Hugh

What are the note taking/task managing features you dont like or think they are useless? 4/8/2019

A nit-pick, and an endorsement.: Luhmann wrote: >4. Estimated time >Seems like an absurd thing to include in a task manager. You can tag >items as "quick" or "major project" but trying to narrow it...

The Case for Using a Paper Planner 4/2/2019

jaslar wrote: >That article also urges the reader to check out the Traveler's Notebook. >A Japanese product, it does look beguiling. >https://www.travelers-company.com/products/trnote/about > >If a...

The Case for Using a Paper Planner 4/1/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html

Drafts for macOS beta 3/28/2019

Hugh wrote: MacStories wrote a comprehensive and very positive review yesterday: >https://www.macstories.net/reviews/drafts-5-mac/. The app sounds very >useful, not just if you use Drafts for iOS an...

Drafts for macOS beta 3/27/2019

And thanks to Luhmann for the signpost.

Drafts for macOS beta 3/27/2019

MacStories wrote a comprehensive and very positive review yesterday: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/drafts-5-mac/. The app sounds very useful, not just if you use Drafts for iOS and even without t...

Omnifocus as a Tool for Lists, not Tasks 3/21/2019

Interesting thoughts, Beck. Before trying to address them as a user of OF, I probably ought to read the David Allen guide to OF3, of which I was previously ignorant. So thanks for letting me know abou...

SheetPlanner 1.1 Beta 3/21/2019

Thanks for the response, Peter.

SheetPlanner 1.1 Beta 3/20/2019

What follows is in the nature of musing, prompted by SheetPlanner. Having briefly tried the application, I do like the design of SheetPlanner's UI, and its general approach to task management of a pa...

Ulysses v15 Released 3/13/2019

MadaboutDana wrote: Having been a bit snarky about Ulysses 15, I'm delighted to find you can >open side-by-side editors in multiple windows (on macOS), and even >choose the orientation in each separ...

Ulysses v15 Released 3/13/2019

satis wrote: > >Hugh wrote: >> Compared with Scrivener (say), Ulysses has no real outlining tools. > >How do you outline in Scrivener? > >>So the sooner the application can import OPML sheet by sh...

Ulysses v15 Released 3/12/2019

Compared with Scrivener (say), Ulysses has no real outlining tools. You can put a comment at the top of each of a series of sheets, but that's all. This handicaps it for writing anything much longer t...

New Apps of Interest 3/11/2019

Yes, I like and use SuperTab, and have watched its development with interest. Its features are much more extensive than the somewhat similar but now more or less apparently abandoned Fresh, and it is ...

Migrate from Dynalist to Outlinely 2/28/2019

JakeBernsteinWA wrote: How many people use one of these outliners (whether it's Workflowy, >Outlinely, Dynalist, or even OmniOutliner) in conjunction with other PIM >tools? > >I feel like I "need" ...

Keep It 1.6 introduces text recognition... 2/26/2019

... for images and scanned PDFs, as well as "the ability to create web archives on iOS, new Siri Shortcuts that work with the clipboard on iOS, plus other improvements to PDF editing, search, the Sha...

How much data do you store. 2/14/2019

Oh, and I endorse Bill's opinion of FoxTrot.

How much data do you store. 2/14/2019

I have about 11 Gb in 32 DEVONThink databases (all of which used to be contained in three databases, but I split them a couple of years ago the more easily to sync the data with DEVONThink To Go). I a...

Beck is Back: Turning Reading Notes into a Tinderbox Map 2/9/2019

Stephen Zeoli wrote: What I love about Beck's videos is three-fold: > >1. You get a very nice primer on certain aspects of Tinderbox, of >course, including the all-important (with Tinderbox) case ex...

Apps that offer cloning of notes 2/8/2019

Having been a journalistic hack, when writing in a journalistic style I tend to follow the ancient and sound journalistic advice: "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em, tell 'em it, and tell 'em what y...

Your System - Functions and Apps That Fulfill Them 2/7/2019

1. Brainstorming :: Tinderbox and MindNode 2. Notetaking :: Notability (for iOS) and Keep It (because Keep It works with the macOS file system better than some others) 3. Scheduling :: Fantastical 4. ...

Sorted 3 1/31/2019

Thanks for this, Steve. It is something that I'm interested in, and I'm awaiting the macOS version. Whether it will then be polished and flexible enough to pull me away from my OmniFocus/Fantastical +...

Sort of a poll: What is your favorite task manager/to do app? 1/31/2019

Stephen Zeoli wrote: Question... both specific to Everdo, but also a general inquiry... how >does an app built specifically for the Getting Things Done method scale >for people who aren't married to...

ProgressBox (iOS, macOS) 1/24/2019

Interesting - thanks for the information - the UI design looks cool. macOS does not seem well-supplied with desktop kanban apps (Hyper Plan, excepted, of course). (Worth noting that the in-app purchas...

Aquaminds Notetaker 1/22/2019

And also, no doubt, because the name was memorable. Before I began to research moving platforms from Windows to Mac OSX in the Mid-Noughties, Circus Ponies was one of the three or four Mac application...

Aquaminds Notetaker 1/22/2019

Jeffery Smith wrote: I found Circus Ponies to be prettier, and it seemed to do indexing well. >I'm not sure why the legal profession enamored of CPN but not Notetaker. > Possibly because, as I imp...

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