NickG
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- 2/1/2025
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The Checklist Manifesto
5/8/2019
I must say that, as a relative newbie here, I'm finding this discussion a little peculiar. Checklists are a tool and, like all tools, they're good for certain purposes (insert screamingly obvious anal...
Devonthink 3 Beta
4/30/2019
It's been fine for me. Bugs and data loss have been less of a challenge than getting my head around changes in workflow.
But - backup backup backup. And don't run DT 2 and 2 alongside each other.
Oh...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/30/2019
1. "Discriminatory" is a very loaded term and, in my opinion, completely unfair. A commercial user could just as well argue that DT are "discriminating" against commercial organisations and people by ...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/26/2019
All very true - I only posted that caution because, in my previous post, I'd said that there had been no reported instances of loss -
Hugh wrote:
Apologies to anyone for whom my post above may have ...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/26/2019
And then I go to the forum and see a post concerning data loss.
https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt3-warning-possible-bug-resulting-in-loss-of-data/46477/2
NickG wrote:
They're emphasising...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/26/2019
They're emphasising that it's a beta - not simply early access. If I were in your position, I wouldn't risk it yet.
That said, there are no public reports of data los ( a whole 2 days after the beta ...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/25/2019
I was initially given $99 vs $199 to u/g from Pro Office 3 to Pro, $399 vs $499 for server.
Because I'm working in universities, I was able to get a lower price ($74.25/$299). I'm pondering whether t...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/24/2019
Nice to see, but it looks as if I'll lose the web server (gets info into Curio) - the price hike to the server edition is too great
The Checklist Manifesto
4/24/2019
I've also read it. Its target is avoidance of error rather than productivity or time management, although there are some crossovers. In my work as a project manager, I've found checklists hugely helpf...
Tinderbox 8 is released
4/15/2019
In defence of Tinderbox, let me say this. It's the only note-taker I've come across that allows me to (a) just get the data in without having to think *at all* about organisation or structure in advan...
One outliner for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
4/11/2019
Paul Korm wrote:
I think Outline has outlived its usefulness. It seemed to start life
>as a OneNote viewer when OneNote was not available on Mac.
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It has one significant use for me - it ca...
Nimbus Note looks as if someone went back to where Evernote started to drift and built from there. It looks nice - I'm not sure if I'll use it one term because I'm embedded in DevonTHINK, but it's cer...
Curio 13 has been released
4/3/2019
I don't agree, and I think devs are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Omni Group go the other way (incremental updates for several years and then a major new version) and they get hammered (...
The Case for Using a Paper Planner
3/30/2019
I've been using a Traveler's Notebook for a couple of years and it works well for me. It's compact enough to have with me all the time, but the pages are big enough to be useful for serious note-takin...
SheetPlanner 1.1 Beta
3/20/2019
Also, he's very responsive to questions, via mail, on Facebook and via the App Store.
Amontillado wrote:
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>The other reason is because the developer posted here. The tone of this
>place is nice, an...
SheetPlanner 1.1 Beta
3/20/2019
Separate files. I'm finding SP quite useful as an initial planning tool. Haven't yet go to the point of using it as a day-to-day task manager
Amontillado wrote:
Looks nice!
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>Are projects kept in f...
@Polywick Studio
Here's something for your reference before you continue making threats here:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
To save you the effort of actually reading i...
If you don't know it, Eric Berne's "Games People Play" has a lot that's interesting to say about all this. Style is a bit dry and it's from the early 1960s, but if you have the time (ha!) it's worth i...
Aquaminds Notetaker
1/18/2019
I have some sympathy with this. Notetaker was, for all practical purposes, dead until this new version was proposed (I researched it when CPN died). I signed up for notifications but have not yet seen...
Everdo: VERY nice cross-platform GTD app
10/5/2018
I signed up for the beta program about a year ago. It's a nice app in many ways, but:
- No IOS app yet
- No encrypted sync yet
- Odd (to my eyes) UI on the Mac
- Limited import/export - I want my not...
Omnifocus 3.0 to come out Monday
9/25/2018
If I've understood your last question properly ("Will Omnifocus open an arbitrary database file?) - OF is built on the assumption that you have a single database. It is possible, but not easy, to crea...
Omnifocus 3.0 to come out Monday
9/24/2018
I've used Things, 2Do, Todoist and Omnifocus. Heres my (personal) take on them:
Things: *Very* easy to use, almost zero effort of entry into the Things way of working. Lovely to look at.Excellent syn...
Evernote in trouble?
9/20/2018
The other important reason is that AWS or similar are variable costs - if you're struggling for finance, you may not want to or be able to accept the fixed cost of establishing your own data centre(s)...
Evernote in trouble?
9/19/2018
I think Evernote's problems are:
- Uncertainty among users created by EN's unpredictable shifts in strategy and pricing.
- Unclear USP - they started as a zero-friction, any-platform info capture ap...
SheetPlanner Beta 6
9/19/2018
On Start, Finish, Due and Completed dates:
If you use SP as a task manager (like Omnifocus, 2Do etc), Start & Due are the obvious choices, with a Completed (or Finished) option.
If you're using SP a...