Nimbus Notes

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 26, 2014 at 07:36 PM

Bill, I definitely want to learn more about Morriss out of personal interest.

I didn’t realize he was disorganized and messy. Sounds frighteningly like myself. Part of my interest is learning how such folk prevailed in days gone by, before the technology. Sometimes I think a problem some of us have today is obsessing over how to use the technology and figuring out which is the best way.

As you note, the answer for Morriss was in part getting a good assistant.

I’m sorry to hear about OneNote limitation you’re up against.

MyInfo does offer columns, idea for defining your own metadata, and having comments.

It also offers hoisting, which is handy.

Daly
WSP wrote:

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>Daly de Gagne wrote:
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>>BTW any info on Morris’s writing study habits etc? I am always
>>interested in how 19th century & early 20th century writers wrote
>before
>>onslaught of subsequent technology. :)
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>Daly, I have always been interested mainly in Morris’s activities as a
>printer rather than in his purely literary work, but I have spent quite
>a bit of time going through his papers at the British Library and
>elsewhere. Morris was a bundle of energy and accomplished a great deal
>in his life, but I sense that he was also extremely messy and
>disorganized. Fortunately, in his later years he had Sydney Cockerell
>working for him as a secretary, and Cockerell was meticulous beyond
>belief. Cockerell’s usual technique was to bind miscellaneous documents
>together in notebooks and then write a careful table of contents on a
>flyleaf in his small, precise handwriting.
> >By the way, a small update: it appears that OneNote can’t really handle
>a database of 2,000 items. It has been collapsing repeatedly the past
>few days. So for the catalogue of Morris’s library I am now thinking of
>turning once again to MyInfo, which doesn’t have the flashy features of
>Evernote and OneNote but is wonderfully stable.
> >Bill
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