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Posted by Cassius
Aug 8, 2007 at 04:56 AM
JIM: URGENT!
If you haven’t purchased yet and you intend to use the MacBook on battery, you should look into which Intel processors are or soon will be available.
According to an article I just read, Intel has new 7000 series Core 2 Duo chips that are supposed to extend battery life. Some new PC laptops have them. I don’t know about Macs, but…
-c
Posted by Derek Cornish
Aug 8, 2007 at 02:25 PM
Graham,
> Those of us who use many languages need programs like Acrobat to allow fonts to be embedded, so that anybody who reads the document doesn’t have to buy and install all the fonts used.
I couldn’t agree more, Graham. But my point was a different one:
>> It is the most intractable of formats, and too often used when plain text would do just as well…
> This is also one of the reasons I’d like to see improvements in this area in Zoot ...
Me, too. But I could say this about a lot of the programs discussed here. OneNote seems to do the best job at the moment.
Derek
Posted by Jonathan Probber
Aug 8, 2007 at 05:09 PM
Jim: Journler got a brief mention, but I think you ought to really check this one out. Imports pictures, audio and video, Acrobat files, and just about anything else. Really Smooth. And…it’s free!
For straight outlining, OmniOutliner Pro seems to be the bomb. I’ve been on my MacBook now for 2 months after years of Windows, and I’m really enjoying it.
Good Luck!
Posted by Hugh Pile
Aug 8, 2007 at 05:53 PM
Jim wrote:
>I was about to ask about
>Notetaker and Hog Bay Notebook(Now called Mori and available from Apokalypse
>software http://apokalypsesoftware.com/products/mori)
Welcome back to the Mac world, Jim! This may be a good moment to switch. The new iMacs announced today look particularly desirable; as Mrs Simpson observed, you can never be too thin.
Mori is another mid-range, notebook-metaphor data manager. When I had a cursory look at it a few months ago, I thought it might provide more functionality per pound than either NoteTaker or Circus Ponies, but since then the original developer has sold it and it remains to be seen whether the new owner will bring to it the same enthusiasm.
I have used Journler. It’s very capable and nicely-designed donationware, but for me its journalling tools slightly obscured its data management capabilities and I had no use for its multi-media functions.
H
Posted by Hugh Pile
Aug 9, 2007 at 03:26 PM
Hugh Pile wrote:
>My workflow is Devonthink
>Pro>Curio>Scrivener>MSWord. I also use Yojimbo for simpler storage. I may drop
>DevonThink if I find Scrivener or Curio can contain all my research, and I’m actively
>looking for a replacement for Word, like Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro or possibly Bean.
>But unfortunately no one has so far replicated Word’s change-tracking function.
Ha! Never say “no one”.
Apple’s Pages, contained within iWork 2008 just launched, has a pretty-looking change-tracking function. Pages can even import MS Word’s tracked changes, as well as many other Word elements. http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/
It’s still the only such alternative I know of. But a Word-free future has just opened up, should one want it.