Hugh
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InfoMason - Zotero - MyInfo
3/6/2009
Selenium 3.5 was a new name for me. I wasn't encouraged by the screenshots where the name of the software and the logo seemed to take up a disproportionate amount of screen real estate.
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Tinderbox 4.6
3/6/2009
Hi Steve
I don't pretend to be an expert, and in fact I haven't upgraded to 4.6, which I believe embodies a large number of changes.
Sometimes it's easier to say what Tinderbox isn't. It's far from ...
Against Everything Buckets
2/12/2009
More views on this topic, related to Tinderbox and DevonThink:
http://www.markbernstein.org/Feb09/EverythingBuckets.html
http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7452
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Against Everything Buckets
2/10/2009
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Here's a freeware file tagging program for Windows, currently in
>beta:
>http://lunarfrog.com/
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>I haven't tried it or tagging in general yet, but am
>warming up to t...
Against Everything Buckets
2/10/2009
Chris Thompson wrote:
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>...I do agree that using
>the filesystem together with filesystem metadata is a valid alternative for
>information management for many people and is worth considering.
>
>...
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
Not sure about excitement, but for innovation Flying Logic (http://flyinglogic.com/) and to a lesser extent the similar but slightly more orthodox Rationale (http://rationale.austhink.com/tour) ought ...
UltraRecall on BDJ - Jan/28/2009
1/22/2009
I used to use UR. It's very sad to read of the current tangle. I thought that by the standards of the time, only a few years ago, it was a very good programme indeed - if one could work out how to use...
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
No one's mentioned EverNote, which is innovative and interesting.
But to the extent that there is a more general diminution of development, at least on Windows, OneNote must bear some responsibility....
Intriguing new task-management software
1/14/2009
Agreed, Steve. I suspect the developer was looking at Omnifocus when he set his price, but at $80 OF has more tools than THL promises and is in any case fairly toppy for this class of software. Things...
Intriguing new task-management software
1/14/2009
I've now used The Hit List beta for a few days, and it's potentially a very nice piece of software, lacking some important functionality and still prone to crashing occasionally.
I like Omnifocus qui...
Intriguing new task-management software
1/10/2009
Chris Thompson wrote:
>I tried this during the beta period. The user interface is nice, but it's somewhat
>light on features. One way of looking at it is as a slightly different user interface to
...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
12/9/2008
A question and a statement for Michal:
- what can a wiki contribute to fiction-writing, other than storage of research and initial random-ish jottings? For the task of writing itself, even of fiction...
Netbooks - Hardware CRIMP?
12/5/2008
Here's a flickr thread that contains a few references* and opinions: http://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157609675270147/
*including one from last weekend's Sunday Times: http://technol...
I want it all, now!
11/10/2008
Here's a contrary view, not made purely for the sake of a debate. I wouldn't necessarily welcome more cross-platform operability, even (or especially) if it involved Microsoft OneNote.
One of the rea...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The Mac world makes having different views of your PIM data easier -- as many
>programs integrate with the Apple calendar application, iCal. In Circus Ponies
>Notebook you b...
Curio 5.0
10/24/2008
To clarify - of course Curio does export OPML, as I say in an earlier post, but from items appropriate to the purpose - that is, mind-maps and text-outlines. You can't export the contents of an entire...
Curio 5.0
10/24/2008
Captain CowPie wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I tried Curio and really was impressed with it's abilities. I just don't know
>what I would use it for that would justify the price.
>
>
>Vince
>
>
As Steve says, ...
Together on the Mac
10/16/2008
From the developer's responses to comments on the DT blog, it looks as if Version 2 will handle tagging in a more sophisticated way (it wouldn't be difficult!) than the current version.
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Together on the Mac
10/8/2008
Thanks very much Steve.
Sounds good. I suppose the one other thing that many existing users are probably looking for in DT 2.0 is the ability to use tags efficiently. DT as it is now could be regarde...
Together on the Mac
10/6/2008
Interesting. Thanks, Jim.
Together on the Mac
10/5/2008
Jim
I've tried Together briefly and it certainly looked and felt nice. But I've stayed loyal to DevonThink Pro because I now have several thousand documents which DT handles with complete stability, ...
DevonThink Pro on sale at mupromo
9/22/2008
Thanks for this Steve - not because I want to purchase - I bought a while ago - but because the message I take from this is that the decks are being cleared for the long-awaited version 2.
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Mellel (on the Mac) is a programme that's often quoted as being highly suitable for non-fiction, though I haven't used it. And then there are the citation and reference managers, such as Sente and Boo...
I think you're right, Steve.
Personally, I blame JK Rowling. ;-)
Fiction is an "aspirational" market, or wannabe as you say. If the market for fiction-writing software is growing, so is the market ...
Ideaweaver
9/2/2008
Or Writer's Caf? (http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/) which has just had a thorough scrub and brush-up. For fiction only.
H