Paul Korm
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News from the Subscription front
8/16/2018
A couple of recent articles highlighting Apple's role in fostering and benefiting from the app subscription business.
Tim Cook at Apple's 3Q18 earnings call:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/07/th...
Notion.io is my new favorite
8/16/2018
@nathanb wrote
>Anyone here tried this?
These threads might be interesting
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6196/0/notionso
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8143/0/notion...
Outlinely Get Images
8/15/2018
I saw that update yesterday and also thought the images were tiny. Not sure why, but maybe that will get resolved.
The release note was a bit misleading: "now you can insert images directly to your...
SheetPlanner website is live
8/14/2018
Sorry, just a security tic of mine: It's not a good idea to post your email address here -- better to write Peter offline. This site is index (pretty rapidly) in Google and harvesting even suppose...
Causality ...
8/13/2018
This is an interesting thread. I have a few writing efforts coming up that required coordinated timelines and events.
Has anyone used Aeon for this? I can see why FlyingLogic would be difficult t...
I believe Gingko allow exports in the free version --- not the same as an automatic backup, for sure, but can serve the purpose if one pays attention.
@Sydney Nerd: Are you looking for "automatic ext...
Causality ...
8/11/2018
Hugh thank you for the tip. Looks interesting and a challenge to learn to use properly.
There's a permanent license available in addition to the subscription:
https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.co...
Education Project Plans
8/9/2018
Are you thinking of project management? Or is it course management? Different animals.
Projects are projects -- in academia or government or commerce the discipline is pretty much the same, with v...
OmniGroup has opened enrollment for beta testers for its OmniFocus web app that will be opened for testing "later this year". You need an OmniSync account. Free. OmniGroup's proprietary cross-plat...
Note taking -- DaVinci style
7/31/2018
Interesting diversion
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/leonardo-da-vincis-list-circa-1490.html
Leonardo's to-do list c. 1490
"[Talk to] Giannino, the Bombardier, re. the means by which the tower ...
Thanks @Dellu
This is a great featurette and works well.
MWeb for Mac users
7/26/2018
Cool. The new update is nice.
Curious: "MWeb is a professional Markdown ... app" Just what would be a good amateur Markdown app?
("I'm sorry, sir, I only do Markdown professionally. My license...
Pasting on macOS
Outlinely -- gibberish
Bear -- gibberish
Typora -- a little less gibberish, but nevertheless not useful
TextEdit -- the worst, unreadable
Word -- text is in the right places -- math ...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
MarginNote 3 does not have a "capture with camera" feature. I was curious about how to do what you were looking for, Steve, and found it extremely cumbersome to get an scanned imaged into MarginNote...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
Printed documents?
The app works with PDFs and ePUB format.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
This looks like a great app, but I am curious about whether it has
>utility for working with printed documents, or ...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
MN 3 is now available on the App Store. $5.99 for in-app update from MN 2 to MN 3 -- MN 2 has to be installed for this to work. $12.99 otherwise.
There appears to be no way to migrate data from ...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
MarginNote is an iOS PDF annotation / note taker / mind map app. Looks like version 3 is on the way soon with interface updates and othe new features. A beta tester posted this video
https://youtu....
SheetPlanner website is live
7/23/2018
Seeing as @busymac replied to the question of "what change" -- "Totally separate for now as both apps co-exist well and cater specific audiences. The overall usability / workflows are unique and would...
informationtamers.com, mind-mapping.org
7/23/2018
Interesting. Thank you. Looks like informationtamers.com and mind-mapping.org are both registered by the same "Roy Grubb", and topicscape.com and a few others he discusses are also registered by him...
Journaling, a simplistic view
7/22/2018
DayOne entries are stored in JSON. That's not really "proprietary" -- no more than XML is "proprietary". JSON and XML are formatted based on configurable, public, well-document and open source stan...
SheetPlanner website is live
7/22/2018
That's a very good point. On the other hand, although I have no special depth of understanding of iOS development, I've observed that making an app work effectively on both macOS and iOS has complet...
Journaling, a simplistic view
7/21/2018
DEVONthink has NO proprietary formats for documents. That seems to be an persistent urban legend. Files are stored in DEVONthink as their original files and are never transformed by anyone other tha...
This thread alone has caused multiple weekends lost to CRIMPing all around the world.
https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/whats-your-favorite-app-that-even-apple-power-users-dont-know-about-but-should/5...
A lot of the Productivity Guild postings are behind a rather expensive paywall.
A site, related to the Mac Power Users podcast, is
https://talk.macpowerusers.com
There's a broad range of users and ...
MacJournal
7/20/2018
Well, that's something. Thank you for following up, Steve.
Depending on one's frame of reference, the next ice age will be in the "near future". But, hope springs eternal.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Ju...