Dr Andus
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Musing on the Mac...
4/10/2017
Let's not forget the third option: Chrome OS (which is like Linux made easy) with web apps (WorkFlowy, Gingko, MindMup et al.), though there is also Caret for writing, an excellent offline text editor...
Workflowy Use
4/9/2017
Rawbytz posted an updated version of his "Clip to WorkFlowy" Chrome extension in the Chrome Web Store:
https://rawbytz.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/clip-to-workflowy-public-beta/
Why are tags considered binary?
3/31/2017
Paul Korm wrote:
>I think what you're looking for might be a concept for "attributes" or
>"properties": a {label, value} pair. This is the basis of XML, Apple's
>.plists, and so on. The "label" is s...
ConnectedText - moribund?
2/24/2017
So are you hoping that by calling it "moribund" on a public forum you will get Eduardo fix your specific bug more quickly?
I find that tactic a bit troubling. I don't know Eduardo's circumstances, bu...
Novlr - novel writing app
2/22/2017
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>who would want to spend $120 a year for less functionality
>than you get with Scrivener for twice the cost of the one-time purchase
>of Scrivener?
But how much did your Macbook ...
Novlr - novel writing app
2/20/2017
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>who would want to spend $120 a year for less functionality
>than you get with Scrivener for twice the cost of the one-time purchase
>of Scrivener?
People who can't install Scriv...
Novlr - novel writing app
2/19/2017
Has anyone tried this?
http://novlr.org
This could be a new moment in the history of taking reading notes electronically: using the Samsung pen to take a screenshot of a piece of text and save it to Google Keep, where it's OCR-ed and become...
Markdown Tree
2/8/2017
Paul Korm wrote:
Interesting. I'm leery of sites that cannot be explored without first
>authenticating with Google credentials -- I've no doubt the "awesome
>team based in London" is chill, but one ...
Dr Andus wrote:
tsahar wrote:
>>I have always found note-taking to be a "disruptive" activity -- even
>>when I do it with a pencil (or highlighter) on a physical book or
>>printed paper -- as it surel...
tsahar wrote:
>I have always found note-taking to be a "disruptive" activity -- even
>when I do it with a pencil (or highlighter) on a physical book or
>printed paper -- as it surely interrupts the fl...
Dynalist getting even better
12/27/2016
I haven't looked at them for a while but the new features are very impressive. I guess they pinched their main concept from WorkFlowy, but now they may need to worry about WorkFlowy pinching some of t...
There are wikis and blogging platforms that you could self-host. For me the problem would be that note-taking is supposed to be quick, so it does not disrupt the reading or research process too much. ...
Evernote Privacy Policy Changes
12/18/2016
dan7000 wrote:
>What software are people here adopting as an alternative to Evernote for
>cross-platform, muti-client/synced web clipping, PDF tagging, and
>notetaking?
I've managed to avoid both Eve...
And there is also a Youtube video:
https://youtu.be/p31I2I2Jshs
and some forum discussions about the development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/51xnls/outlining_with_cards/
http:...
The documentation page is worth checking out as well, they explain the concept behind the product:
http://ultraoutliner.com/documentation/page?path=concept.md&locale=en
Haven't tried this yet but looks interesting:
"ultra_outliner provides an open and accessible canvas for adding and managing story elements as cards. With an intuitive panning and zooming workspace, ...
Gingko Desktop - beta testers wanted
11/4/2016
More here:
http://blog.gingkoapp.com/2016/11/04/gingko-desktop-ready-for-testing/
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
* Is based on files, so all your data is stored locally.
* You can open, save,...
Yet another Markdown editor...
10/19/2016
Here is another browser-based online/offline Markdown editor: Classeur, from Ireland, I believe.
This might be the most sophisticated one I've seen so far (or at least up there with Calmly Writer):
...
TreeProjects is now free
10/12/2016
jaslar wrote:
Not bad, a very capable tool chest. The necessary things for me:
>
>- Does it have a word count option?
I don't know, but that is an easy problem to solve with the Autohotkey script (us...
TreeProjects is now free
10/10/2016
"TreeProjects is now free"
http://personaldatabase.org/treeprojects-is-now-free
hat tip:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29403.msg403187#msg403187
Evernote yet again
10/7/2016
Dr Andus wrote:
>Try this link instead:
>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-is-in-deep-trouble-2015-10
>
>it looks like the article was originally from OCT 4, 2015.
No wonder I had a sense of...
Evernote yet again
10/7/2016
MadaboutDana wrote:
Wow, that was some seriously fast footwork by Evernote's lawyers.
>Clearly they can still afford them ;-)
It's more like the Herald realised that the article looked too similar to...
Evernote yet again
10/7/2016
Try this link instead:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-is-in-deep-trouble-2015-10
it looks like the article was originally from OCT 4, 2015.
Evernote yet again
10/7/2016
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>10 overseas offices? For a notetaking app?
Yeah, that's definitely a strange one...