Christoph
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- Member since
- January 2008
- Topics started
- 5
- Total posts
- 67
- Last active
- 9/4/2025
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Is Toodledo dead?
4/2/2021
Talking about todo managers, here are three more recommendations.
*MyLifeOrganized* (MLO) is a very flexible and powerful application that is essentially based on an outline (arbitrarily deep tree) o...
O the Irony...
1/4/2021
Simon, yes, I see your point, but let me put some things into perspective.
The controversy between whether to use DOC or RTF was from before 2008, when Microsoft came up with the new, open DOCX forma...
Going to Attempt All-in with Dynalist
12/29/2020
Dr Andus wrote:
>My sense is (just from looking at the fresh faces on Youtube being
>excited about these) is that a new generation has just grown up who have
>discovered the specialist need for digita...
Going to Attempt All-in with Dynalist
12/29/2020
Drewster wrote:
As the originator of this thread, I thought it would be appropriate for
>me to share a post I wrote (using Dynalist - and therein lies a story)
Thanks for the write-up. I would agree ...
Going to Attempt All-in with Dynalist
12/28/2020
Christoph wrote:
>I believe your premise that everything is in essence an outline
>is wrong.
This article explains it very well. Networks (graphs) are more than just trees (outlines):
https://medium...
Going to Attempt All-in with Dynalist
12/28/2020
Drewster wrote:
>So if everything at its essence is an outline, why not use an outliner?
Yes, but I believe your premise that everything is in essence an outline is wrong. Take a hen and and egg. Wha...
Going to Attempt All-in with Dynalist
12/27/2020
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Have you looked at Obsidian at all?
Note that Obsidian is from the same authors as Dynalist. But both are different, Obsidian is not a traditional outliner.
https://blog.dynalis...
The demise of native coded apps
12/19/2020
Andy Brice wrote:
>I tried Javascript, but was horrified by the messy scoping and type
>rules. Ugh. But I hear Typescript is much better. Does it still have
>object-based (rather than class-based) inh...
The demise of native coded apps
12/18/2020
Great article. This quote sums it up very well:
> People will say “But there’s WxWidgets, but there’s GTK, but there’s Qt” as if someone is looking for ice cream and eve...
The Benefit of Nested Tags
12/18/2020
For me, the less rigid structure is what makes Obsidian so attractive. It is not strictly neccessary that everything is connected via links and tags, you can find content easily even without that usin...
The Benefit of Nested Tags
12/17/2020
Why do the tags need to be nested? For me it suffices if I can combine tags in a search.
E.g. in Obsidian, you can search for "tag:productivity tag:#pdf" to find all notes tagged with both tags, or y...
The demise of native coded apps
12/6/2020
There are many reasons why people stick to Windows instead of switching to Linux. For instance, you may have an important device where the driver is only available for Windows, or you are into gaming,...
The demise of native coded apps
12/6/2020
Somewhere a "would explode" is missing.
The demise of native coded apps
12/6/2020
Simon - ok I'll bite.
The problem with OS specific coded apps is that you end up in the walled garden of your Apple word, and you can never leave it because your most important apps only run on MacOs...
@jaslar rRght, the decreasing memory half-value time comes on top of that. That's why I need to write down more. But maybe again, this also creates a vicious circle because now I feel I don't need to ...
I'm using paper for scribbling, writing down phone notes and my current top to do's for the day. Therefore I have always a piece of paper and a pencil on my desk. But everything that I want to be arch...
Evernote reinventing itself
11/10/2020
Simon wrote:
>Firstly, I cannot stand electron apps. I'm a keyboard user and often
>simple shortcuts just don't work. Secondly, with only 500 notes every
>time I click on a notebook it take a few seco...
Simplenote now has Internal Links
11/4/2020
jaslar wrote:
Thanks. It's pretty easy on the Android and Linux platforms I tested.
>Wonder how long it will take before we see links FROM other notes
>(Roam). I'm finding that Simplenote has been a v...
Enjoying reading forum
10/31/2020
Chris Murtland wrote:
>Yeah, I was kind of thinking one could edit one's posts within some time
>limit - basically allowing one to fix obvious mistakes or to add detail
>or clarification shortly afte...
Enjoying reading forum
10/31/2020
MenAgerie wrote:
>I am happy to go with the conservative view emerging here, but I would
>love the ability to 'filter out' posts about mac software, somehow. I
>have gotten excited about new software,...
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Christoph, for me part of the charm is that this interface has become
>comfortable over the years. While other software might be more
>sophisticated, it might not be more user-fr...
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Chris, that sounds all good and I must admit that it might be actually the right approach for this forum. Switching to Discourse or other standard software, although it would be more sophisticated and...
Enjoying reading forum
10/30/2020
Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>If I remember correctly, Obsidian started just with Discord, and then
>introduced a Discourse forum. Do you have any thoughts on how adding
>Discourse to Discord worked for t...
Enjoying reading forum
10/29/2020
tightbeam wrote:
>I also agree with Dr. Andus. I like the simplicity of the forum. It
>might *look* dated, but it provides everything necessary for cordial
>conversation without the clutter common to ...
Enjoying reading forum
10/29/2020
Dr Andus wrote:
>I would respectfully disagree with the suggestions to move this forum to
>some other platform or even with the need for any major changes or new
>features.
Thanks for your feedback.
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