Derek Cornish
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12/29/2006
Christian -
> I used many information managers but I never put much information outside the document itself (organisation, tree, ...) because this is so difficult to export/import.
Excellent point. ...
askSam - or not...?
12/24/2006
Kenneth,
It looks as though your experience with askSam is very like mine - DOS, then version 3. The main reason I stopped at v5 was because I wasn't using it enough to justify the upgrade at the tim...
askSam - or not...?
12/24/2006
Graham -
Yes, I remember your askSam experience earlier in the year. Their behaviour seems positively self-destructive, unless they have a huge pool of satisfied corporate users we don't know about.
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askSam - or not...?
12/23/2006
Ian:
Yes, I know what you mean about the forums. I was there about a year or so ago complaining about the lack of support for Citation, and have been a longtime member of their much diminished maili...
askSam - or not...?
12/23/2006
As an occasional user of askSam v5 I regularly think about upgrading to version 6, especially when those Christmas update special offers come round.
Is anyone (still) using askSam v6 on this forum, a...
Your choice of mind mapping software
12/23/2006
Wes -
Thanks,
Derek
Your choice of mind mapping software
12/23/2006
Graham -
Thanks for the MingGenius info.
As an Anglo-Scot now in the US but recently living in Cardiff (where my wife used to work), here is the URL :-)
http://www.mindgenius.com/website/presenter.a...
Your choice of mind mapping software
12/22/2006
Graham and Wes -
Which edition of MindGenius are you using? The home version is clearly more limited, but it isn't clear whether or not the business and educational uses offer the same or a slightly ...
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12/21/2006
Steve -
Absolutely right; I'd completely forgotten about Treepad, which I haven't used for years. As you say, the file format is virtually all plain text with a sprinkling of non-ASCII stuff - rather...
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12/20/2006
Daly -
This CRIMP thing must be going around Kansas, too...
> One must for me is being able to have multiple windows of the same or different docs open at the same time for moving stuff back and for...
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12/20/2006
Hi Daly,
There are a lot of good single-pane plain text editors around - free and shareware. Most are - not surprisingly - oriented towards programing, or use with markup (like html, etc), but also m...
Let the Good Times Roll
12/16/2006
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc., to everyone.
And a special thank you to Chris Murtland for designing this splendid new site so that we could re-establish the outliners.com/discuss/ group at a...
New previews for Ideamason 3.0
12/13/2006
Franz,
Thanks very much for these. IdeaMason is becoming really interesting and I look forward to the launching of the new version.
Derek
Back to the text file?
12/12/2006
Chris -
I'm still not quite sure where I am going with this, or what triggered it.
1. One aspect was your concern about future-proofing data when archiving it, and thinking - like you - that plain ...
Back to the text file?
12/9/2006
Steve -
> but I hope Tom Davis also provides the option to capture and store information as plain text.
Me, too. On an aside, unlike many people I find the Zoot interface positively elegant with its...
Back to the text file?
12/8/2006
I came across one of Chris Murtland's blog items of last year [ http://www.murtworld.com/2005/09/life-in-files.php ] today, where he discusses the value of using plain text files as one's basic inform...
Nigel,
I agree with Hugh. IdeaMason is looking especially useful, although I haven't trialled it extensively. Another option might be Nota Bene - http://www.notabene.com/ - which also provides what y...
HELP! Re: GV & Win XP
11/29/2006
Cassius,
I've dropped you an email about this. Hope it helps.
Derek
I just looked at Bits du Jour (http://www.bitsdujour.com/) at 5:20 pm Central Time today (Sunday), and they still have ListPro at a discount for another 5hr 40 mins. Apparently they have extended the ...
Fallows Article on Info Managers
11/18/2006
Ken -
I don't use a Mac (yet), but I am impressed with the range of outlining programs available for it. Ted Goranson's regular column in "About This Particular Outliner (ATPO) contains interesting d...
Zotero
11/16/2006
Ian and Graham -
The Nightly Tester route seems the best and quickest one for trying to make extensions compatible with Firefox 2.0. I even got my Net Snippets extension to work using NT - luckily, s...
Zotero
11/14/2006
Ian -
No, I didn't know about FEBE or CLEO. They look like excellent solutions. Have you tried both of them? If so, which one worked best for you?
Derek
Zotero
11/14/2006
Graham -
I'm probably going to upgrade after the current chores are done. I'll let you know if I have any problems.
Derek
Zotero
11/13/2006
To answer my own question (maybe). There is a link that claims to provide provides "3 ways to make old extensions compatible with FireFox 2.0." It is here:
http://www.perfectblogger.com/2006/09/make...
Zotero
11/13/2006
Graham and Dan -
As another FireFox user (I'm on v1.5.0.8) I've been delaying upgrading to the (beta?) v2.0 of FireFox - in order to evaluate Zotero. Do you use a lot of FireFox extensions? If so, ha...