Dr Andus
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Your top 3 tools?
3/11/2013
Chris Murtland wrote:
>1, Workflowy - It took me a while to warm up to this one, but with the
>>addition of an iPad and iPhone, being able to outline anywhere, at all
>>times, sold me on it. It has we...
Your top 3 tools?
3/9/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
Chris Murtland wrote:
>1, Workflowy - It took me a while to warm up to this one, but with the
>>addition of an iPad and iPhone, being able to outline anywhere, at all
>>times, sold me ...
Your top 3 tools?
3/9/2013
Chris Murtland wrote:
1, Workflowy - It took me a while to warm up to this one, but with the
>addition of an iPad and iPhone, being able to outline anywhere, at all
>times, sold me on it. It has weakn...
Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2011
3/8/2013
Cassius wrote:
Dr Andus or any of your fine folk:
>Will Fences keep icons in one place? When I change the resolution on my
>11" laptop screen and then change back many of the icons on the right
>side...
Debenu PDF Maximus for free today. I got it last time and I found it an overkill for my needs, but for 100% off I don't mind keeping it in the bag, just in case...
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/...
Collaborative online mind map with task management and calendar, in beta:
https://www.subtask.com/
Review here:
http://www.freewaregenius.com/subtask-combines-mind-mapping-with-task-management-and-cl...
Prion wrote:
>I evaluated Devonthink also as a candidate for the wiki, too, but
>although it knows some Wiki functionality (Wikilinks) it does not
>display backlinks, i.e. incoming links from other pa...
Your top 3 tools?
3/4/2013
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
>I love this app. It's really fast (compared e.g. to WriteMonkey). The
>only thing it's missing is the option to put notes.
I've totally fallen for FocusWriter, I've installed ...
Hi Cemski - welcome to the forum. Ultra Recall came to my mind as well, reading your specifications.
I just remembered that I came across a Mac-based academic workflow here before:
http://drosophiliac.com/2012/09/an-academic-notetaking-workflow.html
For comparison, here is mine (very similar, just d...
Prion wrote:
>I guess, the one thing I haven't quite decided on yet is where
>ultimately every piece of information is to be found in my system, the
>hub of my note-taking universe if you will. Right ...
Dr Andus wrote:
>How to model workflows and design toolchains? It can be drawn by hand or
>by using some kind of a concept mapping software like VUE. I like to
>save my VUE concept maps as PNG files a...
Prion wrote:
>I have already tried the two extremes and found out that neither of
>these approaches work for me:
>1) know one program well and use it for everything, even despite some
>weaknesses here...
Your top 3 tools?
3/1/2013
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
You may be interested to take a look at this blog:
>http://blog.scrybr.com/
>Some of these FW themes are really beautiful, but some may treat them as
>a sin against minimalism.
...
Your top 3 tools?
2/28/2013
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
>I love this app. It's really fast (compared e.g. to WriteMonkey). The
>only thing it's missing is the option to put notes.
Thank you for mentioning it. I've just had a very pr...
Your top 3 tools?
2/28/2013
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
1. ConnectedText - for keeping and managing notes and pieces of
>information
>2. Mendeley - for managing references and my pdf archive, and for
>annotating pdfs
>3. FocusWriter...
Your top 3 tools?
2/27/2013
Wayne K wrote:
1) PDF Revu. I spent several frustrating years trying to find a good
>PDF mark-up tool. Now that I've found it, it has truly changed the way
>I work. When I have to do a job I often ...
Your top 3 tools?
2/27/2013
BTW, thank you all for your replies. Some interesting combinations of tools came up here. It looks like the "3 tools" restriction was conducive to revealing some of the implicit workflows, which I fin...
Your top 3 tools?
2/27/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
>In the meantime I've upgraded to Adobe Reader XI to see if it makes a
>difference. It returns the same (incomplete) result, except now it
>includes 4 PDFs (instead of 3). But there is...
Your top 3 tools?
2/27/2013
MadaboutDana wrote:
>So at the very least, PDF-Xchange Viewer matches Adobe Reader X for
>convenience, accuracy and presentation. Add to that the fact that it
>also allows you to manipulate PDFs (by c...
Your top 3 tools?
2/27/2013
MadaboutDana wrote:
>3) Use Adobe Reader X (my favourite so far) to search for specific terms
>in all documents in the folder. Adobe Reader's Advanced Search function
>is ignored by most people, but i...
Your top 3 tools?
2/25/2013
P.S. The idea for this poll was to really restrict ourselves to the top 3 tools (and no more :)
Your top 3 tools?
2/25/2013
A variation on the software roll call. Perhaps it gives a different view of people's use of outliners. What are your top 3 (outliner, PIM, writing, note-taking) tools right now? Do they form a toolcha...
New Ipad, what apps to put on it?
2/19/2013
Some plain text apps (w/ Markdown) for iOS and OS X discussed in this blog post (plus a PDF maker):
http://savageminds.org/2013/02/15/living-in-a-plain-text-world-tools-we-use/
The following looked ...
Dr Andus wrote:
I've been fairly happy using the free WordExpander, however in some
>situations it does seem to slow down to the point of not being usable.
>It seems to be some sort of a conflict wit...