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Posted by Dellu
May 14, 2022 at 06:14 PM
Amontillado wrote:
>For instance, when you double click on a group in DT, it either opens in
>a new window or just focuses on the group in the current window. You
>choose in the preferences. I like to keep “open groups in new window”
>turned off, because the right-click open function always opens in a new
>window.
>
>A lot of times I turn off the sidebar and then double-click the group I
>want to focus on.
>
>I think the main reason I tolerate DT’s Eeyore-ish appearance is nested
>tags. I get a lot of mileage out of tag hierarchies.
That is right. I known you can focus a group and work on that. I know, you can just immerse yourself to DT and do everything in it. I appreciate people who can do that. I know DT is just sufficient for anything you want to do. It is a world of its own.
It might be just how my mind works; since I have a lot of stuff in DT, I get my mind wandering a lot: going back and forth between groups, tags and other resources such as the pdf articles. I also need to juggle a lot of windows to move back and forth to get where I have been there.
So many things I can do and so many ways of doing it in DT, I find it harder to concentrate on the issue (topic of study) on hand for longer period of time.
KeepIt is much simpler. What you have is just your Bundles/folders on one side, and list of notes in the middle. The simplicity makes it easier to focus on the issue.
That is just my experience.
Posted by Dellu
May 14, 2022 at 06:23 PM
Creating a separate library (database) within DT just for notes would probably have solved my issues with the mess. That idea never came to me. I have just one database for everything.
Posted by tberni
May 15, 2022 at 09:11 AM
Dellu, I understand your experience and I share it, I have realised that the function that KeepIt fulfils for you, in my case I get it through Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks. Your comments have encouraged me to integrate Notebook with DevonThink through the indexing of its library, so that now I have started to use them in an integrated way as you suggest. Greetings to all and thanks for the fruitful discussions.
Dellu wrote:
>KeepIt is much simpler. What you have is just your Bundles/folders on
>one side, and list of notes in the middle. The simplicity makes it
>easier to focus on the issue.
>
>That is just my experience.
Posted by Dellu
May 15, 2022 at 01:28 PM
tberni wrote:
Dellu, I understand your experience and I share it, I have realised that
>the function that KeepIt fulfils for you, in my case I get it through
>Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks. Your comments have encouraged me to integrate
>Notebook with DevonThink through the indexing of its library, so that
>now I have started to use them in an integrated way as you suggest.
>Greetings to all and thanks for the fruitful discussions.
I am glad you find helpful ideas.
yes, Notebooks is another simple, but effective application. I have tried it a few years ago when looking to simple, but effective apps. I even liked it better than Keep It at the time. If I remember correctly it also has internal task management capabilities. What made me to decide against it was the inability to create rtf files. That was a deal breaker to be because I like RTF format a lot.
- I especially would like to write in black and blue colors: and because I want to avoid plagiarism.
When I am reading articles, I write in normal black colors when I am quoting or paraphrasing the author; and write in blue when I am adding my won reflections and ideas. I can directly copy those blue texts; but need to be careful with the black ones. That has been with me forever. Emulating this into Markdown turn to be difficult. (and the other format was html, if I remember; i don’t like that format because no other app (text edit) can easily edit it).
So, I just stick with rtf.
I decided to go with Keep it. Otherwise, they are very similar; and both are capable apps. The transparent storing of the notes is a great quality of both apps.