Paul Korm
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Outliners indexing external links
4/28/2024
I would add MarginNote to the list. (Mac and Apple mobile platforms, only.)
MarginNote can index, in its internal library, any number of PDF, ePUB or other documents. The library can be searched ...
Preferred data/attributes in OPML files
4/16/2024
Robin, OPML is the most non-standard standard around. For interoperability, which I looks like you're going for, I suggest starting with sticking close to Dave Winer's original spec:
http://opml.or...
Splitting Items
4/10/2024
Maurice, actually Zavala on macOS uses shift-option-return for Split, not shift-cmd-return. And works nicely.
Split, moving the split text to a new row, using the same keyboard shortcut as Zavala (...
LiquidText is very nice on devices with input devices like Pencil or the like. On keyboard-only devices it's a PITA. It's also become pricey -- $175/year for a subscription. The subscription isn'...
Roam Research Status?
3/23/2024
Not much value in being a Believer these days.
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/16/2023
Satis wrote
>Upgrade price is $44.99
Interesting. In my instance of Mellel 5 the price is shown as $49.95 -- probably some A/B testing of price sensitivity. Doesn't matter. I like Mellel, and as...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/15/2023
$49.95 upgrade. Seems steep, especially since very good free options exist.
iA physical (paper) notebook
12/8/2023
Interesting move out of the virtual world, deep into the past.
Southbeach Modeler v4
12/5/2023
After what seems like a very long time, Southbeach Modeller (sic) has a new release -- version 4. Notes here:
http://southbeachinc.com/
Windows-only, Southbeach is a sort of "Tinderbox for Windows...
Sam Altman unexpectedly has lots of free time. Maybe he would help out.
A critique of tagging
11/7/2023
The developer of DEVONthink is fond of telling users "tags are groups" (i.e., folders). In most implementations of tags, they really are.
A critique of tagging
11/5/2023
I think a number of the tools-for-thought / productivity gurus have been around long enough that their game of changing their advice, or repackaging it under new names and new courses, has gone well p...
1 Diagramming software like Scapple, but with notes connectable to multiple parts of the map?
11/5/2023
I often create these sorts of documents. Usually I see them called "concept maps", but other terminology pops up. I can think of several applications that will do this for you, including:
1. Curi...
Another fan of the local graph, here. I've recently hyped the local graph's value by including in my daily note template links to the notes for "this day a year ago" and "this day two years ago". By...
I enjoy the spark of a new idea or insight. It happens a lot. But, not because of any computer or software. It's reading, talking to interesting people, day dreaming, and taking long walks that wo...
Bike is now on Setapp
10/26/2023
A Setapp subscription on macOS now includes Bike. Nice.
Yes, for me, and I think also for others.
Barrage wrote:
There seem to be a few apps going by the name Curio these days...is
>Curio by Zengobi the one of which you speak?
I'm afraid my toys would be saddened if I picked just one as the fun one. So there's three that I play with even when I have nothing important to do: Curio, Obsidian and TheBrain.
Curio, because ...
Yesterday I asked Bard for a photo of upper 5th Avenue (NY) as it was in 1920. It replied "Here's a photo of upper 5th Avenue in 1920". It was a photo of Pasadena from this summer.
Google Lens is ...
TheBrain has release the first beta (better to call it "pre-alpha" IMO) of TheBrain 14.
https://thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain14
It's very very buggy. The company has gone all-in on the O...
Useful outliner search/query examples
9/20/2023
Features I find very useful
* Regular expression searching
* Type-to-replace highlighted search results (useful in conjunction with regex-based search)
* Search and replace across multiple documents
Escape's developers did a good job of making their app look like MindNode.
My enjoyment of Tana is increasing as its feature set expands and matures. Looks like there will be a broader public release later this year. Although, it's easy to get access to Tana now -- just ...
Another one goes subscription
9/2/2023
There was (and still is) an app called NoteTaker that was contemporaneous with Circus Ponies. I'm not sure which came first, but NoteTaker 4 is still around on macOS.
https://www.aquaminds.com
Then...
Another one goes subscription
8/31/2023
I own more software than a sane person ought, and over the last 40 years I recall only one case where software stopped working because the developer went out of business -- Circus Ponies Notebook. Th...