Amontillado
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The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
11/26/2020
Wow, that Pomodoro article wandered a bit, didn't it?
Not that there isn't precedent in some of my own work, and culinary tasks can sometimes benefit from exactly that organizational technique. Just ...
TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started
11/20/2020
I never felt speed was a problem.
Trying to recall my Brain days, I think there's a speed setting for animations. Maybe you have that set slow and it takes its time migrating from one node to the nex...
Hyper Plan - interesting feature
11/11/2020
I've looked at Hyper Plan in the past, thought it was cool, but didn't quite click the buy button.
This morning I downloaded the free trial and discovered something that I should have realized.
Hype...
I use a Mac. If I right-click on an entry in the Library I get a context menu that includes "Copy >".
Hover on Copy and I get another menu with different forms of copy, including copy library path.
...
The transclusion feature has a quirk or two, but I don't think they are too bad.
It doesn't seem to like folders and sub-folders in the Locations or Favorites areas.
In any case, you have to use the...
Wow - I just got that to work. I tried it and got nothing, as I had in the past, then I tried to export it to PDF and got a warning transcluded files have to be in the library.
Fortunately, since I a...
Good food for thought here. I had a fling with Mellel, but couldn't set Nisus aside because I need mail merge. Every once in a while I'd cast around for a stand-alone mail merge utility but nothing ev...
Docxmanager, looks nice
11/1/2020
Fiction at its best holds characters to the ideal of show, don't tell.
To my eye, Edwin Yip follows that maxim in real life.
My replacement license key arrived a few hours ago, based on a purchase o...
Interesting. I've been casting around for something to run under Windows because my work environment is Windows even though all my taget systems are Linux.
I see they have an outliner too, which uses...
TheBrain 12 - Beta Testing Started
10/18/2020
I was a Brain addict for years. The expense and data loss (version 8, I think) I had drove me away.
Looks like I might have to reconsider. I still think of tagging sort of like having jump thoughts.
Roam Patrol!
10/15/2020
Lots of alternatives these days. Amazing how dated OneNote looks, too. It's a shame Microsoft didn't pursue it more aggressively.
Docxmanager, looks nice
9/24/2020
I think his product has evolved quite a bit.
From my view, the same wariness should be applied to Word.
For at least a decade after the master document feature was released, Word would irrevocably c...
macOS Checklist App
9/24/2020
Lack of repeats was why I set Taskpaper aside, then I discovered its Javascript support.
I use this script for repeating tasks - https://github.com/dannynelson/taskpaper-repeat/releases
You put that...
macOS Checklist App
9/23/2020
I'm moving from OmniFocus to Taskpaper. If you look at is and it seems to be underpowered, it supports Javascript extensions.
I'm using a Javascript file to provide automatically repeating tasks. It ...
E-mail backup for Mac users
9/21/2020
Hey, Bill, I back up my email with Devonthink. The archive versus import thing is worth reading about, but after some initial adjustments to how DT does that, it seems to be doing a reasonable job.
O...
Docxmanager, looks nice
8/31/2020
Graham Rhind wrote:
Yep, and its predecessor. I'm not sure what the "serious complaints"
>were...
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I believe the initial release, a long time ago, was recalled. My recollection was full refunds w...
Docxmanager, looks nice
8/28/2020
Docxmanager - https://docxmanager.com - is the outgrowth, as i understand, of the Word extension, Writing Outliner.
I've communicated in the past with Edwin Yip, who seems to have cheerfully clung to...
I found Vonnegut’s insights on the beginning/electricity axis rivaled the insight of Einstein, that day in later life when he postulated a theoretical justification for barbers. Alas, the revela...
I'll confess the use of spreadsheets for outlining was quite interesting, yet initially not for me. I still think my use case for outlining is different than Washere's, but that's a good thing because...
Spreadsheets are very flexible things. My oldest son got good recognition at work from Visual Basic macros he wrote for Excel.
If you're on a Mac you might find Apple Numbers could fit your use prett...
Lack of up-to-date outliners
7/31/2020
WaryJerry wrote:
1. I've read through all the posts and advice on here over several
>years, looking for a Windows outliner that is still available, without
>any luck.
I've got hopes for the next ver...
SheetPlanner 2.0 Beta 1
7/26/2020
Wow - thanks, Peter!
SheetPlanner 2.0 Beta 1
7/24/2020
The smart filter issue was a user issue, I believe. When you click the 'save' button, the action to complete the save operation is to hit the enter key on the name. I was clicking the 'save' button a ...
SheetPlanner 2.0 Beta 1
7/24/2020
I think you can skip the step where I created the bootable USB device, although that's probably not a bad "in case of emergency" thing to have, anyway.
The Catalina download left an installer in my A...
SheetPlanner 2.0 Beta 1
7/23/2020
I need to try that! :-)
If anyone wants to know how to create a alternate Mac environment, Googling didn't get a clear step-by-step for me.
But it's easy. The steps I took were I downloaded but did ...