data dump' has been a never-ending search. For pulling i...
Steve/MsJulie/David,
Thanks for the guidance on the database. More bedtime reading...
Thanks for your comments, Steve. I've been playing with The Journal today -- despite my addiction to writing software it's the first time I've tried The Journal. I'm impressed. As you say, lots of gre...
I seem to remember The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/) has one or two admirers here. Fifty per cent off at Bits du Jour on Friday.
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/the-journal/
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
6/30/2008
There's a fair amount of discussion about Celtx over on the software forum at Done Deal (screenwriting forums) if anyone is interested:
http://messageboard.donedealpro.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=21...