Franz Grieser

You need a different view on your outline - a corkboard with arrangeable index cards 1/2/2011

Edwin. For my eyes, that looks like a 1:1 clone of Scrivener. Without having given your Word add-in a thorough testing: I'll stick with the original. Franz

Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday 1/2/2011

Hi. The BdJ day for Goalscape will be January, 4. At least, that's what they tell you when you subscribe to notify@bitsdujour.com. For those who miss the BdJ day: To get a 20 percent rebate on the f...

Info Select 10 is out now 12/24/2010

Hi. I must confess that I do not understand what's going on at Miclog. Stripping features that are essential for a PIM and claiming that the users wanted that - that's beyond me. Franz

Info Select 10 is out now 12/23/2010

Hi. Info Select 10 has just been released. The new features are described here: http://miclog.com/software/Beta-Features/is10bfeatures.html The most important ones: ribbons (as in Office 2007/2010),...

My Scrivener 2.0 review 12/10/2010

Great review. And I agree with you and Hugh: 10 points out of 10 is fully justified. Thanks, Franz

Anyone else use XMind...? 12/2/2010

Hi. I use it for brainstorming and as an aid in decision-making. Franz

November, 8: Devonthink on MacUpdate Promo: 50% off 11/8/2010

Hi. Devonthink and Devonthink Pro are sold for half the price on www.macupdatepromo.com, on Nov, 8, only. Prices are $25 and $40, respectively. Franz

Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday 10/28/2010

Hi. Yesterday evening, I used Goalscape to map a business project and a private long-term goal. I found the software easy to use - as long as one sticks to the mouse. What I was missing were keyboa...

Curio review up at Mac AppStorm 10/28/2010

Thanks, Steven. I never gave Curio a try because I thought that it required a huge screen to fully exploit its potential - the 12" screen of my writing machine seemed to me too small. I just applied...

Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday 10/27/2010

Hi. @skylark: What exactly is it you do not like about the software? Instead of writing twice "as said, I could tell them some but haven?t got the time", you could easily have written 2 sentences abo...

Writing tool for MacOs, or for Windows-a question. 10/26/2010

Hi Steve. I've also been checking daily for your review of Curio :-) Franz

Very Off Topic: Can anyone recommend a good netbook? 10/16/2010

Sorry, I was too fast. Both netbooks have excellent keyboards and long battery life. In both machines, it is easy to replace the original 1 GB of RAM by a 2 GB module. With the Ideapads, you have t...

Very Off Topic: Can anyone recommend a good netbook? 10/16/2010

Hi Stephen. I know the Lenovo Ideapad 10e and the Samsung NC-10. I'd recommend either of them. Off course, both have been replaced by newer models about which I cannot say anything substantial. Fran...

DevonThink alternative? 8/27/2010

Hugh. I just took a look at the https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Text+Analysis+Tools list. The list tools comparable to Textanz - e.g. TextSTAT and Wordstat. So, you're right: Textanz is miss...

DevonThink alternative? 8/27/2010

Hugh >Curiously the single piece of pure desktop >text-analysis software that I'd previously heard of, Textanz, isn't mentioned in >the list on the second link. Textanz is aimed at writers, not co...

Outliner/Note-taker with spreadsheet view 7/8/2010

Hi. >Franz -- Good question regarding InfoQube. My personal experience is >that it is not yet ready to be a "trusted system." I experienced some data loss awhile >back and decided to wait for the p...

Outliner/Note-taker with spreadsheet view 7/8/2010

Glen. Obviously, you are aware of InfoQube (former SQLNotes) as you wrote a review about it. May I ask why you didn't consider IQ in your quest? Franz

Curiousity: InfoSelect 10 6/28/2010

Steve. You're probably right. After having purchased many upgrades since the 90s, I decided last year to leave IS behind me. In fact, I only opened IS 2007 (or 9.x) twice this year to check something...

Two new entries in my Tinderbox Chronicles 5/24/2010

A huge "thank you" from one of those who have been following your posts about Tinderbox :-) Franz

So, what do you folks do? 5/4/2010

Thanks for the kind offer, Laurence. I am about to switch most of my PCs to Windows 7. So a software that is no longer under development is probably not the best solution :-) Franz

So, what do you folks do? 5/2/2010

Lawrence >For my sins, I've also become a kind of clearing >house for information about Blackwell/Bekon Idealist, a venerable free-form text >oriented database. What has become of it? I find a num...

So, what do you folks do? 5/1/2010

Hi. I work as a freelance creator (newspaper and online articles, non-fiction books, translations, concepts), coach and trainer. In my spare time I write short stories and a novel. Franz

Software Feature Matrix 4/23/2010

Nice idea, Mauro. As the programs discussed here fall into different categories, I think it would be best to create a matrix for each of these categories (after all it does not make much sense to com...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/18/2010

Hi Edwin. I prefer the "text-based" look. The "shape-based" style looks nicer but adds more noise to the screen. Franz

Workflow of Dual CRIMPers -- those fortunate folks using both Macs and Windows PCs 4/7/2010

Cady >P.S. I'm trying my best to resist the >temptation of downloading Tinderbox... To be honest, the trial edition of TB is too limited (in my opinion) to give you a fair impression of the softwar...

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