Amontillado
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Neil Larson / MaxThink
1 week ago
Regarding age and cognition, knowledge management has to be good stimulus.
Seek mental challenge. It's good for you at any age. I'm not qualified to have an opinion, but I believe I see a differenc...
SilverBullet
3 weeks ago
Well said, @satis. You're right about the market. I enjoy using more fundamental tools. If all I had for a word processor was vim, life would go on.
SilverBullet
3 weeks ago
I heard from someone on Brett Terpstra's mailing list that nvUltra is said to be nearing release. Whether that's near as in the way Alpha Centauri crowds Sol on a cosmic scale or just around the corne...
Apps for Retirement
4 weeks ago
I kept a Tinderbox subscription for years, mostly because I support their efforts. It's a grand project and worth becoming fluent in - but I never did.
Mr. Bernstein, if you're out there, many kudo...
The Brain goes free for basic version
6/24/2026
Paul Korm wrote:
>I've been with TheBrain since version 4, whenever that was, even through the rewrite around version 8 or 9 which seemed to break the major features. The small team has gradually r...
The Brain goes free for basic version
6/24/2026
The Brain was my first knowledge management/story planning tool, and I loved it. Jump thoughts are brilliant.
There were problems somewhere around version 9 for me and I lost data. The last I looke...
Miss the old VooDooPad?
6/20/2026
I'd say MPU dropped a little in value. There is a world of difference between initiative and abusive marketing.
GetDoneNow - a focus timer that asks you to validate your focus every 5 minutes (feedback welcome)
6/15/2026
I'm a little with Paul on this one. Every five minutes would be more of an interruption than anything else.
That's not saying there isn't a market for your app as-is. I sometimes use a timeclock ap...
True, very nice.
I can't install any personal software on my work laptop. My official note-taking resource is One Note, which is a train wreck. I could deal with it if searching weren't so incredib...
Database for MacOS
6/7/2026
Apple Pages will read an Apple Numbers spreadsheet as a merge source. Printing to labels from a Numbers spreadsheet merged into a Pages document should be an easy exercise. You can find Pages template...
Database for MacOS
6/5/2026
Ninox may be more polished than TapForms, but I hate to say anything bad about TapForms. It's about the only choice for an old school database app.
However, Ninox puts your databases where it wants...
Roam Research -- Recent Experience?
5/29/2026
I can assure you that I am not an AI or a celebrity — I am a real human. Let's delve into your concerns. AI is not about hallucinations, it's about banana pudding. Your trust is a testament to aerodyn...
Roam Research -- Recent Experience?
5/22/2026
Dr. Andrus' posts were the reason I first started watching this forum. Banning his (her? We've never met) brand of thinking would have to be an indicator of a rash actor.
The key to power in knowl...
Forum redesign
5/8/2026
Fascinating how discussion has enjoyed a resurgence since the redesign.
It's like X, except without having to filter through all the flat earth drivel and claims AI is conscious.
Or, maybe it is...
Nice - I'm going to have to check that out.
I wish vendors were more up front with where data is stored. MWeb has a library feature that relieves the user from worrying about file names or location...
All-In-One solution?
5/6/2026
> My favorite all time note/task fusion is OneNote/Outlook.
I hope this doesn't come off as a rant. I really don't mean it that way.
OneNote's early days seemed like the one thing Microsoft got ...
iA Writer is very pleasant to use and I like the Wordpress publish feature.
It is not without rough edges. It can crash. I've never lost work, and it happens when I'm fiddling with its locations.
...
SheetPlanner 5.3
4/16/2026
This sounds like a big deal:
- A row can appear under multiple groups, e.g. if grouping on Tags and a row has multiple tags.
I crave an outliner that will do the same thing, although an OmniOutl...
Forum redesign
4/16/2026
This is nice!
No, I need to edit this - it's really nice!
OmniOutliner Automation Made Simple
3/21/2026
Automation in OmniOutliner is pretty cool, no matter how you get there. All apps should be scriptable, and OO's Javascript makes a lot more sense to me than Applescript.
That may make me a heretic, s...
FINAL|FINAL - an
3/13/2026
In line tasks! Very nice.
I looked at Tana a little, but was put off by all the AI.
My dream outliner lets me outline and keep a repository of notes, all integrated together.
You are wise to steer clear of Word's outline mo...
Arg. You're right. In my defense, I didn't use a calculator and slipped a few decimal places.
Many thanks for the correction.
Unless I goofed again, Hubbard will still burn 158 billion cubic meters ...
AI paralyzes me. I know in my gut we're going to see a stock market hit at least as big as the housing bubble. That took out half the market's value.
I'm paralyzed because I can't bring myself to clo...
Mailing lists and OmniOutliner
2/16/2026
Mail merge is handy for things like when Congress is begging for a whup-down, which generally happens on those times when a weekday ends in "Y".
I've been using a spreadsheet. Columns are added for g...