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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Sep 6, 2018 at 04:16 PM
tightbeam wrote:
> I wonder if InfoQube would be seen as less “unfriendly” if there were an option for a “basic” interface, stripped of all the add-on stuff
I’ve been meaning to add “modes” (beginner, advanced, etc) but haven’t got around to do it.
I know Paul J. Miller customized IQ UI extensively, perhaps he’d like to share it and I can include it in the standard distribution. Paul ?
Pierre
Posted by satis
Oct 21, 2018 at 01:34 PM
Marbux wrote:
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>Bernhard wrote:
>
>>Notecase Pro is a very descent software. Unfortunately, even the last
>>version for macOS (v4.3.4) is only 32-bit. So it wil not run anymore
>>under future versions of macOS.
>
>I’m informed by Miro that 64-bit macOS will be supported when the port
>of the program to GTK 3 is complete (now in progress; I’m running a GTK
>3 development build on Linux).
Six months later and there’s no mention of imminent GTK3 support on Mac. :(
http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php
Posted by Rochus
Nov 4, 2018 at 01:53 PM
doablesoftware wrote:
> on http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2018/02/what-makes-a-good-outliner/
>
>someone says what are the main features that makes a good outliner
>
>what’s the best outliner you use? please include your main use that sets
>the outliner apart from all the other software/outliners
Hi there, thanks for the link and the very interesting discussion I came accross today. My response might be a bit biased since I implemented my own outliner and use it as my main information management tool since. Before I used Ecco Pro (since its 16bit days), but needed something more powerful including cross-references and platform independence for the information management of large projects. You can find the tool on https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine. It supports the “killer feature” from the referenced post at organizingcreativity.com and a couple of other features requested there. I actually followed the authors suggestion and imported “War and Peace” from the Gutenberg HTML edition into a repository; runs really smooth and keeps all title structure and formatting; you can download it from http://software.rochus-keller.info/WarAndPeace.cldb.zip or try to import yourself. I used the tool in really large government projects; one of my repositories includes every note and protocol and even some studies and specifications of an eight year project; everything is cross-linked and also accessible by full text search. I actually don’t need columns because the tool supports active links with transclusion; so you cann e.g. create an outline with all references and include the navigatable abbreviations in the main text; the same applies to action items in a protocol which you can collect in another outline or section an track their status by repositioning and adding subitems. I will also look through the suggestions in this discussion and add posts if need be.
Best R.K.
Posted by Donovan
Dec 9, 2018 at 06:25 AM
I saw a couple of mentions of WhizFolders and took a look at it for the first time in many years. It’s made a lot of progress, but it all seemed to happen a while back. Is WhizNotes actively still in development? (Another pet peeve of mine: release notes/change logs that are not dated. Hate it.)
Posted by Amontillado
Dec 9, 2018 at 02:14 PM
Donovan wrote:
I saw a couple of mentions of WhizFolders and took a look at it for the
>first time in many years. It’s made a lot of progress, but it all seemed
>to happen a while back. Is WhizNotes actively still in development?
>(Another pet peeve of mine: release notes/change logs that are not
>dated. Hate it.)
Anything undated on the ‘net with relevance to contemporaneous context is evil. No argument there from me.
Writers Blocks was my first discovery in my path to enlightenment, followed by delight when I found WhizFolders.
The Pro version has significant advantage over the cheap (free, perhaps?) version, and I think the lesser version actually hurt his sales. The introductory level of WhizFolders is great, but my recollection from the time is that nobody else got my enthusiasm for the Pro version after they had seen the limited version.
I’m sure I’d still be using WhizFolders, primarily for outlining, but for two things. The developer took an extended break to pursue other projects, and I have moved on from Windows.
I can’t remember the developer’s name off hand, but he was responsive and friendly. He listened to suggestions and implemented one of mine.
If it’s back in active development, I think I’ll buy a fresh license so I can use it on my work computer, which is, sadly, Windows-based.
In fact, if WhizFolders is back in active development, I might just buy a license to encourage him, in case I find myself in a Windows environment, and as a salute to good times gone by.
For full disclosure, I rarely met anyone with my enthusiasm for the product. In my personal experience, it worked great.