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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 18, 2014 at 06:35 PM
... and having just looked at Curio again, I can’t help wondering if a mixture of MagicalPad and Growly Notes wouldn’t be a rather more flexible, cost-effective alternative?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 18, 2014 at 07:55 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
Thanks Stephen.
>
>I plan to work on the project mainly on the Mac Mini. Curio (or
>MagicalPad) will be the place where I plan to do the planning and
>brainstorming. It will be a more visual thing than my other projects.
>That’s why I thought Curio might be useful. And because Curio can import
>Evernote notes - most of the notes for the project are in Evernote.
>
>Bye, Franz
Given this, I believe you’ll be quite satisfied with Curio.
Posted by jamesofford
Jun 18, 2014 at 09:02 PM
Nice to see that someone else has moved over to the Dark Side. I’m in an all Windows lab and it gets kind of lonely here.
On the writing front-I have tried several different pieces of software(I am a CRIMPer after all.)and I have always come back to Microsoft Word. It may not be the best, but I have used it for so long that I am used to its quirks. I’ve used it since it was a DOS program. And it remains the lingua franca of word processors. I do use Ulysses if I want something that is as plain text as it can be. I tried Scrivener and haven’t taken to it.
On the information managment front, I use Papers 2.7.2 to keep my pdfs in line. It works great if you need to keep track of a literature, and for generating bibliographies I think that it is better than Endnote. I have the iOS version on my iPAd and it works great. Don’t buy version 3 of Papers. They bolloxed it all up. I also use Devonthink Pro Office to keep track of stuff that doesn’t fit into Papers.
For notetaking, I use Notesuite. It has a nice, clean interface, and it is easy to use on both the Mac and iOS. I used to be an avid user of Onenote on the PC, and I have tried several of the Mac/iOS versions of software that purport to be like Onenote. Including Onenote now that Microsoft has released it for other platforms. I don’t like them as well as I do Notesuite, but if they keep improving it I may switch back to Onenote. I like the way you can organize your stuff in Onenote better than I do Notesuite.
Jim
Posted by Hugh
Jun 19, 2014 at 01:43 PM
jamesofford wrote:
Nice to see that someone else has moved over to the Dark Side. I’m in an
>all Windows lab and it gets kind of lonely here.
>
>On the writing front-I have tried several different pieces of software(I
>am a CRIMPer after all.)and I have always come back to Microsoft Word.
>It may not be the best, but I have used it for so long that I am used to
>its quirks. I’ve used it since it was a DOS program. And it remains the
>lingua franca of word processors. I do use Ulysses if I want something
>that is as plain text as it can be. I tried Scrivener and haven’t taken
>to it.
>On the information managment front, I use Papers 2.7.2 to keep my pdfs
>in line. It works great if you need to keep track of a literature, and
>for generating bibliographies I think that it is better than Endnote. I
>have the iOS version on my iPAd and it works great. Don’t buy version 3
>of Papers. They bolloxed it all up. I also use Devonthink Pro Office to
>keep track of stuff that doesn’t fit into Papers.
>For notetaking, I use Notesuite. It has a nice, clean interface, and it
>is easy to use on both the Mac and iOS. I used to be an avid user of
>Onenote on the PC, and I have tried several of the Mac/iOS versions of
>software that purport to be like Onenote. Including Onenote now that
>Microsoft has released it for other platforms. I don’t like them as well
>as I do Notesuite, but if they keep improving it I may switch back to
>Onenote. I like the way you can organize your stuff in Onenote better
>than I do Notesuite.
>
>Jim
Posted by Hugh
Jun 19, 2014 at 01:52 PM
James,
I’ve tried to like Notesuite. It’s user-interface is certainly initially strikingly cool and attractive, as is its synchronisation between the Mac and the iPad. The aspect that I find less appealing is its attempt to be a task manager as well as a notebook. I have a task manager already, and the task manager functionality of Notesuite tends (for me) to complicate the use of the software for notes, which is all I need it for. (For the same reason - the software attempting to do too many things - I’ve not been a happy user of Circus Ponies Notebook).
Do you use Notesuite successfully for managing tasks?
H