MadaboutDana
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nvAlt redux
Today
Yes; unfortunately the latest version is no longer simplenote-compatible (and simplenote is no longer being actively developed by Automattic, which is a real shame). But there are alterrnatives! For g...
It is a lovely app (Notetaker, that is), but I confess that it's been sitting unused on my Mac for the last few years. I can't bring myself to delete it, but I've moved over to an almost entirely mark...
nvAlt redux
Yesterday
And yes, it is indeed alive! Check out the GitHub repository at https://github.com/scrod/nv/releases/tag/v2.5.2 (it's open-source, as it always has been)
Having done a very quick compare of the two...
There's also the wonderful Growly Notes, which is totally free, looks strikingly like OneNote (the developer worked for MS back in the day), is extremely compact (tiny, tiny footprint) but does many o...
nvAlt redux
Yesterday
Good ole' Brett has been promising the all-singing, all-dancing nvUltra for years.
I fear the market may have passed him by...
Heh, well, Numbers is pretty cool, too. And if you really want a direct Excel replacement, OpenOffice is a good place to start.
I was reminded today that Understory allows you to select any number of non-contiguous notes, and their text will appear in a contiguous stream (even if they're in the Recents section rather than the ...
Hi @ikedaosamu; just two things to say about Breathink:
- the screenshots are all still in Japanese (I'm viewing it on the UK App Store), which makes it difficult to appreciate the various (clearly q...
Heh, I've been experimenting with transcluding a note inside itself when it's already been copied to multiple subnotes. I haven't managed to crash Understory yet, but I can confirm that infinitely nes...
Sumi does look very elegant, and if I was still operating in an all-Apple environment, I would be strongly tempted. But I use an Android phone and (increasingly) a Linux laptop (as well as a MacBook),...
... also the fact that the app's footprint is just 12 MB. Now that's impressive!
The only things I'm missing at the moment are:
- some way of viewing notes side by side
- clarity on top-level notes (I finally worked out, partly by reference to Reference!) that you have to create...
Oh dear, this is ridiculous – much too late in the evening to be playing with Understory, but it's fun! And to my delight, uses smart punctuation! Would that all markdown editors did so (yes, you even...
Dang, I've just exported your tutorial as a website, and it's even got a search function! That's pretty darn powerful all on its own, frankly. I shall continue to play...
It reminds me a little bit...
Ah, and there you have expressed one of the Big Issues with AI in a nutshell...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Makes me ask, "Who will do the innovating, if everyone is just imitating?"
Heh, thanks for the info about REA, @bartb; that must be a very tempting option for many coders!
And I can't help but agree with you, @Paul — lovely though so many of the latest app websites I've r...
Yes, it's happened. A software engineering team have vibe-coded almost all the key apps developed by good ole' Adobe and Microsoft.
The team, at ArtCraft (who already develop an open-source AI prod...
Good grief! I love the small footprint, but am struggling to check out the plethora of interesting outliners that have suddenly leapt out of the woodwork! Marvellous – on the one hand...
Nice to se...
Ingrid - Nested Type Grids for the Web
1 week ago
That is pretty cool. It'll be interesting to see how well that transfers to a desktop app.
Tree Outliner (another one)
1 week ago
Nice. Simple, elegant. His NoteTree app follows a similar philosophy.
Vellum ("local-first" knowledge graph)
2 weeks ago
I know this thread is about Vellum – and it does look really interesting! – but Tine has really tickled my fancy. It's an astonishingly powerful alternative to LogSeq (dare I say, what LogSeq could/sh...
Nice to see a return to Tree, which was a great app.
We've also discussed Traverse (for Mac) in this forum: also does horizontal outlining, in a slightly different way.
Novelist -- Another writing app
2 weeks ago
That's interesting — my daughter-in-law, who's a senior software engineer working for a formerly open-source company that's been very successful and now, for utterly spurious reasons, decided to base ...
Open Source Conference 2026
2 weeks ago
This isn't directly relevant to the forum, but I've just returned from the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg (where I also attended the Fair Tech Summit, held the day before). Wow, what an encourag...
Vellum ("local-first" knowledge graph)
2 weeks ago
Hot damn, Tine looks cool – like a wonderful replacement for the alas, sadly compromised LogSeq.
Thanks for that, Deb!
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