Hugh
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Minimalist champions
8/5/2013
Another fan of Ulysses III and Daedalus here.
Ultrarecall - Help!!!
8/1/2013
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>This has been happening to me for as long as I can remember, and I'm
>'only' 45. So consider yourself lucky.
>
>I have noticed a location-sensitivity of memories. When ...
Project Management Software?
7/26/2013
Thanks for this reminder, Steve. I tried Pagico and used it for a period on a daily basis two or three years ago. As you say, it was distinctive then as a desktop project/task manager that also includ...
I think it's fairly handicapping to begin a taxonomy with the ambition that this one has without noting that there are several different operating systems on desktop computers, and either stating from...
Project Management Software?
7/8/2013
I've not come across Liquid Planner before. It seems rather good, thoughtfully put together, with lots of features, if expensive. Thanks.
Project Management Software?
6/29/2013
johnmcde wrote:
You might want to try Org-mode. Org has a sophisticated system for
>clocking time, etc. and Org is a wonderful single pane outliner.
>Org-mode is a major mode of Gnu-Emacs which is f...
Levels of service
6/29/2013
For me, Scrivener support has always been really excellent, right from the point when Literature and Latte was a one-person band - a major factor in the attractiveness of the product and in my eagerne...
Thanks, Bill. Just downloaded it - £2.99 in the UK Mac App Store. What I can say at the moment is that its signature colour is a nice, graded blue.
Project Management Software?
6/26/2013
Two additional thoughts.
First, I can't spell 'Gantt'.
Second, what do you mean by 'time tracking'? Most Gantt-chart based applications will enable you to record actual progress against the plan, an...
Project Management Software?
6/26/2013
Sorry to cop out (partially), but it depends on the nature of the project. The answers to several questions are needed to help define the requirements of your software, such as, in random order: How c...
As I've written here before, I used to work in a business where outlining was essential. I worked in current affairs TV. This required our films (half an hour or more in length) to be timely, and ther...
White board software
5/27/2013
Not referenced in this thread, but IIRC in the corkboard thread mentioned above (and also in previous threads) is Curio - a pretty damn wonderful realisation of the digital whiteboard concept. For the...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
5/12/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
Gary Carson wrote:
>Outliner 4D is basically a combination of a traditional outliner with an
>>index card view. It's a good idea, but it doesn't work that well in
>>practice. The out...
The ultimate outliner
1/16/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>Also, I wasn't implying that the "ultimate outliner" would need to have
>a huge number of features. It's about having the right kind of features,
>and simplicity can be one of the ...
Multiple Monitors
1/15/2013
Ben wrote:
...it was a sort of UI
>uncanny valley.
:)
Multiple Monitors
1/15/2013
Ben - if you face the menu-bar issue again, it may be worth looking at this round-up: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/utilities-roundups/30-apps-for-your-multiple-monitor-setup/
Multiple Monitors
1/15/2013
My desktop is a 2011 Mac Mini. Currently I use only one monitor - a 22-inch Acer. It suits me for most of what I do. But the 2011 Mac Mini also has two monitor ports - HDMI and Thunderbolt, if I remem...
Yes, thanks for the heads up. I've signed up for a Taskk trial. So far I can't see how to input "hard landscape" diary commitments, but perhaps that will come. It is a work-in-progress.
I once tried ...
Hewson on MS Word revision
1/10/2013
My thought too. I got an iPad Mini just before Christmas. Then it was the latest thing. Now the latest thing is the Microsoft Surface - with, quite possibly, distinct advantages. Next week, perhaps a ...
Hewson on MS Word revision
1/10/2013
For long-form writers: http://davidhewson.com/2013/01/08/microsoft-word-revision-the-best-solution-yet/
Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday
1/7/2013
Thanks for the suggestions, Steve and Alexander.
On the issue of price, I do agree that Goalscape is over-priced at the non-discounted level (although I've just bought it with the BdJ discount - Crim...
Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday
1/7/2013
Thank you for the writing link, Alexander.
Leaving aside the issue of cost, Goalscape's UI appears better than a not-dissimilar rival called GoalEnforcer. I wish it exported in OPML and then one coul...
Neo outliner
12/31/2012
And no, sorry, I'm no expert. I just worked through the "manual". I guess it helped that I'd grappled with TAO previously.
Neo outliner
12/31/2012
OmniOutliner is good, smart and "finished" with a very supportive development team, but it still lacks clones, and it appears Version 4 will do so too. Neo has one of the most complicated interfaces i...
Writing Software for Writers
12/28/2012
Listerene wrote:
Seems to be heavily Mac-centric and waaay out of date.
>
>Missing are common pc programs such as
>yWriter
>Storybook Pro
>Writer's Café
>Liquid Story Binder
>Save the Cat
>Snow...