Paul Korm
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Preferred data/attributes in OPML files
4/16/2024
Robin, OPML is the most non-standard standard around. For interoperability, which I looks like you're going for, I suggest starting with sticking close to Dave Winer's original spec:
http://opml.or...
Splitting Items
4/10/2024
Maurice, actually Zavala on macOS uses shift-option-return for Split, not shift-cmd-return. And works nicely.
Split, moving the split text to a new row, using the same keyboard shortcut as Zavala (...
LiquidText is very nice on devices with input devices like Pencil or the like. On keyboard-only devices it's a PITA. It's also become pricey -- $175/year for a subscription. The subscription isn'...
Roam Research Status?
3/23/2024
Not much value in being a Believer these days.
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/16/2023
Satis wrote
>Upgrade price is $44.99
Interesting. In my instance of Mellel 5 the price is shown as $49.95 -- probably some A/B testing of price sensitivity. Doesn't matter. I like Mellel, and as...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/15/2023
$49.95 upgrade. Seems steep, especially since very good free options exist.
iA physical (paper) notebook
12/8/2023
Interesting move out of the virtual world, deep into the past.
Southbeach Modeler v4
12/5/2023
After what seems like a very long time, Southbeach Modeller (sic) has a new release -- version 4. Notes here:
http://southbeachinc.com/
Windows-only, Southbeach is a sort of "Tinderbox for Windows...
Sam Altman unexpectedly has lots of free time. Maybe he would help out.
A critique of tagging
11/7/2023
The developer of DEVONthink is fond of telling users "tags are groups" (i.e., folders). In most implementations of tags, they really are.
A critique of tagging
11/5/2023
I think a number of the tools-for-thought / productivity gurus have been around long enough that their game of changing their advice, or repackaging it under new names and new courses, has gone well p...
1 Diagramming software like Scapple, but with notes connectable to multiple parts of the map?
11/5/2023
I often create these sorts of documents. Usually I see them called "concept maps", but other terminology pops up. I can think of several applications that will do this for you, including:
1. Curi...
Another fan of the local graph, here. I've recently hyped the local graph's value by including in my daily note template links to the notes for "this day a year ago" and "this day two years ago". By...
I enjoy the spark of a new idea or insight. It happens a lot. But, not because of any computer or software. It's reading, talking to interesting people, day dreaming, and taking long walks that wo...
Bike is now on Setapp
10/26/2023
A Setapp subscription on macOS now includes Bike. Nice.
Yes, for me, and I think also for others.
Barrage wrote:
There seem to be a few apps going by the name Curio these days...is
>Curio by Zengobi the one of which you speak?
I'm afraid my toys would be saddened if I picked just one as the fun one. So there's three that I play with even when I have nothing important to do: Curio, Obsidian and TheBrain.
Curio, because ...
Yesterday I asked Bard for a photo of upper 5th Avenue (NY) as it was in 1920. It replied "Here's a photo of upper 5th Avenue in 1920". It was a photo of Pasadena from this summer.
Google Lens is ...
TheBrain has release the first beta (better to call it "pre-alpha" IMO) of TheBrain 14.
https://thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain14
It's very very buggy. The company has gone all-in on the O...
Useful outliner search/query examples
9/20/2023
Features I find very useful
* Regular expression searching
* Type-to-replace highlighted search results (useful in conjunction with regex-based search)
* Search and replace across multiple documents
Escape's developers did a good job of making their app look like MindNode.
My enjoyment of Tana is increasing as its feature set expands and matures. Looks like there will be a broader public release later this year. Although, it's easy to get access to Tana now -- just ...
Another one goes subscription
9/2/2023
There was (and still is) an app called NoteTaker that was contemporaneous with Circus Ponies. I'm not sure which came first, but NoteTaker 4 is still around on macOS.
https://www.aquaminds.com
Then...
Another one goes subscription
8/31/2023
I own more software than a sane person ought, and over the last 40 years I recall only one case where software stopped working because the developer went out of business -- Circus Ponies Notebook. Th...
Neil Larson / MaxThink
8/28/2023
Not a dedicated article, but he is mentioned in "History of the web browser"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I am surprised that there is no wikipedi...