MadaboutDana
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Saga is a notes app similar to Notion
5/26/2022
Looks like a really nice app – there doesn't appear to be an offline desktop/mobile version, however.
You're welcome, Darren – I'm also delighted to see Novellus back again!
And the Novellus developer has taken the opportunity of tidying up/modernising the UI, too – it looks a good deal better than it did.
Great stuff!
Aha! Novellus is back! And it's been updated for Apple Silicon – a good sign that it's not died off or been abandoned!
A nice, low-price Scrivener/Ulysses alternative is available in the M...
New app, Bike
5/20/2022
Ah, see, that confirms the OS-specific thing. I've just taken a couple of moments to test Bear, iaWriter and Nota.
On my M1 machine, they're all more or less as fast as each other, even when I resiz...
New app, Bike
5/20/2022
Interesting, Jesse, thanks for the feedback. I'd be happy to run these tests again – it's perfectly true that actually editing the middle of a very large document separates the sheep from t...
New app, Bike
5/19/2022
Very interesting. Maybe that reflects on Ulysses's decision to use a database as the back end? I must say I do prefer apps that handle their files "externally", as it were. It's so much easier to prev...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
I was checking through Hog Bay's posts, of which there are (currently) only two, and found the "Moby Dick" files Jesse uses to test the speed of, yes, you guessed it, Bike (and other apps).
And just ...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
... although Bike does have a search function after all, and it works quite well.
Yeah-but, no-but...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
Well quite.
Oh, yes, I'd forgotten OutlineEdit – another excellent and powerful app.
Not to mention entertaining outriders like NoteTaker!
Who needs yet another mildly entertaining but...
New app, Bike
5/18/2022
Heh, bravo MacSE.
As it stands, Bike is quite nice. But that's it. It's a text outliner.
FoldingText was amazing – still is amazing, actually. But no longer developed or even mentioned by Hog ...
Privacy Question
5/17/2022
I confess I know nothing about web beacons. As a Mac user, I tend to rely on Safari's increasingly heavyweight suppression of naughty trackers to protect me (as well as MalwareBytes and AVG!). A coupl...
KeepIt vs Notebooks vs FSnotes
5/16/2022
I have to say, Keep It V2 has really grown on me, especially with Finder integration. I've resubscribed (no, no, don't even *mention* Ulysses!)
Dellu wrote:
Thank you Bill. That is right.
>
>Another...
KeepIt vs Notebooks vs FSnotes
5/16/2022
Worth bearing in mind that Keep It also has tags. There's a tag filter you can apply to any folder, including the "All Items" folder – the filter appears at the bottom of the list of docume...
Good grief! You're right, that's certainly evolved. Oh dear – no, no, I don't wanna look! No – more – subscriptions!
satis wrote:
MadaboutDana wrote:
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>> unlike certain a...
And if you want to stay with a OneNote-a-like model, it's worth bearing Outline (macOS, iOS) in mind; it's OneNote-compatible and has been quietly developing away in the background for quite a few yea...
Musings on tools for thought
5/12/2022
Heh, I mention Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" once again simply because Newton is one of the major characters in it – as are a number of leading 17th century geniuses, including the asto...
@satis – I agree, for a relatively new app, it's extremely polished. And unlike certain apps (koff – Ulysses), its search function also searches through the cards. The lack of an iOS ...
Apart from the differences Dellu mentions, OneNote is also a very different animal in terms of its note-taking setup, which is based on a whiteboard concept. The Keep It editor is a much more standard...
Hm, I stopped using KeepIt some time ago due to various frustrations, but the list of features in the new version 2.0 is making me dribble (slightly; I'm trying not to be unseemly!).
Check it out, Ma...
Darren, Lattics has just been updated in the Mac App Store with copious apologies for the crashing issue you described in your earlier post.
They come across as very responsive!
Cheers,
Bill
Musings on tools for thought
5/11/2022
Thanks for your two replies, Dellu – both very sensible.
I was amazed and impressed to hear that Neal Stephenson deliberately eschewed his usual digital knowledge bases when putting togeth...
Musings on tools for thought
5/11/2022
Heh, I love this thought!
Paul Korm wrote:
It's likely that more of what we consider the modern world came about
>because of people simply sitting with a piece of paper and a pencil and
>thinking.
>
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Musings on tools for thought
5/10/2022
Oh dear, forget my own head next. Here's the link: https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
Musings on tools for thought
5/10/2022
A very nice blog post by Maggie Appleton on "Tools for Thought". Plenty of meaty stuff to get your teeth into!
22111 should enjoy, too – she agrees with you about quite a lot of things!
C...