xtabber
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Interesting discussion, and probably costly for me.
I am at an age where I find it easier to print some kinds of documents (e.g., academic papers) and work from paper copies. I’ve considered...
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12/21/2017
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Scrivener 3 is on the way…
12/4/2017
Hugh wrote:
As I've written before in this forum, I lost 40,000 words in MS Word
>about ten years ago. For some reason, the back-up was lost too. It
>remains probably the worst thing that has happene...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
12/4/2017
Graham Rhind wrote:
>However, the book is updated regularly and it has expanded to
>the current 1000+ chapters and 3000+ pages, which Word can manage but
>which it manages only slowly.
What version...
What is the oldest application you use?
11/17/2017
Natara Bonsai provides a perfect example of why one might actually want to purchase software that will no longer be developed or supported by the author. It is still perfectly functional, and probabl...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
11/17/2017
Scrivener 3 for macOS will be released on Monday, 20th November 2017. Scrivener 3 is a major—and paid—update to Scrivener...
Scrivener 3 will cost $25 for existing users of Scrivener for ...
What is the oldest application you use?
11/11/2017
Dr Andus wrote:
xtabber wrote:
>>John McPhee has used Kedit
>>exclusively to write all of his books for nearly 30 years, as he
>>discusses at length in “Draft No. 4,” which many in this
...
What is the oldest application you use?
11/10/2017
I’ve been using the Kedit text editor from Mansfield Software Group on a daily basis since 1985. Kedit is based on the IBM mainframe Xedit and is line-oriented (most text editors are buffer-ori...
The developer has the following warning for PageFour users:
"Atomic Scribbler is not a replacement product for PageFour. Where PageFour was a generalist product aimed at every variation of writer out...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
10/5/2017
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Windows 10 isn't too bad (although the remains of legacy Windows in there do drive me nuts!)
It's the remains of legacy Windows in there that make Windows 10 a viable operatin...
Any Windows users here ?
9/1/2017
Windows and Android. I may eventually give Linux a shot, depending on where Microsoft ends up taking Windows 10, but for now I’ll stick with those two.
I bought a Mac laptop some years back spe...
TickTick steadily improves
8/5/2017
I first tried TickTick after reading this post and was quite impressed. Within a couple of weeks it has replaced several other apps for most of my day-to-day reminders and lists. The software may mak...
Not totally outliner-focused, but nifty
6/10/2017
I've used ExpanDrive ( http://www.expandrive.com/ ) for several years for this kind of thing.
ExpanDrive is similar to CloudMounter, but works on both Windows and Mac, and they have a Linux version ...
More cautionary news for those who choose to live in the cloud: Wunderlist’s servers have been down for over 24 hours now. Local apps work fine, but you can’t synch between devices.
Micr...
In a universe long ago and far away (think tape!), I taught a consulting course which covered, among other things, protecting critical computer data. Two of the bullet points were:
1 - There are only...
Evernote and the cloud
9/18/2016
dan7000 wrote:
>If Google acquires Evernote I would urge users to get their data out as
>fast as possible.
If you have data stored in Evernote that isn’t backed up elsewhere, you should cons...
Evernote and the cloud
9/15/2016
From the Google Cloud Platform blog:
“Evernote evaluated multiple public cloud vendors and specifically chose Google Cloud Platform for our advanced data analytics and machine learning capabili...
Evernote and the cloud
9/15/2016
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>It could also be the beginning of a much-feared acquisition, but I'm not
>sure what Google would get out of Evernote.
Evernote would be a perfect step up from Google Ke...
Evernote raises prices
8/29/2016
This projection likely reflects some very aggressive promotions made toward the end of last year, after the company was declared dead by the VCs and replaced their founding CEO with Chris O’Neil...
Evernote raises prices
6/30/2016
Ghacks has posted a tutorial for moving from Evernote to OneNote, including for Mac:
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/29/migrate-evernote-onenote/
Evernote raises prices
6/29/2016
Evernote has introduced new pricing that limits free usage to two devices and generally raises the cost for paid users.
You can read the announcement here:
...
People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers
4/12/2016
I'm not sure this is entirely on topic here, but it does provide an interesting illustration of how a non profit news organization cobbled together a system, almost entirely using readily available op...
Scrivener for mobile?
10/17/2015
The release notes for Scrivener for windows Version 1.9, released on October 6, lead off with the following: "Scrivener’s file format has been updated for compatibility with future mobile versio...
Adriano Ferrari sends out periodic announcements about Gingko via MailChimp.
I don't remember what I might have done to get on that list, but here is a link to the latest announcement as it currently...
In Adriano Ferrari's announcement, speaking of offline Gingko, he says:
"I will say, it's not perfect (slow to load, manual conflict resolution, only works in Chrome, etc). But all of these issues wi...