Re: The Bottom Line/TakeNote!

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-10-16 19:05:34

I’ll have to take another look at Miss Lonely Notes. My first quick impression was that I wasn’t overly impressed, that it didn’t seem to do much that I couldn’t do with an outliner.

The upgrade to MLN is now availale, version 1.1.

The outliner in MLN is rudimentary, but it would probably be pretty easy to use a more sophisticated outliner—ADM in particular comes to mind here—to accomplish the same operations. What’s not available in a standard outliner is the ability to manipulate text in a linear-spatial way. The programs that might allow something like that don’t make it easy to accomplish. This has a lot of appeal for many writers, as witness the popularity of Writers Blocks among professionals. All writers might not find this useful.

Based on the discussion here I bought ndxCards a week ago, but haven’t put it through its paces. It looks promising.

However, can say that neither of those two programs fill the niches of a writing and bibliography tool to the extent that TakeNote! does.

Is that because of essential features or because Take Note has more specialized bibliographic formats. I suspect ndxCards will be getting more.

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