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Invasive ads
4/27/2024
I've seen the same format ads appear on other sites. They may be something injected by the hosting company, not our benefactor here.
Preferred data/attributes in OPML files
4/17/2024
The option sounds nice. Aeon Timeline supports something similar for CSV import. A window listing columns in the CSV allows mapping to any desired Aeon attribute.
Obsidian vs Logseq conundrum
4/13/2024
This is one of the things I found useful about TheBrain. Any node (thought) can have existing nodes as children, parents, or "jump" nodes.
Bernhard wrote:
The idea of a mind map is convincing at fir...
Will Obsidian search the text component of OCR'd PDFs?
Lucas wrote:
A good free option that seems to do everything you ask for, except "save
>the group content info", is:
>
>https://www.tracker-softw...
Actually, I already do that for spreadsheets. I have a Keyboard Maestro mapping that's active for Apple Numbers if the file name ends with "-text".
One approach or the other will do the trick.
OutlineEdit 3 is very pleasant to use. One thing that would be nice would be to create a multiparagraph note. When you hit return it drops back to outline mode, terminating the note.
Option-return (o...
The Archive on sale
3/16/2024
I bought The Archive a while ago to support their forum. I haven’t used it but it’s compelling in its simplicity. The Archive, as I understand, is a fork of Notational Velocity.
Probably...
Transno
3/2/2024
That sounds like the product will live on in some form. It's a shame to create orphaned users, though.
Local apps, local storage for me, and a "cloud" I connect with a usb cable.
Yes, I know. My kid...
Transno
3/1/2024
Unless there is some replacement for their app, it would be a nice gesture to open source the app and their server code.
Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)
2/23/2024
Quick update - Curio is 20 years old today. Zengobi is offering it for 20% off through the end of the month.
Mac-only, very handy for outlining and storyboarding either with graphics or text.
Fanboy? Not at all. One should be enthusiastic about tools.
Curio may have evolved some. If you want to type a text note that's 10,000 lines long, it won't be that much different than using a Markdo...
Very good points, Moritz, and I can't disagree. My use of Curio has been limited to two cases. I use it for planning or brainstorming and I like it as a math notebook. Math, unfortunately, doesn't lik...
Wikilinks and backlinks, new features to Curio, make it feel more agile. Figures (things like text frames) don't have titles. As you enter a Wikilink you search by text and tags to find what you want ...
Curio is much the same way. Two projects ship with Curio, a user guide and a getting started/tutorial walkthrough.
I think the unflattering nerd lingo for that is eating your own dog food.
But in th...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/20/2023
Absolutely agree on the suitability of XML. That's what Mellel uses, too.
XML also makes for what probably amounts to an open format, or at least it should.
SoftMaker's word processor is said to be...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/19/2023
I like Scrivener in principle. At one time I was an enthusiastic user. The company behind Scrivener is truly an independent writer's friend, something that can also said of the company behind Ulysses ...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/19/2023
My separation with Word in my personal life came long ago. I tried to use master documents. Back then, it was extremely easy to entangle subdocuments. The wise Word enthusiast, at least back then, pre...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/19/2023
I hear you, but there is still a reason writers turn to Scrivener, Ulysses, Markdown editors, and other text handling tools like pandoc.
The goal is to write. The tool should be a background item. Fo...
Mellel 6 released (Mac only)
12/14/2023
Mellel 6 has been released. It's been through a fairly long beta cycle and has been extremely solid for me.
Anyone looking at Mellel for the first time will likely get befuddled by Auto-titles.
I th...
iA physical (paper) notebook
12/9/2023
I wish iA Writer allowed custom ordering of files in the Library pane. That would make it like a minimalist Ulysses.
As far as relevance for the iA Writer paper notebook in a digital world, I'd say i...
The Brain Cyber Monday sale
11/23/2023
I believe if Excalibrain resonates with you TheBrain will, too, and I think you'll find it will be low friction.
Tempting, that offer. Would like to hear how it works out for you if you start using T...
Oh, good tip. Definitely a good solution.
What I like, though, is for a document to be independent of any particular style choices of the moment.
Probably more than is needed in an outlining tool, I...
OmniOutliner has per-level styles. They are quirky but once you see how they work they do what they are supposed to.
You can't save OmniOutliner styles, so you can't save a particular setup and then ...
1 Diagramming software like Scapple, but with notes connectable to multiple parts of the map?
11/5/2023
Curio has a feature that might be interesting.
Every item in Curio (called figures in Curio-speak) has a number of attributes including a jump action.
If you right click on a text box (figure), mind...
A critique of tagging
11/5/2023
I’m out of free Medium articles, so I can’t check. Wasn’t that anti-tagging article written in something like 2017?
Seeing the value of tags is not as intuitive as it would seem. I...