Dominik Holenstein

MyMind vs. Spaceduck 3/15/2025

Here some background information about spaceduck: Year Founded: 2023 Status: Private Employees: 5 Latest Deal Type: Early Stage VC Investors: 1 Description: Developer of a product research platform ...

Johnny.Decimal 2/22/2025

Agreed, the search on Windows is slow and tedious to use. Here are two other options: FileSeek https://www.fileseek.ca/ DeskRule https://www.zabkat.com/deskrule/index.htm#sshot

Johnny.Decimal 2/22/2025

Many thanks for sharing! The concept of organizing files into folders and nested folders is one of the big failures of the IT industry (the other one is the cell-based concept of spreadsheets). I do...

The future of OneNote 6/8/2024

Microsoft is going to integrate Loop components in OneNote: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/use-loop-components-in-onenote-ed8a43d9-f6fd-4ad6-bc9d-8841db4da459 Best, Dominik

Speare word processor 4/19/2024

Hi Steve Many thanks for the heads-up on Speare. It has been on my radar for a long time and the development of this tool is impressive. It ticks many important boxes for me: - Printing (yes, I am o...

What note-taking app has *actually* helped you grow your thinking in unexpected ways? 10/30/2023

I am thinking of the good old ADM... ... and today I am using a mix of The Brain, Word and XMind. Dominik

The timeline 4/6/2023

What is the intention of this word diarrhoea? The writer of a text is responsible that the reader can understand it. This kind of confusing and unstructured text gives me the impression that the write...

Stashpad - A Personal Note Taking Tool 1/31/2023

I just stumbled across it: Stashpad is a personal note taking tool and it is not considered as a knowledge management app like Obsidian or TheBrain. Or, in other words, "note-taking for working memory...

Legend 6/5/2022

Hi, I am and old-fashioned type of computer user and therefore my maybe strange question for some of you here: Can you easily and properly print an outline from Legend? Thank you. Kind regards, Do...

Google Chrome - New feature: Copy link to highlighted text 11/19/2021

This is a nice new feature on the current version of the Google Chrome browser (96.0.4664.45): Select a text on a page and then right-click and choose "Copy link to highlighted text". Cheers, Domini...

Roam Research - The Desktop App for macOS, Windows and Linux is Available 6/16/2021

I have just started to give Roam Research another try and I am quite pleased with it and the desktop app on Windows so far: https://roamresearch.com/ Kind regards, Dominik

TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021 5/6/2021

I have tried to move to Obsidian / Roam / Mem but then quickly decided to continue with TheBrain. I have been using it since 1999 and the main brain file has 13600 thoughts. Files are not imported - I...

TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started 10/28/2020

22111 worte: "Thanks for the trigger. See my follow-up: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9182/0/thebraindead-hopefully-not-yet" Sorry, I don't have the time to read and try to understand...

TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started 10/18/2020

Hi all, The beta testing for TheBrain 12 started two days ago. Here is an overview of the new features added to v12 (posted by Harlan Hugh): https://www.thebrain.com/blog/version-12-beta My first i...

TheBrain 11 - Beta Testing Started 10/10/2019

Hi Paul, I agree, the wording is not consistent even from the company side. TheBrain v11 runs on Win10 and on macOS Mojave and I haven't found any differences yet. But the current testing for v11 is...

TheBrain 11 - Beta Testing Started 10/9/2019

Hi, The public beta testing for TheBrain 11 started two weeks ago and is in its early stage. https://forums.thebrain.com/post/thebrain-11-alpha-now-available-10276772 One of the main new features i...

Visual Outliner on Bitsdujour.com today - USD 29 instead of 59.95 12/28/2018

Visual Outliner is on bitsdujour.com for USD 29 (52% discount) today: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/visual-outliner/in=todays-deals-home Best, Dominik

Typora (in beta) - Another Markdown Editor For Distraction Free Writing 8/21/2018

I have just read this information in the current German IT journal c't (Edition 18 / 18th August 2018) regarding Typora: "The paid version of Typora will be released around the end of this year with l...

Typora (in beta) - Another Markdown Editor For Distraction Free Writing 8/18/2018

I have just stumbled upon Typora. https://typora.io/ It is a minimalist markdown editor with a huge feature set - including mathematics, diagrams and is available for macOS and Windows. Best, Domini...

Notion.io is my new favorite 8/16/2018

Here is the correct link: https://www.notion.so/ Best, Dominik

iA Writer is coming to Windows - Please support the Kickstarter Campaign to make it happen! 2/6/2018

Yes, just 3 day left: Goal: USD 21'453 Missing: USD 1'411 Please support this project to bring iA Write to Windows! Thank you. Best, Dominik

iA Writer is coming to Windows - Please support the Kickstarter Campaign to make it happen! 1/12/2018

Hi, iA Writer ( https:/ /ia.net/writer/) is probably one of the most sophisticated and beatiful distraction-free writing tool currently available for macOS, iOS and Android - but not for Windows. Bu...

Trello - Desktop App for macOS and Windows 9/14/2017

Trello has just announced the availability of the desktop app for macOS and Windows: https://blog.trello.com/trello-desktop-app-for-mac-and-windows Best, Dominik

Smartdown - lack of activity 9/5/2017

I have been using Smartdown for several months now and I like it. It is my writing pad on the computer to quickly jot down notes. It is not overloaded with features and the new beta v1.2 adds a few bu...

Geist Building a open source personal knowledge base 6/10/2017

Just my 2 cents to “Also, [The Brain’s] schema is still very much hierarchical in my opinion.” This is totally wrong. TheBrain is in no way hierarchical, it is associative. Best...

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