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Virtual machines for CRIMPers 2/8/2016

Thanks for explaining "memory pressure" and its limits, Bill - not a topic that I knew anything about. I understand now why my experience of Parallels in my longterm "experiment" was always at the mar...

Virtual machines for CRIMPers 2/7/2016

Thanks for the tip about Veertu - I hadn't heard about it, and it sounds as if it's worth exploring. I realise quite a few people probably want go from Windows to Mac, but for those who wish to go t...

Day One 2 available on Thursday 2/5/2016

A helpful review on Steve Z.'s site: https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com. Thanks, Steve.

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

Hello Andy, My requirements are probably similar to many other people's, but for what it's worth I'll lay them out for you. I have a range of tasks and activities which I need to plan. At one end of...

Cloud Outliner 2 for OS X 1/21/2016

Stephen Zeoli wrote: I have OmniOutliner installed on both my MacBooks and on my iPad Air. I >can't say that I use it extensively, but I do use it. I haven't >experienced any crashes, but my outline...

WordCounter 1/8/2016

A New Year has encouraged me to review my "productivity" tools, including WordCounter. Not an outliner application of course, but potentially useful to those who use outliner applications on the Mac:...

Taskfabric / Organize:Pro 1/6/2016

Daly, I entirely agree about the Taskfabric website. H

Taskfabric / Organize:Pro 1/5/2016

I tried it a couple of years ago, in a temporary period of separating from Omnifocus, pre-Omnifocus 2. At that time, Taskfabric/Organise:Pro on the Mac seemed to suffer from too many bugs/glitches/fea...

Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business 1/5/2016

Like, I believe, some others here, I have a nostalgic affection for CPN, and am sorry to see it go.

Ulysses progress 1/3/2016

Is further progress desirable (other than with the promised iPhone app, and keeping abreast of OS10 and iOS upgrades)? Possibly this is a heretical question, but one of Ulysses's major attractions to ...

Mindly for iphone, ipad 1/3/2016

Stephen Zeoli wrote: How is Mindly working for you? I just saw that Mindly now has a version >for OSX in case that is of interest. > >Steve Z. Thanks for this, Steve.

Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call 1/2/2016

Paul Korm wrote: For 2015, I'm pleased with how Curio and iThoughts (all platforms) >continue to mature and I anticipate continuing evolution of new features >for them. > >I think Ulysses has platea...

Yet another Markdown editor... 1/1/2016

Or non-Italian speakers not well-versed in 21st-century American slang?

Yet another Markdown editor... 1/1/2016

Dr Andus wrote: Yet another Markdown editor, this time for Windows. It looks like this >editor is focusing on writing web pages and blog posts. Seems to be >early stage. (The web page is in Italian....

TheBrain 9 -- First Look Preview 12/27/2015

Thanks for this. I'm especially pleased that Java has been written out.

Ulysses 2.1 for iPad/Mac - folding, .docx 12/19/2015

shatteredmindofbob wrote: But will they ever update Daedelus Touch? Or is that pretty much >abandoned now? My guesses are: "No" and "Yes" (on the grounds that, if I remember correctly, DT was crea...

MarginNote 12/17/2015

Thank you for this, Paul.

WriteMonkey gets better and better 12/13/2015

Echoes of Ulysses III?

Interesting Article on Organizing Information 12/12/2015

Yes, a very interesting article. Thank you for it. On the basis of a single reading, I'm not entirely convinced by all its arguments - particularly in regard to the potential role of Evernote in one'...

Textexpander for Mac 51% off for the next days 12/2/2015

I agree, Franz. If you do much writing for a living or for pleasure, it's a very worthwhile investment. (And to any Mac newcomer, confused by the choice of text-replacement apps available, I'd say thi...

Curio 10 now available 11/9/2015

Thanks for the news, Steve and Paul.

My Current Setup and its Limitations 11/9/2015

It would have been clearer if I'd written "... whose use I have shared with you..." - in the case of Todoist, self-evidently.

My Current Setup and its Limitations 11/9/2015

Thank you very much for this very helpful series of reviews. The two applications whose use I share with you are Todoist and Evernote. For both, I pretty much agree with your summaries; the "no-start...

de-CRIMPing 11/7/2015

So, perhaps, a "lapsed crimper"?

de-CRIMPing 11/7/2015

Is there such a person as a de-crimper, or an un-crimper? Is one not forever a "recovering crimper"?

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