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Thanks Maurice. The two Mac outliners I started using in the 80s, which always added a new row at the same level (like when writing paragraphs), were Acta from David Dunham (which amazingly is still a...
OmniOutliner 6 is out
1/7/2026
https://support.omnigroup.com/documentation/omnioutliner/universal/6.0/en/connect/
Any document you keep in a synced folder can be opened and edited. Omni has recommended using iCloud Drive as the p...
OmniOutliner 6 is out
1/7/2026
This was an insta-upgrade for me through Omni's website. When I last upgraded to v.5 (Feb 2019?) the upgrade price was $49.99, but back then the iOS app/upgrade was a separate purchase. Here it's a on...
So outlining is still on the horizon, but at 14 months later they're giving it a (somewhat vague) 2026 ship-date. On their Winterfest page, which has been doling out free daily wallpapers
https://ia....
Walling Monthly Journal
12/16/2025
Walling's new owners seem to be moving very slowly. Maybe it takes time to situate in a new codebase, maybe the old codebase needs a more serious rewiring and fumigation than was expected, maybe it's ...
AI-infused
12/1/2025
Google offers a setting called “Keep Activity” and turning it off prevents new chats from being stored long-term and excludes them from model-training and human review. You can also remove...
Capacities 2025
12/1/2025
I’ve been quietly tracking the evolution of Capacities. Writer Julian Simpson, whose CRIMPing tendencies are dizzying, recently described it as “consistently the best, most comprehensive, ...
Paul Korm wrote:
satis wrote:
>>But in 2025 how many people are reading newspapers? And how many would
>>want to go back?
>
>Uh ... me.
You’re in a small and shrinking minority. Not becaus...
Yes, older tools can give a tactile understanding of abstract operations that modern tools often obscure. And the broader idea is also true, that some technological conveniences reduce exposure to und...
It’s important not to conflate access with mastery. Even when a tool becomes universal (and decades later that still isn’t true worldwide for something like the internet), the baseline adv...
AI’s resource footprint looks big mostly because the numbers are unusual, not because the impact is unprecedented. Put into context, datacenter use is still well below crypto mining, residential...
Paul Korm wrote:
>(BTW, side note: if you're tired of Claude or ChatGPT telling you that
>your questions are brilliant, change the default prompt in Claude's
>general settings, or ChatGPT's persona...
It's funny that Anthropic wasn't even sure if they were going to release this to the public. The head of Claude Coding said, "The Labs team started using it immediately, the next day after I gave it t...
OmniOutliner 6
11/6/2025
Bob Spies wrote:
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>Paul Korm wrote:
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>>"Outliner" always seemed like a misnomer. It's really more for making
>>fancy data tables.
>
>Not for my use case. I do make use of columns for some th...
OmniOutliner 6
11/4/2025
OO5 has been in maintenance mode for so long I'm frankly shocked that an update was annouced, and that it contains new features.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/04/omnioutliner-6-will-be-a-huge-update-a...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/27/2025
Written by Joe Kissell who authored 'The Nisus Way,' owns the 'Take Control of' line of Mac-related ebooks, and is close to the devs because Nisus is 'mission critical' to his ebook creation process.
...
Ooh, I just realized that Zapier article is eight years old. Scratch that.
I write on Mac and iPad and iPhone. On the Mac I've used BBEdit for text processing for decades. I wish it had a companion iOS app. Since its release in 1992, it's been maintained consistently updated...
SpringNotes
10/26/2025
FYI Springnotes appears to be dead. Website down, app removed from Mac App Store.
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/23/2025
Amontillado wrote:
>Satis, I don't disagree. It's a shame, though, a sort of regressive
>modernization.
Perhaps. The platformization of writing can alienate authors from their labor. But it also p...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/22/2025
The Nisus apps were removed from the Mac App Store and both nisus.com and nisustech.com are offline. From what I understand someone close to the company's owner was said to have been trying to bring t...
AI-infused
10/20/2025
Dr Andus wrote:
satis wrote:
>>Perplexity lets you select up to 10 files at once (up to 40MB each) to
>>perform cross-document queries and comparisons. It analyzes short files
>>entirely, while "lon...
AI-infused
10/20/2025
Andy Brice wrote:
>Just this morning I searched "Capri" on Google. The AI overview told me
>it is a fictional island. But it's very much a factual island.
Before I finished typing the 5-letter word...
AI-infused
10/19/2025
I've experimented with querying my own notes using Perplexity Pro, and recently started using Perplexity's Comet web browser. (Full local file integration is not yet publicly available in Comet, only ...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I believe Scrivener is a one time purchase, where as OO is a
>subscription, so Scrivener is the better deal.
That's incorrect. OmniOutliner is available *either* for a $50/y...