Jeffery Smith

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/22/2019

I'll try the Google Calendar strategy. Thanks Paul.

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/21/2019

When they were unable to figure out why I couldn't upgrade my account (same persistent error message that it could not retrieve my information), I tried a Hail Mary. I went to my account and canceled ...

Agenda app gains Reminders integration (Mac beta) 6/19/2019

I have come to like Agenda the past few months. I'm using it primarily to keep track of audio recording techniques, in journal or diary form.

Collegiality 6/16/2019

I hope that my positive developer posts (Sheetplanner, Aquaminds Notetaker) outnumber my negative posts (DropTask). It comes down to whether the app is making my life more orderly or less orderly and ...

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/14/2019

I finally got a reply from Ayoa. The fellow showed me a string of emails that were sent to me but never reached my inbox for reasons unknown. The good news is that they do seem to have a support staff...

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/14/2019

Well, I'm about at the end of my trial version of Ayoa, and the company hasn't returned any of my inquiries about (1) why I cannot use my DropTask subscription for Ayoa, and (2) why I cannot upgrade t...

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/11/2019

My feeling as well. This new app is painfully slow. A bullet journal is quicker. Paul Korm wrote: Yes, deleted without warning. So far, for me, iMindMap 11 is still >running -- and I will never cho...

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/11/2019

If this is supposed to replace iMindMap 11, it appears to have about 1/10 of the features. I'm afraid to even run iMindMap 11; when I ran DropTask, it automatically updated itself to AYOA and deleted ...

iMindMap and DropTask merged into Ayoa 6/11/2019

Attempting to use DropTask automatically led to an update that turned out to be a conversion to AYOA. I got the message "Could not get plan change information. Please contact contact@ayoa.com." My ori...

Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time 6/1/2019

That may be the problem. We use Filemaker Pro at the college for making contracts, and when someone complains to me that the program isn't saving records, they are usually filling out the form from th...

Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time 5/31/2019

I put a note into it this morning, and it seemed to show up (the first word) on my calendar view for today. I also entered a note after that. This afternoon, the first words showed up in the calendar ...

Aquaminds Notetaker 5/28/2019

Aquaminds is aiming for a June release of their long-awaited (at least by me) release of Notetaker. They finished the documentation except for final review, and it is posted on their blog (if I can fi...

Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time 5/21/2019

I've run into an issue with it. After not being able to upgrade to it (versus buying it), I deleted the program completely with Mac Cleaner, then tried to reinstall it from AppStore. It goes into perp...

Blast from the Past 2 - Grandview 2.0 5/21/2019

I went from ThinkTank to Ready to PC Outline to GrandView to MaxThink. And then MS DOS was abandoned, and it all came tumbling down.

Noteplan 2.0 is here, on time 5/20/2019

When you launch Noteplan, a message will pop up telling you of an update (no extra cost). Click on it, and you will get Noteplan 2 downloaded to your Mac. It's not quite on the App Store yet. If you ...

NotePlan 2 Preview 5/12/2019

It is downloading. Requires taking a brief questionnaire.

The Checklist Manifesto 5/9/2019

This topic seems like a natural for this group. Checklists and outlines are not new innovations, but we tend to try to organize thoughts and tasks into those formats. My checklists are outlines (in No...

NotePlan 2.0 5/7/2019

I requested a preview. It is an app that I would like to use, but version 1.0 did not quite make it for me.

The Checklist Manifesto 4/23/2019

I'm in the first 20% of a book entitled "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. So far, it seems to be quite anecdotal about the prudence of keeping checklists for very important sequences of tasks...

RIP Tony Buzan 4/18/2019

I think I learned about Tony Buzan through Edward de Bono, or vice versa. I'm going to try to find some of my de Bono books on the bookshelf. I think the book I had was "Lateral Thinking".

Tinderbox 8 is released 4/15/2019

I also agree with most of the last two pages of this discussion. My worldview on research and notetaking is to collect information in a somewhat freeform format (this, my past use of notecards), and t...

RIP Tony Buzan 4/13/2019

While I don't think he invented mind-mapping, he was probably the most visible advocate of it. And I continue to use iMindMap 11, though I don't teach now.

Tinderbox 8 is released 4/13/2019

All of my attempts to incorporate Tinderbox into my workflow begin as making notes without diving into the Getting Started Manual (which could use some work by a technical writer). My frustration with...

Tinderbox 8 is released 4/13/2019

I wish there was more attention paid to the manual and some videos.

Tinderbox 8 is released 4/12/2019

The default note is refreshingly not dark brown with white lettering. I like it already.

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