Dr Andus
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I'm also wary of cloud-based services because of their revenue model. Here is my nightmare scenario:
Eventually you end up paying for the fact of being locked into a cloud service where you pay ever-...
I'm afraid I'm less positive about this direction than you are. I'm concerned that this rush towards cloud-based applications will impoverish the PIM world. My sense is that cloud-based apps have fewe...
Bookmark Docs at 'bitsdujour'
7/7/2012
I did give Bookmark Docs a try (as it's on sale today) but I wasn't immediately won over. It's based on an interesting idea but I think the execution isn't quite there. It would be nice to have an app...
New User - Old Questions
7/7/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Not inexplicable at all. Scrivener is targeted to writers and all
>its features are focused around that goal. It is not a general content organiser.
I agree with Alexand...
Bookmark Docs at 'bitsdujour'
7/7/2012
pereh wrote:
>The digital dog-ears, 'Bookmark Docs', will be featured in 'Bits du Jour' within the
>next days. It has reached version 4, and supports more that a dozen applications so
>far.
Pereh, ...
Dr Andus wrote:
>As luck would have it, DOpus is coming up
>42% off on http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/directory-opus-10/
Speaking of DOpus, I can highly recommend Andy's (of The "Other Manual") ...
Dr Andus wrote:
>critStock wrote:
>>Dr. Andus: DOpus has the flat view, but there is also a "Group By"
>setting. Right click
>>in the lister, click on "Group By" and select "None." Also note
>the o...
You can also drag and drop files into Whizfolders but it's probably not as elegant as UltraRecall and doesn't offer as many options for further analysis and annotation.
Another option could be Planz....
Dr Andus wrote:
>Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>>Well, somebody would eventually make a product for
>this, no?
>>
>>http://idonethis.com/
>>
>Has anyone here tried this? There is very
>little info on...
Retrospective outlining
6/30/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>The other interesting application for this feature would be the
>quick restructuring of large texts.
I'm assuming that's what Sense might be for, though I haven't been able to spend...
Retrospective outlining
6/30/2012
Regarding "live outlining" (having an outline created according to headings of a text as you write) and "reverse outlining" (developing an outline for an existing document retrospectively), I'm hearin...
NVivo 10 launched
6/28/2012
Cassius wrote:
>Thank you for the explanation. Considering the price of the software, isn't there
>more to it?
Well, yes, of course, there are other features (such as the automating of analysis of ...
NVivo 10 launched
6/28/2012
Cassius wrote:
>Interesting. Do these applications try to do it all automatically, or is the user
>deeply involved in determining the categories and judging what belongs in a category
>and what doe...
NVivo 10 launched
6/28/2012
critStock wrote:
>Incidentally, since this genre of software has come up, I note that the newest version
>of the one I use, Atlas.ti 7, has just come out, also: www.atlasti.com
Just saw this blog p...
NVivo 10 launched
6/27/2012
Cassius wrote:
>Well, it looks like there are some statistically oriented people in our group. Not
>having done work in the area of categorizing data, I can only guess that the software
>discussed ...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/27/2012
Surfulater sale is on today:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/surfulater/
NVivo 10 launched
6/27/2012
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software geared towards the academic (and other) social science research markets. It's mainly for "coding," which in qualitative analysis lingo means "categorising...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/25/2012
Having said all this, I'm quite satisfied with Surfulater as a basic tool for capturing web pages and their content and storing them in a hierarchical system. However its analytical capabilities are m...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/25/2012
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>And what do you do with them after you have pasted them into CT? Does CT export to a
>wordprocessing program?
CT doesn't export directly into a wordprocessing program (it ca...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/25/2012
P.S. Perhaps I should add that I use Surfulater strictly for one type of data only: and that is web pages and web sites that relate to my empirical data. I don't use it for academic content. For acade...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/25/2012
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>Perhaps it is just I but I am dashed if I can export any of the web snippets to anything
>much less a Word file. What is the point of storing this retrieved data if I cannot...
Surfulater sale coming up
6/24/2012
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/surfulater/
Noteliner 3.4.7a
6/23/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>please send it
>to me (noteliner.ap[at]gmail.com) so I can make it available.
Sorry, I butchered the email. It should be noteliner.app[at]gmail.com
Noteliner 3.4.7a
6/23/2012
Just spotted this request by the developer on the Noteliner website:
>For people just starting out it can be helpful to have templates or examples. If you have a template, or example of how you use N...
Jot Plus Notes -- moribund
6/23/2012
Mark wrote:
>
>A forum is also where would-be customers see all the problems with your software and
>decide to go elsewhere ... ;-)
I think the benefits of having a forum far outweigh this risk. Yo...