Dr Andus
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Franz Grieser wrote:
>b) clipboard enhancing - e.g. Ditto
My main use of clipboard extenders is a) cleaning up copied text from PDFs before pasting into CT, and b) as a back-up service, should I lose...
Storybook Pro 4.0 is out
11/1/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>Story Lite and Story Turbo
>http://www.storylite.com/
>http://www.storyturbo.com/
I see that Story Lite is no longer free. It's described as "price dropped to 95c!" and "buy intro of...
Storybook Pro 4.0 is out
11/1/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>As I found my "intelligent cork board for index
>cards" in Outline 4D/StoryView 2.0, I'm no longer looking, but just for the record,
>here is another (new) offering in this area:
>S...
Notecase Pro is coming soon at Bits du Jour
10/29/2012
Thanks for the clarification, Alexander. (Although I didn't get the bit about the violin, I'm rubbish at music ;)
Notecase Pro is coming soon at Bits du Jour
10/29/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>In reality, all outline items ('nodes') have notes, even though they may
>be empty. As far as I know there isn't a way to show on the outline/columns which nodes'
>notes...
Notecase Pro is coming soon at Bits du Jour
10/29/2012
I like the easy Bonsai import. I could see this as a companion to Bonsai, for doing some more sophisticated ordering of an outline using the "mark and gather" function (which sadly I can't test in the...
Any.do
10/28/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>It's available for both Android and
>iPhone (and Chrome), with web interface in the works. It has a very minimalistic
>interface, which does appeal to me.
Alexander Deliyannis wrot...
Windows 8 Pro, outliners and PIMs
10/27/2012
Cassius wrote:
>*ZipMagic made zipped folders look and work EXACTLY like
>ordinary folders. No extracting or re-zipping needed. I really miss it.
Note sure if it's exactly the same functionality b...
Windows 8 Pro, outliners and PIMs
10/26/2012
Franz Grieser wrote:
>CRIMPing only applies to outlining, info storage and writing
>software (or hardware) not to operating systems ;-)
Franz - thanks for saving me from myself (and Steve Ballmer :)
Windows 8 Pro, outliners and PIMs
10/26/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I would add that you should NEVER change your operating system during a mission
>critical period, especially when the new OS is still fairly new.
Good point. In fact a ...
Windows 8 Pro, outliners and PIMs
10/26/2012
Thanks Jon - I was almost tempted by the knock-down price of GBP24.99... That looks incredibly cheap (or desperate :) for a new operating system!
Windows 8 Pro, outliners and PIMs
10/26/2012
Does anyone have any experience regarding the impact on the kinds of desktop software discussed here of a Windows 8 Pro upgrade (without a hardware upgrade, i.e. without a touch screen, using a tradit...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I need to stop myself from creating a link every chance I get. Linking everything
>possible is neither necessary nor productive in my view.
Although I do subscribe to that view...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>In an outliner, the (limited) outline is a starting frame of
>obvious structure, to which one can create 'exceptions', e.g. cloned items or links
>to other points in the...
Steve,
many thanks for the review. If by any chance you're (or anyone else is) totally bored now and don't know what to blog about after this ;-) a review series I'd be interested in is a comparison ...
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Thanks also to Dr Andus for the very useful
>complementary tips.
You're welcome...
> I believe that CT would have actually faired rather poorly in
>such a comparison, ...
Storybook Pro 4.0 is out
10/23/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>this software is
>much closer to the huge virtual corkboards we talked about here
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3934/
>for what it does, it is for me mor...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
10/20/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>BTW, one arcane benefit of owning both StoryView 2.0 and Outline 4D (which are almost
>exactly the same) is that you are able to run two instances of the software (though not
>of th...
Document Management Software Question
10/20/2012
pereh wrote:
>I got that mail, too. After installation, try to add a PDF file to Benubird via explorer
>right-click, and the buttons will work. It even seems they have managed integration
>with Dire...
Storybook Pro 4.0 is out
10/19/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>I’ve been looking for a solution for plotting multiple story lines in a top-down manner, possibly with a single-screen overview (yes, still for my dissertation…). I had hi...
Document Management Software Question
10/19/2012
Glen Coulthard wrote:
>Debenu's
>Benubird PDF Pro was a good start to a PDF management solution, but it was never
>finished properly (still quite buggy). The developers released it as a free tool an...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
10/18/2012
One unusual feature of StoryView/Outline 4D is that you can indent or move around outline items irrespective of their place in the hierarchy and independently from their parents or their children. E.g...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
10/18/2012
BTW, one arcane benefit of owning both StoryView 2.0 and Outline 4D (which are almost exactly the same) is that you are able to run two instances of the software (though not of the same file), which i...
Celtx -- Anyone aware of this program?
10/17/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>[Outline 4D is] part of a very small club of
>>outliners that can do
>inline notes (UV Outliner, Inspiration and ??), so it might be
>>good for adding...
Software Recommendation (Onenote vs. Others)
10/17/2012
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I like Quant's suggestion of using a powerful PDF editor
>(like PDF Xchange Viewer, which is amazingly good).
I just had a bit of a problem with viewing a PDF in Firefox with t...