Dr Andus
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"Explain Like I'm Five": Zettelkasten
4/24/2015
zoe wrote:
>So in your CT setup, it
>appears that you have a markup template when you create a new note.
Yes, the template is a plain text file with CT markup.
>the source of the quote
The highlig...
Elena wrote:
Hi! Actually Writage allows you to open and edit Markdown documents in
>Word , so you could write documents in Markdown and save files as .md
>files as well.
Elena, thanks for the clarif...
"Explain Like I'm Five": Zettelkasten
4/23/2015
zoe wrote:
>- each card (or digital note) is given a unique ID, typically a number
>or number/letter combination.
>- the numbering is based upon branching out or relatedness of concepts.
>So, a card a...
This one is a bit unusual: it looks like it allows you to convert a .docx file into a plain text file with markdown.
http://www.writage.com/
I don't fully get it, as my needs are normally to travel ...
Looking for fast online concept mapping
4/23/2015
Paul Korm wrote:
There is a JRE version of Vue -- though it is cranky and requires
>fiddling with Java security settings.
>https://vue.tufts.edu/VUEApplet/info.cfm?
Wow, that would have been great! U...
Looking for fast online concept mapping
4/22/2015
zoe wrote:
>This isn't pretty, but it might do the job for you:
>http://simplemapper.org/
Thanks, that looks perfect! I'll need to test it out tomorrow, to see how fast it can do the mapping.
Looking for fast online concept mapping
4/22/2015
Thanks, zoe,
Oinker looks interesting (only watched the video), but I'm really looking for something as close to VUE and the like as possible, basically a quick way to type text into boxes or ovals ...
Looking for fast online concept mapping
4/22/2015
Paul and PIMfan, thank you for your suggestions. I tried them both and they are quite similar. But they still seem to be more geared towards being drawing apps than brainstorming tools. They seem to m...
Looking for fast online concept mapping
4/21/2015
Are there any online equivalents to concept mappers like VUE, CmapTools and Scapple?
I mean that they are fast to use for brainstorming (as oppposed to services focusing on drawing pretty charts for...
Plain Text Journal
4/21/2015
jaslar wrote:
>the one thing I DO need and use (if not tags and cross-linking) is
>a powerful SEARCH tool. Am I correct in thinking this product does NOT
>offer that? Or have you tried it?
No, I have...
Plain Text Journal
4/20/2015
Not sure if this one was mentioned before:
https://github.com/maciakl/Plain-Text-Journal
Paul Korm wrote:
>So, is there a way to select a file linked with the code you posted
>above and tell CT to import that file?
It would be nice but I don't think so. If you click on the link it will j...
Paul Korm wrote:
You've undoubtedly mentioned this before (in that case a link would be
>enough), but could you explain your "bring them into CT" procedure?
Oh, with individual notes I normally only ...
Dr Andus wrote:
>Oops, the forum software mangled the CT command a bit
Curiously, the CT command was rendered correctly when I viewed it in my RSS reader (InoReader) in Firefox, but rendered incorrec...
Dr Andus wrote:
>[[$FILE:C:\Users\\Documents\My Dropbox\\*.*]]
Oops, the forum software mangled the CT command a bit. Let me try it another way:
[[$FILE:C:\Users\username\Documents\My Dropbox\folder...
zoe wrote:
Is there anything that has the power and flexibility of ConnectedText
>(image support, extremely robust markup options) but which I can access
>and/or update from my mobile device?
If you...
Another possibility that has just occurred to me is to get into the habit of storing most of the external files that CT links to on the cloud (maybe Google Drive or Dropbox), and then CT's footprint w...
zoe wrote:
Is there anything that has the power and flexibility of ConnectedText
>(image support, extremely robust markup options) but which I can access
>and/or update from my mobile device?
I've b...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
4/9/2015
Marcos D. wrote:
Enabling of plugins in WriteMonkey requires a donation to the
>developers; this would be my first donation of this kind. How much would
>be recommended ?
It's hard to come up with an...
article - Google Keep vs. Evernote vs. other notetaking tools? | ITworld - http://bit.ly/1NBOQYe
4/2/2015
Paul Korm wrote:
>or perhaps we have to save the note to Google Docs and apply a higher
>level or organization there.
That's what I do, though not in Google Docs. I 've started using Google Keep rec...
jimspoon wrote:
I mentioned Scrivener as having the nesting capability I was thinking of
>- but actually I was thinking about the Sense Editor. The nested text
>is referred to as a "viewpoint".
>
>ht...
You could sort of do some of this with ConnectedText, e.g. by using the inclusions feature, so that there is one document that is made to include all the other smaller documents, but it involves some ...
Analog Memory Desk
3/15/2015
There was a bit of discussion about it on HN as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9201807
Analog Memory Desk
3/14/2015
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Now I'm going to have to build one. The nice lady did provide
>instructions!
>Hm. Where did I put those toilet rolls...? This is trickier than it
>looks...!!!
I was inspired enou...
Analog Memory Desk
3/13/2015
MadaboutDana wrote:
>As an idea, that is rather stunning.
>Except for the poor trees.
I think the analog desk could be made sustainable a lot more easily than the mountains of smart phones, tables, P...