Franz Grieser

Advice needed from Mac owners 5/2/2007

Kenneth >I also forgot to mention Mellel as a potential >wordprocessor. Mellel is a decent word processor with a nice outlining feature. But in my opinion, Mellel is no reason to switch to the Mac ...

Advice needed from Mac owners 5/1/2007

Ah, I forgot Opal as an alternative outliner - sorry David. Franz

Advice needed from Mac owners 5/1/2007

Kenneth >1. Tinderbox (one of the reasons I want to get the Mac >notebook). I got tired of waiting for the Windows version. You´ll get Yoyimbo with the Tinderbox license. Yoyimbo is a nice clippi...

Featured on Bits du Jour next week 4/25/2007

Hi. Just got the newsletter from Bits du Jour. In the next days and weeks, they will bring among others: ° UltraRecall ° IdeaMason ° Backup4all ° ClipMate ° FolderMatch ° Auction Sentry ° Act...

Organising the organisers 4/3/2007

Stephen. GoalEnforcer Hyperfocus sounds interesting. Can you tell me what the main differences between GoalEnforcer Hyperfocus and the basic GoalEnforcer tool is? The only difference I found on the ...

Poll 2: Now it is easier: You can add three applications to your computer! 3/25/2007

My list for Windows: * Ideamason * Mind Genius Business * Infoselect (or Zoot 32bit) My list for Mac OS X: * Scrivener (definitely) * maybe Tinderbox (but only if the Mac is my main machine because...

Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book? 3/19/2007

Stephen >An opinion no one will agree with - I think for a large scale non-fiction writing project, >the best writing environment is MS Word, particularly its latest incarnation. Of >course you wou...

Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book? 3/19/2007

Hi. I think I should add two things concerning Ideamason. I wrote: >One more thing: You should have a fast Windows machine for >Ideamason 3.1, or a fast graphical adapter. IM3.x uses a lot of windo...

Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book? 3/18/2007

Thomas >you were a proponent of IdeaMason. >What made you to switch to Mac/Scrivener, if I can ask? I have to use Windows machines for my work. And there I use Ideamason for non-fiction projects ...

Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book? 3/18/2007

Hugh. We seem to have similar preferences. I also use Scrivener on my Mac (I also thought about recommending it here). Franz

Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book? 3/18/2007

Cassius >I'm about to start writing a book, if I can ever get the energy to be in a non-prone >position. The book (I sure hope it's longer than a pamphlet!) will have a very short >bibliography (...

Look what I just found on SourceForge: A dose of DOS 3/12/2007

Cassius. Thanks for the info. Franz

Look what I just found on SourceForge: A dose of DOS 3/10/2007

Cassius >See more at >http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 . > >Maybe GrandView will arise in its full glory. Just for curiosity's sake: Why do you need Dosbox for running Grandvie...

Export=>Import=>Export=>... from PIM to PIM to ... 2/15/2007

Cassius >So, it seems that one has, perhaps, four choices: >1. Stay with software >that has a long-term future, that is, it can be expected to have future updates to keep >it current with new ver...

Infoselect - sorting bin 2/13/2007

Daly >Franz, please forgive my delay in responding -- an oversight on my part. No problem :-) >You get the >sorting bin by using Control F6. > >Once you have the sorting bin you can drag topics ...

Infoselect - sorting bin 2/8/2007

Daly. In the ADM thread, you mentioned the sorting bin in Infoselect. >>I cannot believe I am saying this, but if InfoSelect had a reliable set of metadata columns, >>hoisting, and cloning, I would...

Outliner to find associations 1/18/2007

Stephen >I wonder if this is a facility that Tinderbox (for the Mac) has... I am afraid Tinderbox does not have that capability. (at least, I couldn't find it - speaking about the current 3.6.1 rel...

Outliner to find associations 1/18/2007

Sebastien >What I would love is an outliner able to propose me *associations* on the >fly. Indeed, when I write, I constantly gather some keywords out of my new text and use >them to do a manual se...

Ideamason 3.0 released 1/17/2007

Hi. Ideamason 3 has just been released. I have been involved in beta testing over the last 2 weeks, and I must say - once again - that the developers have been extraordinarily responsive to suggesti...

What publishing software do you use? 1/13/2007

Stephen. >>I work for a publisher. We do not do our own typesetting, but farm it out to pros. Most of them, it seems, are shifting to InDesign (from Quark), and I know for a fact that it can accept l...

What publishing software do you use? 1/13/2007

Cassius. >>A suggestion which you must know: Try asking book publishers, particularly ones who sometimes publish authors’ works “as-is” without typesetting (i.e., in the file format the author sent)...

What publishing software do you use? 1/13/2007

Graham. Thanks for the links. >>On Open Office, and I suspect you were unlucky with it, as it has a reputation of being more stable with long documents than Word. In fact, I was completely surprise...

What publishing software do you use? 1/12/2007

Hi. There is one thing I forgot: The software should run on Windows or Mac OS X (either System 9 or 10.4). Thanks, Franz

What publishing software do you use? 1/12/2007

Hi. This may be a bit off-topic (OTOH, I am sure a lot of people here create output that goes to a printer or to a web site): What kind of publishing tools do you use? I am particularly interested ...

Starting fresh 1/10/2007

Hi. >- Zoot: my favorite means of >gathering random bits of information >- OneNote 2007 when it comes out: for >assembling data into projects >- Brain Storm: for rapid note-taking and brain >storm...

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