Franz Grieser

Miss the old VooDooPad? Yesterday

Hi Mark. Congratulations. Finally, an app that gives me Mac-envy (again). Any chance you create a Windows version of Mojopad this year? Best wishes Franz

Online information management using Typemill Yesterday

Thanks Bill. I was hoping you found a provider that pre-installed Typemill on your web space. Ionos does not offer that, neither does the provider that hosts my websites (All-inkl). I'll install...

Online information management using Typemill 5 days ago

Hi Bill. Thanks, this sounds really interesting. Could be the solution to something a member of a course I am giving right now asked for: a document hub where they could access docs I provide and...

Exsut: a local first, all in one life manager I built. Honest feedback welcome. 2 weeks ago

Hi Chris. Looks interesting. What puzzles me: Why are you emphasizing the encryption feature that much? Data is stored locally. Or do you have access to it? Best wishes

Exsut: a local first, all in one life manager I built. Honest feedback welcome. 2 weeks ago

Paul Korm wrote: >Thanks Chris >Where do we find Exsut? www.exsut.com

GetDoneNow - a focus timer that asks you to validate your focus every 5 minutes (feedback welcome) 4 weeks ago

Hello marcu. Interesting, indeed. Checking in fixed intervals whether one is still doing what he/she set out to do: That can be really helpful. However, when I do deep work (writing, planning, thin...

Appsumo discounts on two organizer/planner/to do apps - 3/30/2026

Hello Ken. I tested Bydesign last year. I liked the task planner but decided against it because there was no bidirectional sync between Bydesign and Outlook (looks like there is now). With Appsumo d...

The tech bro ecosystem 7/23/2025

Hi Bill. Interesting indeed. I thought DuckDuckGo was "only" a search engine. In fact it's much more: There is a browser and add-ins for Firefox, Chrome etc.. And there are not only versions for Win...

Summerfest 2025 has started 7/3/2025

Andy Brice wrote: >PerfectTablePlan? >>Please, tell us more about it :-) > >It isn't very CRIMPY! Basically a table planner for seated events: > >https://www.perfecttableplan.com/ > >Underneath the UI...

Summerfest 2025 has started 7/3/2025

Andy Brice wrote: >PerfectTablePlan? >>Please, tell us more about it :-) > >It isn't very CRIMPY! Basically a table planner for seated events: > >https://www.perfecttableplan.com/ Puh, no need for cr...

Summerfest 2025 has started 7/3/2025

Andy Brice wrote: >Just for complete clarity, I want to note that Hyper Plan development is >paused while we concentrate our finite development resources on our 2 >other products ( Easy Data Transform...

Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics? 6/10/2025

Lucine wrote: >...In theory, SiYuan also has a >built in flashcard (or maybe it was a plugin) but the functionality >overlaps with logseq and the latter is better in many ways (local md >files, whit...

Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics? 6/10/2025

Another candidate: ** Logseq ** runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android stores MD files locally has a flashcard feature Open Source I haven't really used Logseq but will give it a try.

Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics? 6/3/2025

Lucine wrote: >I too am looking for a software that has integrated spaced repetition, >and stores files as md locally, but is Windows/Linux instead. If anyone >knows something, please let me know. I'l...

Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics? 6/3/2025

nathanb wrote: >I'm not an academic, I'm an industrial project engineer. I use it >primarily as a project manager with inline project tasks as well as a >"long term knowledge tree" with embedded space...

Lunatask or Timestripe - anyone using either? 5/5/2025

Well. Looks like I am still a crimper. I am now test-driving Lunatask and will start testing Noteplan (the web edition and the iOS app) in a few days. Unfortunately, Noteplan is Apple-only plus the ...

Lunatask or Timestripe - anyone using either? 4/27/2025

Dormouse wrote: >I'd be interested to know which alternatives you considered and why you >rejected them I looked at most of the apps available over the last years. Most of them didn't click, I cannot...

Lunatask or Timestripe - anyone using either? 4/25/2025

Hi. I think about replacing my time and task-management system (Outlook calendar plus spreadsheet for todos) by one app that I can use on Windows and my iPhone/iPad. I looked into almost every...

Writing software with timeline generation? 4/14/2025

>So I'm not looking for a storyboard feature or a flow diagram feature. >This is a book about real events, and it needs to accurately portray >that person A was in place B at time C, so they could not...

Writing software with timeline generation? 4/14/2025

Hi Graham. I am not sure what you need the timeline feature for. There are several novel writing apps with a timeline feature. But I am not aware of one that comes at a pay-once price. An app some o...

Acreom 2/4/2025

Thanks, Bill. That's very helpful. After Obsidian kept freezing when I opened a particular vault, I started looking for an alternative. It turned out my problem was caused by a community plugin - afte...

Roam Research Status? 3/21/2024

satis wrote: >Obsidian just introduced a $48/yr Standard plan at half the price of its >old (now "Plus") plan that has some limitations (only one synced vault, >5Mb max file size, 1Gb total storage, o...

Note taker with embedded drawing and math capabiliy 3/21/2024

Not exactly free (for commercial uses), nor Open Source: Obsidian with Excalidraw. https://excalidraw.com/ Off course, you can use Excalidraw as a standalone app. You just need a note-taking app tha...

An indie app for Mac and iOS 2/27/2024

There is also a Windows app for 2.99 Euro.

Sentence outliner? 2/14/2024

Thanks Lucas. I was wondering what you meant by "linked style". I usually don't work in Word but most of my writer clients do. I find the "one sentence per paragraph" trick helpful to check sentence ...

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