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Markdown vs WSYWYG 9/10/2013

Thank you both very much, Chris Murtland and MadAboutDana. I think your explanations are really helpful and shed a good light on ingenious software; I understand better now why in the Kühn blog, ...

Markdown vs WSYWYG 9/5/2013

"Posted by Dr Andus Sep 2, 2013 at 09:16 AM I’d argue that markdown (and other markup notations such as ConnectedText’s own) is faster than WYSIWYG. The latter is only seemingly faster. Re...

Markdown vs WSYWYG 9/4/2013

"I’d argue that markdown (and other markup notations such as ConnectedText’s own) is faster than WYSIWYG. The latter is only seemingly faster. Remember that you need to take your hand off ...

Does Anyone Use The Brain v7? 8/31/2013

"I tried using v6 as a PIM, but it slowed to a crawl very quickly because most of the notes contained a page or two of text and images. I got the impression that the Brain wasn’t really designed...

Advice on research software 8/26/2013

Both people interested in KEdit/"text processing" of data, and interested in the interest of "old" software could be interested in this link: http://takimag.com/article/spare_a_thought_for_the_late_a...

Advice on research software 8/22/2013

I should add some important info here with respect to desktop search "engines". The only one I know of these and which is able to search different files for numeric ranges, is dtSearch, very good in e...

Advice on research software 8/22/2013

(I meant "regex expressions", of course.)

Advice on research software 8/22/2013

Sorry again, even my very first example here is wrong since the range would be not -600 but -699, but my examples further down explain how to do it right. You see here that almost never just one regex...

Advice on research software 8/22/2013

Regex (correction of the above) It is obvious regex (as in KEdit), for numeric ranges, is extremely helpful (when in AS for example, only very short ranges could be replaced by a bunch of "AND" "sear...

Advice on research software 8/21/2013

And sorry again, KEdit would be 129 dollars, not 149 dollars, if ever you decide to pay for this. Of course, a price of 99 dollars would probably double sales, if you put my error into perspective (I ...

Advice on research software 8/21/2013

Sorry, I did not edit the above enough. As you can see from the last paragraph there, you will probably NOT need any export to Excel then, or just for more sophisticad analysis; number range tasks can...

Advice on research software 8/21/2013

I should perhaps have added - that these special abilities are not proper to KEdit, but to so-called "Eastern text editors" - that there is a (an original?) free editor, XEdit - that the others, KEdit...

Advice on research software 8/20/2013

I missed the need for quantifying, and this is indeed a very important aspect of the overall task. I did not try with AS but it seems to me that there, some quantifying at least could be realized, wi...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

Above it's "But it appears more "natural" to me to have some "paper" as a unit/record, then break up its elements when needed, THAN (not: then) breaking up such "papers" to begin with, and then recomb...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

CT appears very interesting, albeit I remind the (possibly needed) functionality of not only gathering paragraphs, but together with their respective "source info" (be that in a special first paragrap...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

Also, in the above example, the empty dummy field "2" is not necessary, since you could do the replace with the end-"]" of field "1" instead, but keep an eye on having such dummy fields as first, and ...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

I forgot, in order to prepare your data for import into AS, you would need an editor or a text processor or something in which you would be able to replace blankline by ] return then the blankline ...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

I don't see how such a task could be done with the Adobe product. I also jumped 30 cm up when reading "Access, a free-form database". Dr Andus could easily give you 2, 3 or 4 names of dedicated softwa...

Advice on research software 8/17/2013

We know there's dedicated software for it, and we know it's expensive. Since you post here, let's assume you don't want such a solution. Then let's clarify your needs, since there are several solutio...

Minimalist champions 8/4/2013

Allow for my mentioning two tools that I hold both in high respect: XyWrite - generations of then well-paid journalists put all their texts into the keyboard with the help of this KEdit - a very spe...

Bento end-of-life -- what next? 8/4/2013

Bento is a classic example of a spin-off marketed to its death. I once had been very interested in Bento, so I tried to discover, in what way was it different from their core product, in which way co...

Ultrarecall - Help!!! 8/4/2013

"The hundreds of millions of consumers around the world who didn’t really need a PC but had to buy one because there were no cheap tablets or smartphones or smart TVs around yet have been subsid...

Writing Outliner for MS Word Soon on BitsDuJour 8/4/2013

Thank you very much for these explanations. I let pass this occasion, but no need to "sell" this tool to me, I continue, all the more so after your final post, to consider it as highly intriguing and ...

Ultrarecall - Help!!! 8/2/2013

What CT does in this respect, every outliner of my knowledge does. But the mention of WorkFlowy is of interest here, and it seems to be obvious that with the advent of cloud-based services and their ...

Writing Outliner for MS Word Soon on BitsDuJour 8/2/2013

"Nothing is really physically moved as such when you drag things around except the order that WO knows the files needs to be handled in when you output the data into a new (full) Word file." Thank yo...

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