Stephen Zeoli
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If anyone's interested, I wrote a review of Typora on my blog, including a 3-minute demo video:
https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/typora-renders-beautiful-documents/
An advantage Ty...
SheetPlanner Future Features
8/17/2018
I concur with what Paul said. It's an interesting concept, but hard to react to without further details.
Worth pursuing, I think.
Steve Z.
Causality ...
8/14/2018
Another card-based outlining story builder is Story O. I'm not endorsing it, just pointing it out for those who like to explore all options. Here's the website:
http://www.junglesoftware.com/products...
Note taking -- DaVinci style
8/1/2018
Interesting. I noted how all the entries start with a verb, as good to-do lists should.
Thanks for posting this.
Steve
Outlinely gets a (minor) update
7/26/2018
Outlinely is frustratingly close to being excellent, but like Luhmann, I just can't over the things that don't work like I would expect or hopeful. For instance, exporting an outline to .doc or .html ...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
To be clear, I understood that. I was just wondering if there are ways people have found to use printed documents... i.e. photo scanning a page or something like that.
Paul Korm wrote:
Printed docum...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
This looks like a great app, but I am curious about whether it has utility for working with printed documents, or is it just for PDFs?
Steve
informationtamers.com, mind-mapping.org
7/23/2018
Inspiration had two winning features that appealed to me:
1. It was much more than a mind map. It did diagramming in many modes. In fact, I think "mind map" was a style of diagram they added late in ...
Journaling, a simplistic view
7/21/2018
I've been intrigued by Diarly as well. It shows a lot of promise, but it's concept is that it allows you one page per day, which is different than most journals, in which you can create as many entrie...
MacJournal
7/20/2018
Just an FYI. I contacted Mariner Software again about MacJournal and got this response:
"Yes, we ran in to some delays but do plan on releasing an update in the near future."
Not sure that reassures...
Writer's log
7/18/2018
Hugh,
The developers have introduced an iOS app and it is very elegantly conceived (may still have a few bugs).
Steve
Hugh wrote:
I like what I've seen of Agenda. But two omissions from its feature...
Writer's log
7/18/2018
That's a great suggestion, Paul.
As an aside -- or maybe it isn't -- one of the developers, I believe, also worked on Findings.
Paul Korm wrote:
Perhaps Agenda would serve well as a writer's log? ...
Writer's log
7/17/2018
The author David Hewson explains how he uses Ulysses to keep a writing diary for his novels:
https://davidhewson.com/2016/09/07/how-to-manage-a-book-diary-in-ulysses/
Steve Z.
Dynalist gets an API
7/13/2018
I don't have that problem at all. Items delete just as one would expect.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I used Dynalist briefly before discovering that I could not delete
>anything I put into it. The shortcut ...
Zoot
7/13/2018
As evidence for my claim that Tom put everything and the kitchen sink into Zoot, just check out the home page:
http://www.zootsoftware.com/
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Zoot used to be my go-to information ...
Zoot
7/13/2018
Zoot used to be my go-to information manager, back when it only did plain text notes. It was a great app. I think Tom Davis broke Zoot when he created Zoot XT. He not only made it work with formatted ...
What is "ugly" software?
7/12/2018
The truth for me is that I preferred the old, ugly Tinderbox in a lot of ways.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I hate to post this, but early reviews of Tinderbox (on blogs)
>invariably had the words “ugl...
What is "ugly" software?
7/11/2018
Good question, Paul.
In my mind, if the software is unusual-looking, but otherwise well designed, it's quirky. If it is unusual-looking and not well designed, it is ugly.
I've read comments on othe...
SheetPlanner 1.0 Beta
7/11/2018
Congratulations on reaching this milestone. You've got great testers here.
Steve Z.
MacJournal
7/9/2018
Like Paul, I have yet to have any of the problems that others fear might happen with MacJournal. Also, Mariner updated their writing app Contour 2 in December, so the company isn't exactly extinct jus...
Thank you for your in-depth review.
I was an early adopter of MyBase almost 20 years ago, but I didn't like it because -- at least back then -- it was a modular program. You bought the basic applicat...
This is, of course, very subjective. I just don't find it as handy for building outlines and plans. Just as an example, you have to type three keys to zoom in on a topic: command, shift and F, which r...
The simple answer to the question posed in the topic title is, all of them. In fact, my whole CRIMPing world is based on finding a better outliner. Each of the common ones (for Mac), has its advantage...
MacJournal
7/6/2018
The amount of meta-data you can pack onto an entry is very impressive. And you can customize the info bar so you can see additional pieces of meta data. One word of caution: If you open the info panel...
An pretty darn good info bucket is TheBrain. It is so easy to drag almost anything into the plex to save it in the database. Yes, it is best if you have a place for it -- a parent "thought" -- but tha...