Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call

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Posted by zoe
Jan 8, 2016 at 02:58 PM

Here’s the setup that I’ve spent a number of months refining.

Home and office (Windows desktops):

- Emacs with the following modes/packages:
—org-mode for project and todo management
—Deft for nvAlt-style plaintext file browsing.
—helm/helm-swoop for searching within the body of files
—markdown-mode for writing & copyediting

Mobile (iPhone 5):

- Editorial for browsing and editing .org and .md files

All these files are kept in Dropbox. Rather than one giant org-mode outline file, I maintain lots of individual .org files, one for each project or list. This is because navigating a long text file on iOS is impractical and frustrating. All the .org files are automatically added to the agenda. This allows me to get a complete todo list for absolutely everything using the org-agenda function.

I am really liking org’s ability to extract these TODO entries from many files and aggregate them. It lets me keep projects compartmentalized in their own files, but doesn’t prevent me from getting the 20,000 foot view when I need it.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 8, 2016 at 07:30 PM

Wow, that is so hard-core minimalist. The total opposite of CRIMPing. I’m seriously impressed!

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 8, 2016 at 07:32 PM

>Looking forward to TheBrain 9 and Scrivener for iPad in 2016.
> >Steve Z.

Let’s not forget: Scrivener and Ulysses for iPad and iPhone in 2016 (Keith’s already published photos of Scrivener running on his iPhone - years ago, in fact).

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 8, 2016 at 07:54 PM

My setup in 2015

* E-Mail: Outlook on Windows and Mac, iOS Mail
* Calendar: Outlook, iOS Calender plus Week Cal
* ToDo: LibreOffice Calc
* Writing: LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word 2016, Ulysses on Mac and iOS
* Text expansion: PhraseExpress (Win), TextExpander (Mac, iOS)
* Proofreeading: Papyrus (Win/Mac) for German and Grammarly (web service) for English
* Clustering, brainstorming, outlining: Scapple, Xmind, Scrivener (less and less), Word 2013/2016, LibreOffice Calc
* Publishing: Jutoh for e-books, LibreOffice PDF export, Wordpress
* Notes: Evernote (Win/Mac/iOS), NoteCase Pro (Win/Mac), OneNote (Windows only), Ulysses

Plans for 2016
* Getting rid of Evernote.
Reasons: Organizing several notebooks in EN is cumbersome - I prefer using folders over tags, and while you can create folders using them is ... Moreover, for a while EN did hang on my Macbook Pro - uninstalling or upgrading did not help; in the meantime, EN works again. Same thing on my iPad 2, these problems are gone now, too. Nevertheless, my trust in EN is going down.

Alternatives I will test over the next weeks:
- NoteCasePro: biggest advantage is the support for Windows and Mac OS X
I just moved part of my stuff over to NoteCase Pro and try to see how I get along. Importing worked in an older version of NC but not in the current NC 4.1.1. Miroslav has been very responsive, he sent me a couple of updates over New Year trying to fix the import bug; so far it hasn’t been resolved.
- DevonThink
- Curio

* Trying new tools
Zengobi Curio
Workflowy

* Crossover for Mac OS X
for running Office 2013 and 2016 for Win on my Mac Mini (still hoping to get rid of my Windows PCs)

Posted by andante
Jan 8, 2016 at 08:45 PM

Hi all,

here’s what my outlining/Crimping setup looked like in 2015 (and still looks like)

Mac:
- OutlineEdit
- Letterspace
- (occasionally: iA writer, Outlinely)

iOS:
- Letterspace
- Vesper
- Notes.app (built-in, after iOS 9 update)
- LiquidText for extracting PDF highlights, which I later open in Word on my Mac

Web:
- Trello

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