Randall Shinn
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- April 2007
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- 32
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- 1/24/2009
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Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>The power for any of application of this type is providing flexibility in viewing its
>contents. Outline view is great in many ways, but it is restrictive, as well.
>Tags/conte...
Ike Washington wrote:
>Steve
>
>I think you give a good description of some of Natara Bonsai's features.
When I was using a Palm I thought Bonsai was one of the best designed task management program...
Playing around with OmniFocus, Things, and The Hit List has made me consider in general several aspects of designing the interface for a task manager.
Single tasks don?t seem to be as difficult to so...
Where are the exciting developments?
1/22/2009
Chris Thompson wrote:
>The Mac environment is still going strong. OmniFocus 2.0 is in development,
>OmniOutliner 4.0 is (finally) in development. The Hit List was just released. Circus
>Ponies Noteb...
i use this
1/19/2009
I am finding "i use this" http://osx.iusethis.com/ to be a useful site for evaluating os x software. There you can see how many of the (I assume) relatively hip/geeky subscribers use various software ...
Intriguing new task-management software
1/13/2009
I'm a fan of Omni software, and I have purchased OmniOutliner, OmniFocus, and OmniPlan. I find OmniPlan good for planning complex projects.
The interface for OmniFocus has never quite clicked for me...
For those Mac users who have looked at OmniFocus and Things, the public-beta release of The Hit List has just been announced: http://www.potionfactory.com/blog/2009/01/08/hit-list-public-preview .
W...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
1/3/2009
I moved to OS X for music production, and because the system demands for what I am doing there are intense, I have tried to avoid using emulators and Windows programs on my Macs. While there are case...
Wiki for Fiction Writing
1/3/2009
Michael wrote: "I?m just soooo jealous of Scrivener owners, but darn it, I don?t own a Mac," and is curious about a good personal wiki program. Hate to add to the jealousy, but VoodooPad 4 http://flyi...
Fiction vs. Nonfiction writing/software
9/10/2008
Another Mac program that some people use for fiction writing is Journler http://journler.com/. It has many devoted users and a responsive developer. I think it was originally designed with keeping a j...
Curio 5.0
8/20/2008
Part of what looks so promising about Curio is that it is like a giant whiteboard on your screen. Not only can you generate text boxes, collapsible outlines, collapsible mind maps, various kinds of li...
Mac Software
4/18/2008
Stephen,
I am crimping away, having just made the switch. So far Eaglefiler, Curio, Circus Ponies Notebook, OmniOutliner Pro, and Scrivener have all seemed potentially valuable enough for me to licen...
Outliners and Spotlight
4/13/2008
Chris, thanks for clearing up the misconception, and for pointing out Leap and Together. As a new OS X user I'm finding it hard to keep up with the new applications being released that are designed to...
Outliners and Spotlight
4/13/2008
One of the great surprises of switching to OS X Leopard has been the usefulness of Spotlight, the operating system's built-in indexing and search utility. It works so well and quickly at finding and l...
New look at old, boring controversy
3/26/2008
Having just completed the switch from Windows to Mac, I found this discussion of the new Safari interesting. In 2006 Jeffrey Zeldman had a blog on Safari's superior handling of fonts and CSS. http://w...
OmniFocus
2/27/2008
Chris,
I am now busy setting up my new Mac Pro, and I agree wholehearted with your preference for Things over OmniFocus as a GTD/To Do manager. Omni is an excellent company, and I'm using OmniOutline...
OmniFocus
1/11/2008
43Folders called my attention to OmniFocus http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/, a new OS X program about to be released which is generating a lot of buzz as a GTD application. It looks gr...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Until Apple finds a way to run Windows applications without the customer having to buy
>Windows, users will probably continue to choose operating systems by the quality o...
Chris,
Thank you for your description of the Mac OS X system of storing application and system preferences and data. You hit the nail on the head about not feeling in control with Windows registry, a...
Jim wrote:
>That being
>said, I just switched from Windows XP to Mac OSX. There were two drivers for me. One was
>the availability of software on the Mac. I currently use DevonThink Pro for most of...
Moving information
11/27/2007
Recent discussions about possibly shifting operating systems (for any reason whatsoever) raises a perennial issue. After spending years putting information into one format or one software program, how...
Thanks Chris for your input.
I have read more than one article by tech reviewers who switched to Macs after trying both Vista and Leopard. It seems so strange to consider switching platforms (though ...
If you look at the Wikipedia list of PIMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers, it is clear that there are many more PIMs available for Windows than for the Mac.
But I h...
Software for organizing photos
11/12/2007
Ken wrote:
>Spend a few minutes
>reading the forum at thedambook.com. Peter knows a lot, and the community there is
>quite nice.
Thanks Ken. I went to this site, and I can already see that I will...
Software for organizing photos
11/12/2007
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll take a look at the programs suggested.
A wrinkle in my situation is that my wife is a professional artist who uses photography in the process of designing her pie...
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