Amontillado
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Author looks very interesting. I see it supports some kind of mind map. I must investigate!
I live in Mac and Linux. Fair warning, there's a bias that follows me around.
I don't think I'll ever leave Mellel. A Keyboard Maestro macro shuts down all the UI, leaving me with a writing environme...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/28/2025
I see at the moment the Nisus site delivers a bad gateway error indicating the server behind an application gateway is in need of a little care.
Or, that could be spinoff from this morning. Godaddy a...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/24/2025
I'm fine with a certain nerdy view of future proofing. If I can recover my work with a terminal window, the Finder, and possibly a few lines of Python, I'm not worried.
If there's a wild-eyed raggedy...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/23/2025
I am nothing if not a bundle of contradiction. Eliminating distraction boosts productivity. I like to write in a text window without menus, toolbars, status bars - just me and my prose.
At the same t...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/22/2025
Satis, I don't disagree. It's a shame, though, a sort of regressive modernization.
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/22/2025
I've been visiting the Nisus forums pretty often. They have been dormant for a year, as has been customer support.
I was once very smitten with Nisus. I've kept watch at its bedside.
Today, both Nis...
AI-infused
10/20/2025
Just curious - how would one concatenate all the markdown files in Windows.
Linux and Mac are easy - in a terminal window, cd to the Obsidian vault and run find . -name \*.md -exec cat {} >> bulk.txt...
Yes, very nice to see your post, Dr. Andus.
It was one of your posts that caught my eye via Google and brought me here. Any way you could be lured back?
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I can't really help, oth...
A Mac version of InfoQube would be pretty cool, too. ;-)
You are right about price. I was thinking about features when I called OO a poor man's Scrivener. You can write in subdocuments and re-order them. Mellel will do the same thing with full-featured word...
I was enthusiastic about OmniOutliner, then uninstalled it in a fit of pique.
OmniFocus graduated beyond the OS I could run on my 2015 iMac and OmniGroup seemed to be sidelining what I think is their...
AI-infused
10/3/2025
AI would be a great way to learn about physics, but I'd like to qualify that and I would prefer human instructors, either in person or by proxy of book.
From any source, just don't take anything at f...
AI-infused
10/2/2025
Whether or not I'm a Luddite is a question I respectfully defer to others. I prefer to write with a fountain pen over a ballpoint, so feel free to have harsh opinions.
I would rather create with the ...
AI-infused
10/1/2025
I've expressed doubts about AI hype. My doubts remain, so perhaps I'm a Luddite. Or, maybe sometimes traditional skills offer benefits beyond the immediate gains of newer methods.
Slide rules aren't ...
AI-infused
9/30/2025
My concern is the validity of training material. I can be very careful, but the next guy won't be. Experience, or maybe paranoia, suggests I'll be outrun, hobbled by my conservative nature and margina...
AI-infused
9/27/2025
I suspect you, too, have had a deck returned to you scrambled after a reader jam!
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>>Frankly, it's enough to make me want to stop bathing, get a ratty robe,
>>an...
AI-infused
9/25/2025
LinkedIn is widely reported to start forwarding their user data to Microsoft for AI training.
Opt out now, before it's too late.
The actual LinkedIn announcement said the training would start in Eur...
Tinderbox goes AI
8/17/2025
AI is pretty amazing, particularly if your definition of "amazing" includes a tinge of terror.
Or at least humor.
Yesterday, I wrote a letter that weighed 0.995 ounces by my scales. It could easily ...
Hyper Plan
7/25/2025
Many thanks to Andy Brice for today's update to Hyper Plan. I use it daily.
For instance, a threat scanner produces a spreadsheet of machines, vulnerabilities, and a bunch of trivia I don't really ne...
I have the same war concerns about Mellel.
Your mileage may (and probably should) vary.
I don't want to let tyranny change my life. Bold words, particularly if the missiles started landing in my bac...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/3/2025
Happy to share, but it's not rocket science.
The properties I use are Title, Status, Due, Cycle, Priority, and Budget. Setting the bin size to month for Due helps, and the colors for Due walk from da...
Pretty much completely agree about Obsidian. One thing I wish for in Obsidian is global community plugins. It would be nice not to have duplicate copies of plugins in each vault.
I have projects that...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/2/2025
I use HyperPlan daily as a control panel and running budget for bills as they come due, and it's really cool for creating an instant multi-mode checklist for things like server maintenance. Nothing fa...
Zettelkasten in Obsidian experience
6/28/2025
Nice article!
I'm not a disciplined Zettelkasten purist. The Zettel methods inspire me, nonetheless.
For instance, at work I got tasked with writing a vim tutorial. That was easy enough. It's a text...