MadaboutDana
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Obsidian Sync
1/9/2023
I sync via iCloud, so far without any issues (indeed, at the moment, Obsidian syncs more reliably than Apple's own Notes product, which is somewhat disconcerting! Even though it's using the inferior "...
Tana?
1/9/2023
Always worth bearing in mind that Numbers does one-pane outlining (with columns) pretty well too ;-)
Lucas wrote:
From the looks of it, it appears that Tana will be joining the tiny,
>elite club of m...
Obsidian Sync
1/4/2023
Ditto. All desktop versions of Obsidian include a context menu option to "View in Finder/Explorer", meaning you can open your files directly in your local file manager and process them as you wish.
s...
TickTick steadily improves
1/3/2023
The inexorable enhancement of TickTick continues, as it gains GANTT charts.
The app has become probably the most complete task management app of any in existence. You can now view lists of tasks as s...
## I bought the new Pomera DM250
12/29/2022
It's a nice device, and I've gazed covetously upon it, but have found a very acceptable and much cheaper alternative!
1) Buy yourself a cheap Android mobile, ideally running not less than Android 11....
New app, Bike
12/22/2022
Congratulations, Jesse, on being awarded a "Best App Runner-Up" award by MacStories. Very warm words were said about Bike (link here: https://www.macstories.net/stories/macstories-selects-2022-recogni...
New app, Bike
12/21/2022
I agree – it's not critical, but it would speed up certain kinds of action, especially in very large documents.
However, I've been experimenting and having some success with "microtags", b...
New app, Bike
12/21/2022
Okay, having just had a quick play with OutlineEdit, I'd say the main difference between the two is that OutlineEdit is a true outliner – i.e., that's all it does. And it does it very well....
New app, Bike
12/21/2022
I would prefer not to describe such tools as "better" or "worse" than one another; the philosophy behind OutlineEdit is, I suspect, rather different from that of Bike, which is minimalist by design, a...
New app, Bike
12/20/2022
Rather impressed by the way internal links in Bike don't just refer to rows, but will also open other files. That is, if you've created a link to a row in another file, you can close that file, and if...
New app, Bike
12/20/2022
Ah, okay – I didn't spot the "Copy as OPML" option – that's cool.
Useful to know you can also save duplicate files in another format; also slightly unusual.
Thanks for that!
I have to say, it does sound a little overcomplicated to me.
My own setup is rather simpler – I won't say better, because that setup probably works extremely well for the author.
I'm still try...
New app, Bike
12/20/2022
... what Bike could do with is support for tagging. That's because you can create very, very large texts/outlines in Bike, and having some way to zoom in on specific rows would be invaluable. I'm curr...
New app, Bike
12/20/2022
Ah, yes, that's something that could usefully be added: a simple "Back" key somewhere in the top chrome (or maybe a "Back/Forward" key combination plus an "Up/Down" key combination).
But actually, i...
New app, Bike
12/19/2022
Hm, now I'm working with the latest version of Bike in "anger", I'm actually quite impressed. There are a lot of subtle, well-thought-out features in here! Also, some steady development, which is grea...
Discourse map!
12/16/2022
It does indeed. The trouble is, the concept of "spreadsheet" has been dominated by first Lotus, then Microsoft Excel for so long, the novel approach adopted by Apple totally failed to impinge on gener...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
Comments in Freeform are horribly constrained. They're a separate type of thing in Numbers – always attached to another object. That's because you can format Numbers text boxes in many diff...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
... in fact, I've just upgraded my system and have been playing with Freeform. To my very considerable amusement, the only thing Freeform does which Numbers doesn't do is support third-party files (wh...
Discourse map!
12/15/2022
Nah, it really did (does!). People don't realise that the underlying Numbers concept is precisely that: a gigantic blank object-oriented canvas (with no apparent limits, according to my own experiment...
It is astonishing, you're absolutely right. I'm amazed to find myself taking to it like a duck to water; I'm normally very suspicious of apps like this, because they can so easily turn into rambling c...
I'd be happy to share what I've learned/done so far. It'll have to wait a bit so I can get the details right.
I too have started to use the kanban plugin as a kind of tag/subject tracker – ...
Discourse map!
12/14/2022
Although it's worth reminding people that Apple Numbers already did all this stuff, but had an accessible repository (in iCloud; you can't access Freeform files directly) and was also collaborative
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I've steadily converted all my task management duties over to Obsidian.
It takes a while to master core plugins like Tasks, or external plugins like Dataview, but boy is it worth it.
Finding a "perf...
Purelist
12/6/2022
A very nice discovery for Mac, iPhone and iPad (sorry, Windows/Linux users!): Purelist is one of the neatest note-takers and task managers I've discovered – the only flaw is no folding inside li...
Funnily enough, I was just wondering about precisely such a feature as I thought how wonderful it would be to combine Obsidian notes with something like my Apple Numbers whiteboard layout.
And behold...