jaslar
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Checkvist and customer responsiveness
8/26/2015
Based on comments here, I tried to use Checkvist not as a PIM but as a writing tool (for a longer article). While it doesn't have the streamlined simplicity of Workflowy, I found it by far the most ca...
Dropbox's Hackpad to be open sourced
8/24/2015
Described as a collaborative note-taker.Anybody tried it?
Article here: http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/21/dropbox-finally-open-sources-its-hackpad-collaborative-document-editor/
Website here: https:...
Search-as-you-Type
8/10/2015
I can't speak to how it compares feature-for-feature with AskSam, but Workflowy does this quite well.
A bit of CRIMP related humor
8/5/2015
Brilliant, funny, true. The truth, of course, is that we can only keep track of a maximum of 7 things. Probably only four of them matter. The point of all these systems is to try to actually get to th...
I finally had a chance to download and test. I'm deeply appreciative of programmers who create tools for the rest of us, and I've shared a more extensive version of my comments with him on his site. I...
Corkboard apps
7/26/2015
I was updating some apps on my old iPad 2 and saw "Index Card Board for iPad." On the one hand, I can see the appeal: index cards are a natural metaphor, with a kinesthetic sense of manipulating the d...
PIM for Linux and Win7?
7/13/2015
Yes, Workflowy. Sorry for the typo. And upon reflection, I realize that I more often review the tasks than the big picture. My big Workflowy categories do help in that, though.
PIM for Linux and Win7?
7/12/2015
I seem to use several PIMs at once, across Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS.
- bin for recording tasks: Google Tasks. I have apps on Android and iOS that sync with each other and my Google Calendar. ...
Editorial now has its own version of TaskPaper, which I find incredibly handy. I got to looking at TaskPaper+ (you mentioned clones) which is for Windows, and is open source. But it requires me to set...
MadAboutDana, I'm not sure I follow that.
By in-document folding do you just mean folding by level under headings? I've been using Haroopad cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Editorial on iOS) ...
Update: the export and import options for Omniflow are really backup options: one creates a zip file of your work, and the other restores it. But I sent them some detailed feedback and got immediate a...
Thanks, Yosemite. I signed up and played with it. I'm still CRIMPing around for a light single-pane outliner for writing.The key difference between this and Workflowy is that it uses files: a document...
FoldingText for Atom text editor
6/28/2015
A reasonable rant, if such a thing is possible. I've bought WriteRoom, Plaintext, taskpaper, and was also irritated when such promising beginnings seemed to fizzle out. Even Oakoutliner seemed incredi...
FoldingText for Atom text editor
6/27/2015
I tried this back in January, but was disappointed. No spell check, no word count, folding by level of indent, not heading. I also had trouble CLOSING the program (Windows). But I've been playing wit...
google tasks canvas view
6/25/2015
Thanks. On the desktop, I actually find this quite handy. And better than the mobile view I was using.
Editorial app on iOS gets "folding"
6/15/2015
And that was all I was waiting for. This looks to have it all: markdown, separate preview, folding, navigation, edit multiple files at once, spell check, Dropbox sync, tables, automatic date insertion...
Smartdown odd behavior
6/12/2015
1. Open SmartDownGlobal.properties.
2. Comment with a # the following line:
minimize.to.tray=1
3. Restart.
There might be advantages to the default behavior, but I found it just different enough t...
Smartdown odd behavior
6/12/2015
Thank you, Dr Andus. You are correct, and the developers told me how to change that behavior to make it more customary. I don't use Windows often enough to notice that option of minimizing to the righ...
Smartdown odd behavior
6/12/2015
Thank you, Dr Andus. You are correct, and the developers told me how to change that behavior to make it more customary. I don't use Windows often enough to notice that option of minimizing to the righ...
Smartdown odd behavior
6/11/2015
I do have a messsage in to the developer. But even with a fresh install, the behavior persists. Task Manager shows that several instances are still running, but I can't switch to them. I know this isn...
Smartdown odd behavior
6/11/2015
I bought Smartdown last night, and installed it, with license, on my Windows 7 laptop. I even figured out how to download and install a new theme, and to turn off the soft wrap markers. I was enjoying...
Microsoft Buys Wunderlist
6/2/2015
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2485202,00.asp
And a few other things - apparently as part of strategy with Windows 10 and mobile devices.
Just stumbled across this. Although it has a mention on this site, I hadn't read anything about it. It seems a powerful, highly customizable database for many kinds of information management needs (pr...
Kanban Kit
5/6/2015
I agree that finding a single tool may not be possible nor wise. But I find myself often dipping into Mindscope on iOS about once a week. It offers a very customizable Kanban board that has the advant...
Plain Text Journal
4/21/2015
Interesting project and product. As a long time keeper of journals, I think the one thing I DO need and use (if not tags and cross-linking) is a powerful SEARCH tool. Am I correct in thinking this pro...