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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 25, 2023 at 05:08 PM
I used Sidekick on an old 386 DOS machine. It’s best feature was that you could use it to clip text from one application and paste it into another. That was almost revolutionary back in the day.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Ah yes, I’ve remembered what I was wittering about earlier. Lotus Agenda
>wasn’t the app I was thinking of, as it happens – I was thinking
>of Lotus Organizer, originally developed by a small UK-based firm and
>then bought by Lotus. A very similar program was originally published by
>Borland: Sidekick. The Windows version of this was really quite powerful
>and pleasant to use, and I used it for a couple of years before CRIMPing
>away to something else…
>
>And that in turn reminds me of the (again, very similar) Palm Desktop.
>We did a lot of work for Palm Europe back in the day, but you youngsters
>won’t remember what a Palm handheld device even was. My whole production
>team had Treo mobile phones for a few years, before the iPhone
>comprehensively nuked the market, blew away Windows CE and caused Palm
>to sell off PalmOS (after the latter had caused Psion to sell off their
>extraordinary and much-lamented Windows-lite OS – vastly
>superior to Windows CE). Ah, those were the Golden Days! I still toy
>with my AlphaSmart Dana (running on PalmOS) and Psion 5mx even now,
>before regretfully putting them back in the drawer where they belong.
Posted by NickG
Jul 25, 2023 at 05:31 PM
NickG wrote:
Most of this thread seems to be self-certified opens source purists
This should have read “Most of *that* thread - the combinator one. Apologies for the confusion
Posted by Amontillado
Jul 26, 2023 at 02:29 AM
Lotus Organizer was my first personal info manager. After that was the PalmOS desktop app with a Palm Pilot.
I could write Graffiti without looking at the screen almost as fast as I could write on paper. It was great for meetings and note-taking.
Posted by satis
Jul 30, 2023 at 11:57 PM
Shu Omi on YouTube: “Anytype is like a baby between Notion and Apple Notes with a hint of Obsidian.” A positive overview coming from an Amplenote super-fanboy, although he ultimately says it has too much of a learning curve and there “too much” time that would be spent on the Notion-like customizations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSXrKM1iUZA
It does seem like a guided/handholding variant of Notion - which I consider a good thing. And I like the customizable sidebar widgets.
But one of the reasons I’ve avoided Notion is because of the vast open-endedness in customization (which results in making and remaking one’s dashboard and pages - as evidenced by posts in all the Notion-oriented fora I’ve read) - and that complaint about Anytype is somewhat of a deterrent for me.
Posted by NickG
Jul 31, 2023 at 08:01 AM
Oh, he’s on Amplenote now. He started out as a super-fanboy of either Logseq or Roam and he’s been super-fanboying other stuff in the interim. I’m wary of commentary from people who make their living out of talking about these tools (as opposed to those who use the tools to help make a living)
satis wrote:
Shu Omi on YouTube: “Anytype is like a baby between Notion and Apple
>Notes with a hint of Obsidian.” A positive overview coming from an
>Amplenote super-fanboy, although he ultimately says it has too much of a
>learning curve and there “too much” time that would be spent on the
>Notion-like customizations.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSXrKM1iUZA
>
>It does seem like a guided/handholding variant of Notion - which I
>consider a good thing. And I like the customizable sidebar widgets.
>
>But one of the reasons I’ve avoided Notion is because of the vast
>open-endedness in customization (which results in making and remaking
>one’s dashboard and pages - as evidenced by posts in all the
>Notion-oriented fora I’ve read) - and that complaint about Anytype is
>somewhat of a deterrent for me.
>
>