MadaboutDana
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OmniOutliner giveaway
4/1/2021
I’m finding the rapidly evolving Zavala a pleasant alternative to other desktop outliners.
It doesn’t have OmniOutliner’s columns, but the developer is very committed!
I run it on...
Oh, the only other thing to mention is that HoudahSpot effectively uses Spotlight indexing behind the scenes (it amounts to a vastly more flexible version of Spotlight, really), whereas FoxTrot Pro cr...
Well done, Andy! Impressive flexibility – it must be entertaining, adapting to an entirely new platform!
Sorry, @eurobubba, I’ve only just seen this – many apologies!
I’ve used HoudahSpot too, but there’s no real comparison between it and FoxTrot Pro. The basic version of Fo...
Obsidian mobile app in alpha testing
3/23/2021
Hm, that is impressive – and exciting!
The last infoselect user in the world
3/23/2021
Alas, so did I (after scanning the first couple of paragraphs, too). I thought a bit of leaf-turning had been going on, but no, apparently not.
Shame.
LB wrote:
Don't know. I stopped reading after ...
SpringNotes
3/22/2021
Heh, John has a real thing about “hybrid” markdown displays – ironically, SpringNotes doesn’t have one, it shows all the code as entered, but other very popular apps like NoteP...
A really interesting issue, this. Look at the timeframes involved – so short! Just a couple of decades; maybe three.
We founded our business in 1990, and data resilience has always been an issu...
Dashword
3/8/2021
It’s quite a nice little app, I must say. The most significant lacuna is a search function.
Having said that, I’ve just launched it (on macOS), and it’s not working at all. Hm. How ...
Themes are fun – and actually, much more practical than one might think. For example, the lightly modified theme I’m using adds highlighting, strikethrough and underlining.
NotePlan ...
Nice to see that Zavala supports nested tags – but folding of same would be even nicer! So rather than:
test
test/nested
you’d see:
test>
and then, after clicking on “test”...
Good news, Maurice – I was going to report a fairly significant bug in version 13.0 (lost my data repository, couldn’t work out how to enter text since Zavala started insisting that you ha...
PDF File Mgmt. Question
3/3/2021
Totally agree on (a) 300 dpi and (b) ABBYY (the Mac version of which is also awesome and embedded in high-quality apps like DEVONthink Office)
PDF File Mgmt. Question
3/1/2021
Before switching to Mac, I used PaperPort in anger (while it still belonged to, I think, Xerox?) and found it pretty good.
Dynalist enters the "hobby work" phase
2/28/2021
Good news, Erica – I’m an enthusiastic DynaList supporter!
Moo.do
2/27/2021
It is remarkably powerful, although there’s a bit of a learning curve, and the limitation to Google is what (foolishly, in retrospect) put me off. But if you treat it as a pure outliner/info man...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/26/2021
I’d agree with @Listerene – don’t get a specced-up MBA. You don’t need to! Here’s the review I mentioned before (found it in my collection of odd articles; it was 57 apps...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/26/2021
Heh, yes – even the base model with 7 instead of 8 GPU cores is ridiculously quick. One reviewer (I’m trying to remember which one) simultaneously loaded all 53 of the apps he had installe...
Tree app - macOS
2/26/2021
Good grief! I’d forgotten just how powerful Tree 2 is.
For example, I’d totally forgotten that you can mix the tree branch (horizontal) view with hierarchical outlines as you prefer. By ...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/26/2021
I know, Apple’s been soldering in the RAM and SSD storage for a few years now, to the fury of those who like to tinker with their hardware (and even those who don’t, because it enhances bu...
I was doing one of my “why can’t I find the perfect card-based notetaking system?” trawls around the Mac App Store (in short, CRIMPing), when I found a rather nice little app called ...
Tree app - macOS
2/25/2021
Yep, both versions of XMind support extensive rich-text notes, outlining, folding (in mindmaps and outlines) etc.
XMind 8 is quite expensive, but an annual subscription to XMind 2020 is USD 59 (and c...
Tree app - macOS
2/25/2021
As I play with it, however, I’m also reminded of Scapple, an app developed by the Scrivener crew. It’s like a mind-mapping app, but primarily textual, and is surprisingly powerful.
Howeve...
Tree app - macOS
2/25/2021
Ah, I’d forgotten I still had Tree 2 installed on my main MacBook. I’ve just been playing nostalgically with it. It still works (although the display margins aren’t quite right ̵...
Experience with M1 (ARM) Macs?
2/25/2021
Well, I’ve read an awful lot of reviews, and every single one (even by doubting Thomases) has been wildly enthusiastic.
I’m tempted to get a MacBook Air just to avoid heat and fan noise (...