Chris Murtland

Your top 3 tools? 3/4/2013

1, Workflowy - It took me a while to warm up to this one, but with the addition of an iPad and iPhone, being able to outline anywhere, at all times, sold me on it. It has weaknesses (can't multiple se...

The ultimate outliner 1/17/2013

* hoisting * cloning * mark and gather and other multi-item and organizational/structural operations * complete control via keyboard * multi-platform with synchronization but ability to work offline o...

List of PIMs 12/17/2012

These ideas are very similar to things I've had brewing for quite a while - a separate section of the site that is essentially an inventory/database of the software discussed, with screenshots, links,...

Programmer's Notepad 11/26/2012

EditPad Pro (http://www.editpadpro.com) can save 'sessions' (called Projects); they can be either automatically updated (any files opened are automatically added to your current working project) or ma...

PiggyDB 11/10/2012

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Also, in a wiki, tags can be used to label pages, but they cannot be >organised themselves --they are just part of a long flat list- so their >contribution ends there. Pig...

New members' comments stuck 11/7/2012

I think I've gotten all the previously unapproved members approved now. There is a bug I haven't sorted out yet with the "latest post by" - this currently only updates for already approved members. I...

posting is fixed 9/15/2012

The Productivity forum has been fixed now. Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Apparently something similar must have happened in the Productivity forum.

forum enhancement suggestions 9/15/2012

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Chris, if you haven't yet closed the list, I have one more >suggestion: #hashtags. These could be combined with the word cloud suggested, as >well as with tagging post...

forum enhancement suggestions 9/13/2012

Ken wrote: >And sometimes the best response is no response. I agree that we can ask for civil >behavior in the forum, but sometimes it is just best to ignore posts that do not violate >fourm rules,...

Cataloguing the Different Ways the Mind Associates Itself with the Outliner Presented Screen 9/13/2012

Foolness, it's quite simple. To gain credibility and acceptance within this particular community, discuss outliners and software without making any negative comment on the motivations or character of...

forum enhancement suggestions 9/12/2012

Note - if you click "My Account" under your name in the left bar when logged in, you can change your password, display name, etc. Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >So this brings up a much more basic sugg...

forum enhancement suggestions 9/12/2012

Any votes for a post length limit?

Cataloguing the Different Ways the Mind Associates Itself with the Outliner Presented Screen 9/12/2012

Foolness, I have to interject now as moderator. I don't like doing so, as I generally hope these sorts of things would die down naturally and not become an ongoing problem. I'm sorry, but your reason...

forum enhancement suggestions 9/12/2012

I will plan to increase the number of page links for a thread as that should be a simple change. One trick in the meantime - if you are using the Clearly browser extension for Firefox or Chrome, and ...

posting is fixed 9/11/2012

Sorry about the temporary problem with posting - I had to make a few tweaks to the software after moving to a new server. It should all be working correctly now. Many thanks to Alexander for the head...

forum enhancement suggestions 9/10/2012

Please post things you wish the forum would do (or do differently) in this thread.

making more work for chris: screenshots? 9/10/2012

I was actually thinking about the ability to attach screenshots to posts earlier today. I will start a poll thread to let everyone contribute their desired forum enhancements. Also note that I'm movi...

Where are all these quality topics that are being buried by long ramblings? 9/9/2012

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >Chris, any chance of "related threads" >functionality? There's always a chance. ;-) I'll have to see if there is an easy way to do this based on the actual text conten...

"hierarchical tags" - what are they, how do they work? 8/21/2012

Evernote doesn't have any tag inheritance. In fact, the tag hierarchy doesn't affect the notes in any way - it's simply a way to arrange and organize the tags themselves. It does come in handy if you ...

N?stor S?nchez 7/21/2012

Using special characters will work now for user display names (not your login username, for which you should avoid special characters), topic titles, and posts. Unfortunately, it is not retroactive, s...

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Archived Messages 4/25/2012

If you are logged in, there is now a link to the archived messages text file in addition to the active forum text file. Thanks, Chris

Archived Messages 4/19/2012

You can download the original archives OPML file from http://www.outlinersoftware.com/files/outliner-opml.zip I could also export this to a text file in a similar format to the current forum's text f...

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