Jeffery Smith

Taking handwritten notes on digital devices 5/7/2018

I decided to give the iPad Pro and Apple pencil a try, and have had problems deciding on which app to use. One guy on Youtube seems to endorse every one of them as "best". Notability seems to be popul...

iMindMap 11 is out -- buggy 5/3/2018

This has gotten to be par for the course with respect to major upgrades from iMindMap. In years past, I have always left the previous version on the computer until they work out all of the bugs. It ma...

Smart Pen system (a bit OT) 4/30/2018

I'll give that a look. I'm still conflicted between Notes Plus and MyScript. I'd welcome a new contender in the short list. JLS bigspud wrote: a quick shout out for metamoji corp: >the mazec hadwrit...

Smart Pen system (a bit OT) 4/28/2018

I am hoping that there is an app that accepts a shorthand sort of thing like the PalmPilot of 20 years ago. I learned the PalmPilot sort of shorthand in a very brief time, and could write very fast wi...

Smart Pen system (a bit OT) 4/27/2018

Thanks Hugh. It looks like a Wacom Slate (or something like that) system that I looked at a while back. The SmartPens seem to be tiny video cameras that can find a place on a grid of special paper wit...

Smart Pen system (a bit OT) 4/26/2018

I used to have a Canson Papershow smartpen system, but they stopped supporting it so I had to ditch it. There are other Smart Pen systems, but none of them seems to be terribly successful. The Neo sys...

The joy of index cards 4/15/2018

I used SuperNotecard until they decided to go to a subscription.

best outliner you use? (2018) 4/12/2018

Whenever I refer to Stephen Stephen Zeoli's Tinderbox tutorials, I'm immediately compelled to open Tinderbox and pour my life into it. Perhaps I should remove the competing programs from my Mac altoge...

Taking handwritten notes on digital devices 4/4/2018

I used Canson Papershow briefly, but the company soon discontinued it with no software upgrades. It requires a special paper with a grid that the pen could follow. When Canson dropped it, the paper wa...

Aquaminds Notetaker 3/29/2018

I used Eaglefiler years ago as my default place to put PDF files, and had I not started using Evernote I might still be doing so. During the time I was using it, it didn't seem to be adding any new fe...

Aquaminds Notetaker 3/29/2018

I have owned a copy of Tinderbox since about version 3, and its learning curve is primarily what keeps me from using it. I find setting up templates and attributes to be the most vexing part of it...j...

Aquaminds Notetaker 3/29/2018

Thanks much for the feedback, friends. I have an unusual situation in that our college uses Windows, but there is a policy that nothing can be installed on them other than what the college uses (Micro...

Aquaminds Notetaker 3/29/2018

On the Aquaminds blog, the hope for a March release is apparently gone. The latest version from several years ago is not stable on my computer (particularly with importing). I’m thoroughly disco...

MindManager back for Mac 3/16/2018

This is where Filemaker Pro has it right, i.e., that the Mac and Windows versions are essentially identical twins.

MindManager back for Mac 3/15/2018

I took a chance and upgraded my license primarily because of the stagnation and subscription paradigm of Novamind. I have a feeling that I'm going to continue to be unimpressed by MindManager on the M...

Early build of SheetPlanner Month view. 2/24/2018

Back in the MSDOS world of the mid-80s, I used a minimalist spreadsheet that could be run as a pop-up app in the background. I don't remember the name of it, but I found it to be very useful at the ti...

Agenda 2/18/2018

The same here. One of my tasks at work is maintaining the database for part-time contracts. Human Resources is always making some tweaks to it (to accommodate Obamacare), and I needed a place to keep ...

Agenda 2/18/2018

Oops, yes you are right! Getting my "note" apps confused. I had actually given NotePlan a try, but didn't care much for the interface. Seemed a bit like Bear or Ulysses. Paul Korm wrote: NotePlan and...

Agenda 2/17/2018

it was the demise of NoteMap that sent me completely from Windows to Mac. From NoteMap, I went to Circus Ponies Notebook, another abandoned project. I'm still waiting for the new version of Aquaminds ...

Agenda 2/17/2018

I agree with the points you’ve made on your blog. I don’t see Agenda bumping ant serious notetaking app. More of an organized reminder or todo that makes cutting and pasting a sentence or ...

OmniOutliner 3 for iOS 2/16/2018

One thing is sure. I cannot do outline processing on an iPad. Just seems to involve too many ways to screw up.

Agenda 2/16/2018

Are any of you using Agenda? There were a few threads on it earlier. I admit to be polygamous when it comes to PIMs. I'm currently running Gingko, Agenda, and Pagico sort of simultaneously. I'm leanin...

iMindmap 11 2/15/2018

Tony Buzan sent out a teaser today indicating that iMindmap 11 is coming out soon. Hope that it will be worth the upgrade cost. I’m not sure that I have benefitted by any of the upgrades since v...

Horizontal outlining 2/3/2018

Tree Outline appears to be defunct, though I still see it on the App Store under my "purchased" apps.

Pagico 8 2/1/2018

I moved the tasks to project folders, and then moved most of them back. Just didn’t feel right to have them filed away. MadaboutDana wrote: That's been my experience. What's more, you can get ...

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