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Posted by Marbux
May 11, 2018 at 02:04 AM
jaslar wrote:
>KnowIt is an improved
>Tuxcards; I wrote a book with it.
Is there a new version of KnowIt available? I used it many years ago and loved it but it became abandonware and had some serious bugs. I really liked that you could optionally directly edit raw HTML. But a very weird file format, HTML imposed on RTF. As I recall the text attributes were done in RTF but the rest in HTML.
I moved on because of the bugs and I wanted an outliner that would run on both Linux and Windows. I eventually settled on NoteCase Pro and wound up helping on its development as a volunteer.
Posted by jaslar
May 11, 2018 at 02:34 PM
Yeah, that’s my story, too. I first used Tuxcards, much preferred KnowIt, and was thrilled when I contacted the author to add word count, and he sent me the revised program the next day. But you’re right about the file structure. I jumped to Notecase Pro, too, which has been under active development, and is far more robust.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 11, 2018 at 04:42 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
@Alexander,
>
>I wonder how your Linux experiment is going.
Actually, quite well. It never became my main working OS, but I have a second notebook which I often turn to. Recently, my main notebook went kaput so the Linux one became my main portable machine for a couple of weeks. I was quite amazed by its easy setup. It recognised and installed my external (DisplayLink compatible) graphics card straight away. At my office, as soon as I attempted to print, it identified all printers available on the network and so on…
The main reason for sticking to Windows is my team’s collaboration with many others relying on Microsoft Office, and in particular Word’s Track Changes mode. Apparently correctly running MS Office is one of the key objectives of Crossover, but the issue is quite complex, so I have not used it on work as yet.
>Seeing Google’s announcement today (in a nutshell, Chromebooks will be
>able to run Linux apps directly within Chrome OS, without the need for
>any special workarounds, as currently is the case), there is a chance I
>might develop an unhealthy interest in outliner tools on Linux in the
>foreseable future ;-)
This reads quite impressive; I wonder how the performance experience will be on the less powerful chromebooks. A serious advantage of Linux is its performance on low budget hardware. I believe most Linux afficcionados would never dream of running Linux on a virtual machine within a proprietary OS.
Re tools on Linux, I mostly rely on web applications and multiplatform programmes, so these are subgroups of what I have in Windows :
- Google G Suite
- Dropbox
- Sublime Text
- B-Folders
- Brainstorm (fine under Crossover)
- Cmap Tools
- Evernote
- Gingko
- Kanban Tool
- Mindomo
- Notecase Pro
- Treesheets
- Zenkit
To try out in the near future: MyBase, the new Brain, Komodo Edit, Visual Studio Code
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 11, 2018 at 06:25 PM
I forgot to mention Outwiker http://jenyay.net/Outwiker/English I’ve used it successfully to structure text notes across directories; its advantage is that it can also handle HTML and wiki markup. However, since my notes are text only, I can organise them directly through Sublime Text.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 12, 2018 at 10:29 AM
Thanks; MX looks like a very interesting distribution.
cicerosc wrote:
>Dr. Andrus you probably already know but Ecco and Bonsai work perfectly
>under linux. I am in legal profession and I use Bonsai and Ecco in
>Crossover/Wine every day in my favorite distribution, MX-17.