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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 16, 2018 at 10:08 PM
kjxymzy wrote:
Bumping up an old thread =>
>
>Anyone still using Gingko these day? Any interesting use cases?
Here are some use cases:
http://community.gingkoapp.com/t/use-cases-care-to-share/17
I have two main uses for it:
1) for structured brainstorming and outlining of new pieces of writing from scratch. The final writing-up eventually happens in WriteMonkey, but I use the Gingko outline as a reference, ticking them off as I write up each card.
2) for reminders: for things I want to be reminded of on a daily basis, such as a list of todos or books I want to read - by setting Chrome to open those Gingko trees automatically when I launch the browser.
Gingko is particularly good for isolating topics or thoughts or todos by using one topic etc. per card, so it’s like a set of virtual index cards that are easy to move around or browse.
I tend to use Gingko for relatively small projects (10k word pieces), as once you have too many cards in a tree, things can become confusing or overwhelming after a while (just like any other outliner).
Posted by kjxymzy
Jan 16, 2018 at 11:42 PM
Thx for the response.
The 10k words is a good metric I will definitely keep in mind.
My use case is for coding notes. I have a bunch of notes in Bear that I’m migrating because there is no easy way to organize them hierarchically in Bear (summary notes w/ links got clumsy). Only thing I miss so far is the syntax highlighting.
Also am going to try doing my next writing project in Gingko. I often do a lot of writing in iThoughtsX(Ive stuck with it because it killed my writers block), but Gingko seems like a much better fit for actual writing projects and how I write.
Dr Andus wrote:
kjxymzy wrote:
>Bumping up an old thread =>
>>
>>Anyone still using Gingko these day? Any interesting use cases?
>
>Here are some use cases:
>
>http://community.gingkoapp.com/t/use-cases-care-to-share/17
>
>I have two main uses for it:
>
>1) for structured brainstorming and outlining of new pieces of writing
>from scratch. The final writing-up eventually happens in WriteMonkey,
>but I use the Gingko outline as a reference, ticking them off as I write
>up each card.
>
>2) for reminders: for things I want to be reminded of on a daily basis,
>such as a list of todos or books I want to read - by setting Chrome to
>open those Gingko trees automatically when I launch the browser.
>
>Gingko is particularly good for isolating topics or thoughts or todos by
>using one topic etc. per card, so it’s like a set of virtual index cards
>that are easy to move around or browse.
>
>I tend to use Gingko for relatively small projects (10k word pieces), as
>once you have too many cards in a tree, things can become confusing or
>overwhelming after a while (just like any other outliner).
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 17, 2018 at 10:24 AM
One trick to extend the usability of Gingko is to use it together with a text expander app (I use PhraseExpander but there are a couple of free ones) to make it easier to insert HTML code e.g. for highlighting text in yellow or to insert icon images hosted on Dropbox such as green ticks for completed cards, red X to mark excluded cards, or a yellow warning sign (!) for work-in-progress cards or to mark them as “attention needed”.
You can also use CSS to change font size, remove touch screen controls (that appear automatically on small format laptops), or change the look and feel of cards and trees, etc. etc. There are a number of CSS scripts people have shared on the Gingko forum:
http://community.gingkoapp.com/search?q=css
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jan 20, 2018 at 11:24 PM
I fiddled around with the free Gingko several years ago, but it didn’t seem to fill a need for me. With the apparent demise of Tree and the recently resurrected thread here, I decided to give it another look. It absolutely fills a need for me now, namely, scheduling tasks in several different projects. Reminds me slightly of Ulysses and Bear, but I like the workflow of Gingko better.
Posted by kjxymzy
Jan 21, 2018 at 12:56 AM
I’m glad I bumped this thread.
Over the past week or so, Gingko has been working quite well for me. I think the major draw of Gingko has been the ability to sort/organize of cards/thoughts in a more visual and precise manner. At this time, Gingko has mostly replaced my other favorite note/writing app, Bear, as a writing tool and has relegated it mostly to a finished writing depository for works/notes I’ve written in Gingko/other apps.
Besides the praise, I have two wishes for Gingko:
- a live markdown editor* similar to Bear, which, IMO is best in class (versus the current editor that requires a user to exit editing before seeing the results)
- search with matches being highlighted and explorable within context (versus the current method of isolating cards that match the search query, and hiding those that do not, which removes context and obstructs the big picture view of a tree)
I am already greatly satisfied w/ Gingko and hope Adriano continues his brilliant work long into the future.
* by live markdown editor, I mean it shows the results of markup cleanly/beautifully w/o hiding the markup like a rich-text editor would
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I fiddled around with the free Gingko several years ago, but it didn’t
>seem to fill a need for me. With the apparent demise of Tree and the
>recently resurrected thread here, I decided to give it another look. It
>absolutely fills a need for me now, namely, scheduling tasks in several
>different projects. Reminds me slightly of Ulysses and Bear, but I like
>the workflow of Gingko better.