Amontillado
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Future proofing is something I thought a lot about yesterday. I discovered a couple of new-to-me functions in vim. I stared into the rabbit hole and the rabbit hole stared back. I spent all evening ex...
Let's hope Tinderbox lasts a long, long time.
One of the things your app has going for it is a remarkable user community, intellectual, polite, and very helpful. I've never made it to one of your me...
Well, there's an obvious answer. Create a Markdown file for each PDF and embed the PDF in the Markdown.
Or, as I like to say, three lines of Python for a boatload of PDFs.
The new Obsidian Bases feature might hold some promise. Right now, you can have as many views of your data as you want, provided all you want are table views.
Imagine adding Canvas views to Bases. Do...
Hard to argue - well said.
I use Curio and would like to use it more. I believe the latest version, which I can't run on my antique Macs, has wider support for external files, putting it closer to ap...
MacOS 26? I guess my version 12 is pretty far in Apple's rear view mirror.
It's the newest version I can run. I'm starting to think about moving my life out of certain key Mac apps into things I can ...
novelWriter
6/10/2025
That looks pretty cool. There are definitely many paths to enlightenment.
The last few days I've been wondering if there are better tools for how I like to work. CRIMPing. I might be headed toward a ...
Andy Brice wrote:
Ps/ Nothing lasts forever. Even the sun is going to burn out,
>eventually.
This was a scary thought. Then I checked.
Finding a running computer might be tough after Sol wheezes o...
I think I'd add Devonthink to the list of future proof, or at least future tolerant, apps. At first glance, it looks like everything disappears into a proprietary database. In reality, the database fi...
Pocket is closing down
5/25/2025
Devonthink has browser extensions for Safari and Chrome. I use Safari, which probably means I guzzle too much Apple koolaid.
It will capture a web page as a bookmark, which is a link stored in Devont...
Darren, you do me great honor.
Devonthink support often says they don't believe DT is a note-taking app but I don't understand why it isn't.
For note-taking, I imagine I use it much the way Obsidian...
I believe this might be addressed by the Obsidian option to put attachments elsewhere other than in the current folder with the document.
Devonthink remains my go-to for organizing information. I thi...
I've looked again at Obsidian and I agree. It's very nice and I think certain key plugins, like Dataview, have gotten a lot stronger.
Dataview was nothing but frustration when I first looked at it. N...
Urtext
5/6/2025
Looks interesting. My first thought was I might be able to sneak this in on my work system where my only note-taking app is OneNote. I have become most steadfastly not a OneNote fan. It was so nice, w...
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/5/2025
Sigh. They always forget Curio. George works hard, if he's not the most responsive developer on the Internet he's tied for it, and Curio has such a long history.
Book "Thinking with Tinderbox"
4/24/2025
My Macs are ten years old this year, still going strong, no gripes, but they don't run anything newer than Monterey.
If my rent houses will give me any peace, I'll be in a position to replace them in...
I believe Tinderbox has a timeline view. Very strong community support, but also has a certain learning curve.
On the other hand, I don't think it takes any knowledge of Tinderbox's scripting languag...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Agreed. I need to retreat to my home turf, Linux, or I need to get new Macs.
Because Devonthink is critical to me, I think I'll overspend on a Macbook and use it like a desktop, too.
Oh, well, ten y...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Something was definitely amiss, which is a shame.
EagleFiler, if I understand correctly, is a database used to reference regular files on your filesystem. DT is the same thing, really.
If you go to ...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
I'll have to buy a new Mac to run DT4, unfortunately. My ten year old Macs can't run recent versions of MacOS.
The AI stuff is worrisome, although the see-also functionality is really nice in DT3. Th...
thoughts on outlining and transclusion
3/31/2025
I'm having tremendous fun with outlining via transclusion. By separating factoids from narrative, I seem to avoid a big trap.
If I outline in a traditional way, I tend to over-outline, completely kil...
Johnny.Decimal
2/22/2025
I think Johnny Decimal is pretty cool, but I also think it proves an axiom. Any system will work to at least some degree as long as you have a system. I'm not trying to be snarky and I respect the tho...
MyInfo Is My Choice
1/25/2025
Very timely discussion.
I'm writing a self help book on how to get out of debt. A thoroughly cheerless topic, but one I had to deal with. I'm now debt free with a credit rating as high as my golf han...
Amplenote
1/22/2025
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Yes, the 'toilet paper' paradigm :)
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Employed by Jack Kerouac for On The Road, a book I've never read, written on a roll of paper fed through his typewriter.
Kind of ...
BYOK app
1/8/2025
One of the reasons I liked my old Neo was it was more replaceable than my laptop. I could carry it on my open sailboat in a dry bag and write while beached somewhere. Not the environment I would want ...