Dr Andus
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Final Draft 9
10/16/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
>Zettelkasten software in contrast would be like the equivalent of a
>massive filing cabinet full of thousands of index cards.
... with an accompanying library catalogue system (I sho...
Final Draft 9
10/16/2014
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I wonder if any of these index card programmes also fall into the
>Zettelkasten software category
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5298/0/zettelkasten-softwar...
yosemite wrote:
http://www.moo.do
> but workflowy was tempting me and now moo.do is even more so.
Thanks for this, interesting development... I'm a big WorkFlowy fan, so I'm not sure what I see th...
Final Draft 9
10/15/2014
Thanks for that, Hugh!
Hugh wrote:
If index card apps are of interest to you, Dr A., here is a list:
>http://list.ly/list/Eum-index-card-apps. (Story O, listed there, is
>another wannabe-scriptwriter...
Final Draft 9
10/14/2014
@Hugh
Thanks for your thoughts. I'm a bit too busy to trial it just now, but I guess I'll just have to take v. 9 for a test drive before the deal expires on Saturday...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>...
Final Draft 9
10/14/2014
Does anyone here use Final Draft 9? They are doing a promotion for Scrivener users, so FD9 is USD99.00 instead of the usual USD249.99 until 18 Oct 2014. That just piqued my curiosity, especially as F...
Markdown vs WSYWYG
10/11/2014
Here is something (haven't had a chance to try it yet) that is both Markdown and WYSIWYG:
Marko Editor
http://marko-editor.com/
Chromebook Apps?
9/28/2014
An interesting review on the Chromebook experience by Rui Carmo of Tao of Mac:
"My Deep, Dark Secret"
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/09/28/1940#my-deep--dark-secret
Chromebook Apps?
9/12/2014
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Android apps have this kind of "peeping" tendencies, as Bill
>(MadAboutDana) has commented elsewhere.
all Evernote apps, including web, provide a Share button
>enabling on...
hddb file search (windows)
9/11/2014
MenAgerie wrote:
>DocFetcher
>includes a pane with the
>search text highlighted; Which I find helpful for tracking down
>half remembered quotes.
I think FileSearchy can do that too: http://www.filese...
Chromebook Apps?
9/11/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
I'm not an active Evernote user, but apparently Evernote has just
>produced the first ever Android app that will work on Chromebooks.
Well, I just tried to install and launch it on my...
Chromebook Apps?
9/11/2014
I'm not an active Evernote user, but apparently Evernote has just produced the first ever Android app that will work on Chromebooks. But it looks like one will need a premium account to use it offline...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/11/2014
Paul Korm wrote:
>Same here ... reading Alex's essay I kept thinking "ConnectedText".
Actually the whole category of Zettelkasten software is focused on this problem of creating and managing a person...
LinkStash is on sale (50%) today for a few more hours...
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/linkstash/
Chromebook Apps?
9/9/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
On the topic of Chromebooks, I'm finding that the Google Drive cloud is
>not terribly reliable.
Looks like the problem was not with Google Drive itself, but with the syncing between t...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
jimspoon wrote:
>DrAndus - as I read the article I was wondering how well ConnectedText
>would fit the ideal "personal knowledge base" the author was describing.
> I would be interested to know what y...
regarding timeline software, the following discussion may contain some further suggestions:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2503/0/historical-timeline-modelling
drm vorlock wrote:
>The event tracker of Outliner-4D looks like it might do I want, but I'm
>put off by the software's premium price combined with its apparent
>abandonment and lack of mantenace updat...
Chromebook Apps?
9/3/2014
On the topic of Chromebooks, I'm finding that the Google Drive cloud is not terribly reliable. I would save a plain text file directly to Google Drive via the Caret app or drop a couple of small image...
I just noticed that O4D is on sale right now for USD49.00. That's the lowest I've seen, in case someone has been waiting for a promotion. Otherwise it's an ageing bit of software, at the regular price...
One-pane outliner for academic writing
8/27/2014
Charlie wrote:
>The other one is WhizFolder
>although it has two-pane. But the deluxe version has a view choice
>by which I can view the whole outline including the note in a separated
>window just l...
One-pane outliner for academic writing
8/25/2014
>Posted by Charlie, Aug 24, 2014 at 08:20 PM
>> I am seeking a one pane outlining tool. I need to add
>tables,equations,and short analysis
>> under each bullet most often and at last make it a conten...
jaslar wrote:
He said in the letter that they hit their revenue goals. Sometimes I
>think that it's not a bad thing to write a fine piece of software and
>have it do all right, rather than be the next...
Prion wrote:
Maybe I am wrong but I read this mail as an indication that Gingko may
>not be profitable enough to support two people, which (if correct) might
>not be the fault of the Gingko team per s...
Change in hardware/change in software?
8/21/2014
P.P.S. If your privacy concerns are about remaining totally anonymous towards Google, then probably a Chromebook would be the wrong choice, as it is so deeply integrated with one's Google account (unl...