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Posted by Mike Biel
Jan 15, 2016 at 05:04 PM
First time post here…
I’m a Mac user
Note taking for writing projects: Tinderbox (love it but know I’m not using it to its full potential)
Note taking for work related info, committees, etc: Workflowy
Note taking for patients (I’m a speech-language pathologist/academic): Curio since it allows me to embed audio and video files, the very flexible scrapbook approach just makes sense for covering diagnostic thinking, treatment planning, and data collection
Note taking that is very temporary: Noteaway - it sits in my menubar, has decent formatting ability, and will remain visible when other windows are active
Reference manager: Sente
Document searching: Foxtrot Pro - I love the ability to search my entire Sente database (~5000 journal articles) for the occurrence of 2 or more neighboring words
Writing: back and forth between Ulysses and Scrivener, Microsoft Word
Todos: Omnifocus
For 2016
Will probably explore other writing apps, something particularly useful for academic writing and collaboration. Neither Ulysses or Scrivener have really clicked with me. I might try Manuscripts, Authorea, Penflip, or Drafts (Draftin.com) or just dedicate more time to understanding Ulysses or Scrivener…
Posted by Garland Coulson
Jan 16, 2016 at 12:08 AM
Windows 10 desktop user and Windows 10 Surface tablet and Android phone user.
My setup for productivity is like this:
Task Management: Teamwork
Notes/Knowledge Management: OneNote
Text Expander: Phrase Express
Mind Mapping: Xmind
CRM: Insight.ly
Posted by cpb
Jan 19, 2016 at 10:00 PM
Useful things in 2015:
* Plaintext for any input.
* Sublime (Windows) and Helium (Blackberry) for editing plaintext.
* Same as above for editing/evaluating Python.
* Python for turning plaintext into other things (html, pdf, etc.).
* Brilliant database and Gnuplot for one-off data mining jobs.
* Todolist.exe for project oversight and file bookmarking (sometimes use Brilliant if things need to be automated).
Promising things:
* Emacs + org + SQLite… good idea but laggy & temperamental.
* HLA… will replace python once I understand it better.
* Windows10 Outlook. Severely regressed for a while, but what I’m seeing emerge now is pretty slick… now arguably more capable than mail/calendar on older Nokias.
* Juggernaut. x86 Surface phone with proper convergence… if they don’t stuff it up, like blocking multitasking, or blocking win32 programs from running unless the device is docked, or not supporting console/coding keyboard-layouts and macros. Being able to run a win32 executable or script (via runtime) in the background is essential for working with custom tools. They need to sell it as a producer device, not consumer.
Disappointing things:
* OneNote on Windows10 phone. Seems to be missing a lot of formatting options.
* TheBrain 9. Still basic; still only memo & date field per record, no form/table customization, weak filtering, no i/o parsers.
* Blackberry Blend (and Blackberry in general), was so close to being a live-in solution, but they got flighty and went Android. All they needed for Blend was to add the integrated note-taking/task app, the web browser and the BB10 dark-theme.
Posted by more human than humus
Jan 20, 2016 at 09:01 PM
OK, let’s try to do the list:
1. Mediawiki + SemanitcMediawiki - for general knowledge base (based on the zettelkasten rules).
2. OneNote - for quickly collecting quotations, thoughts and so on. To be incorporated into Mediawiki once a week (or more often). And for base for tips and tricks and howtos (strictly technical).
3. Midori notebook (analog!) - the same as OneNote.
3. Workflowy - for outlining big projects.
4. Todoist - for task management and general, quick and dirty inbox.
5. Gmail - for mail :)
6. Sublimetext - editor for almost everything
7. Zotero - ultimate references and pdf collector.
8. Pandoc and markdown with LaTeX elements - for writing papers (in Sublime, of course).
9. QGIS - for mapping (I’m very happy migrating from ArcGIS).
10. Gnuplot - you know, for charts.
11. SQLite and Access for databases.
12. R for statistics.
There are some more, but a dozen to show is enough :)
The tools listed from 1 to 4 are new, I’m started to use them in 2015 or in the end of 2014. But they do it’s job very good. And the rest of the list is much more well settled.
Posted by Simon
Feb 25, 2016 at 04:30 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
Ah. Well.
>...The whole idea of, for example, creating tags for every
>day so that it can be used as a diary - madness. Like the bullet journal
>- great idea in some respects,. but “just write out the dates for every
>day in the coming month”, And then write them all again because there’s
>not enough space for the appointments. Then find you need to write an
>appointment for seven months ahead and rewrite everything .... what???
>Ain’t nobody got time for that! I use a diary on paper - can’t be
>beaten. Hence my “not pushing programs I do use to do things they
>can’t do comfortably” comment.
Actually this is relatively easy. I have the complete year in Workflowy and it didn’t take more than 10 min to set up. I use a Mac. I open a new Numbers (Mac spreadsheet document), type a date 01/01/2016 customise the format of the cell so it displays “Jan-01-2016-Fri”. I then select the cell and use the fill button which I drag down. The fill option copies the cell and moves the date on by one day. I drag down until I hit “Dec-31-2016-Sat”. I select all the cells, paste in Workflow and the job is done. If I want to get more fancy I do the same with the names “January” to “December”, copy and paste them in to Workflowy and move the relevant days under the months.
Why would I want my diary in Workflowy?
I have set if tags I use for diary entries, #event, #meeting, #birthday, etc. These sit on a line of their own above the months of the year. All I need to remember is that if it’s a meeting to add #meeting. This comes fairly easily and the autocomplete helps out. I can go to the top level of my calendar and click on #meeting and all my meetings appear with everything else filtered out. If I want to see all meeting with @Fred-Bloggs I just add that tag and it further filters. This has made Workflowy so useful. I can have a complete project under one bullet, I can have many parts of a project spread out over many meetings and without needing to move them just add the project bullet. When I click the bullet, everything else disappears and the bullet items are in plain view. I can share individual bullets with others if I need. Everything is available on my mac, ipad and iphone. The format is not locked in. An automatic backup gets made to my dropbox account and I can export the whole thing in opml for any outliner.
What’s not to love! ;)