Stephen Zeoli
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Any Windows users here ?
9/1/2017
Hi, Graham,
Two things:
First, is Ariadne still being developed or are you just using a legacy version from years ago?
Second, I've been using version 9 of TheBrain and I haven't found it to be bu...
Any Windows users here ?
9/1/2017
I use both platforms. While I'm Mac for personal use, at the place I work we use Windows 7 PCs. So I probably spend 75% of my computer time on Windows. I'd guess that one reason it seems so many of us...
I read the first edition as a paper book. I have the second edition as a PDF. I enjoyed reading the former, but haven't gotten far in the latter. It is really a philosophy on how to think about using ...
I emailed Steve at Reinvented Software with a question and I also asked him about the design philosophy behind Keep It. He confirmed that it is intended to be more note-centric. Here is what he said (...
Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement
8/21/2017
You are right, Hugh, if your primary use of Ulysses is writing longer-form pieces (as does David Hewson). What I'm looking for in a Ulysses replacement are these attributes:
- plain text/markdown edi...
Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement
8/20/2017
That's disturbing. I am running it okay on Windows 7, but haven't tried 10. Would like to hear what support has to say.
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
Following this discussion, last week I installed Notebo...
Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement
8/20/2017
Ulysses exports documents not just in different file formats (PDF, ePub, Plain Text, HTML, DocX), it also has several different styles depending on what type of document you're exporting. It is really...
Paul,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I don't dispute the general accuracy of your comment about Keep It just being a rebranding of Together, but I think the developer has shifted the fo...
Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement
8/18/2017
I've been looking for a replacement for Ulysses (due to its change to subscription model -- just adding this in case someone reads this months from now without the benefit of the long thread about Uly...
This Ulysses deal is still bothering me. It feels like a huge obfuscation on the part of the "Soulmen." First, of course, is the misleading pricing issue -- clearly intentional. In his Medium article ...
I was just reading Max's take on the change to subscription for Ulysses:
https://medium.com/building-ulysses/why-were-switching-ulysses-to-subscription-47f80b07a9cd
Interesting but he never acknowle...
I was just checking out the comments on the "new" Ulysses on the App Store. Seems evenly split between users eager to support Ulysses and those who hate the move to subscription. What I found odd is t...
Right you are, Prion. Much like a graphic designer pays an annual subscription for Adobe Design Cloud, Hewson pays for the tools of his craft. And I certainly understand and respect that attitude.
Y...
The author David Hewson, one of Ulysses's biggest fans, offers a perspective opposite of mine:
https://davidhewson.com/2017/08/11/the-new-ulysses-subscription-plan-is-a-wonderful-idea/
Steve Z.
I too pay the fee for Tinderbox, but that is really a hybrid sort of arrangement. It's not a subscription. It's more of an extended upgrade fee. Also -- as you imply, Paul -- there's a kind of (wink, ...
Subscriptions can only work for some developers early on. Imagine if they all do it.
If all the important apps I use go to subscription models, it will cost me hundreds of dollars a year for those s...
Christian Tietze presciently discusses this possibility on his blog a year ago:
http://christiantietze.de/posts/2016/07/app-pricing-subscription/
Steve Z.
I saw their announcement on Twitter and tried to link to the blog article, but it appears jammed up. Probably everyone trying to access it -- and complain -- at once.
Even at $20 a year, I won't sub...
Several years ago I wrote a comparison of TheBrain (known then as PersonalBrain) and Tinderbox at my blog:
https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/tinderbox-vs-personalbrain-grudge-match-o...
The last Webinar they had, the presenter used version 9 for the first time, so I knew they were getting close with it.
The one thing version 9 is missing that I find so useful in version 8 is the abi...
TickTick steadily improves
8/8/2017
I've toyed with TickTick in the past, but didn't quite catch on with it. But this time around, I am clicking with it. The feature that pushed me into using TickTick is the ability to forward an email ...
Another outliner has apparently bitten the dust. Tree 2 had a somewhat unique function of growing an outline sideways, not unlike Ginkgo. I wrote a review for Mac AppStorm six years ago:
http://mac.a...
Aquaminds NoteTaker 4?
8/2/2017
That is good news. I wondered if the Aquaminds folks would see an opportunity with the demise of CircusPonies Notebook. It is kind of weird to announce a partially done website, though.
Fingers cross...
Scrivener 3 in the pipeline
7/27/2017
Just saw the blog post over at Literature & Latte. Scrivener 3 is slated for release later this year. No details on what's new other than updates for new technologies and a streamlining of the UI. Kei...
CRIMPers = prospective time multipliers?
7/12/2017
This thread is such a perfect example of what makes this forum special and why I value the people here so much!
Steve Z.