MadaboutDana
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NotePlan 2 Preview
5/13/2019
They live in an accessible iCloud folder ("NotePlan"), with separate text (= markdown) notes in "Calendar" and "Notes" folders. So no SQLlite, no tie-in.
NotePlan 2.0
5/8/2019
... with NotePlan very slightly ahead of the game because you can open notes in separate windows (a much-requested addition to Agenda which is, for what I gather are programming reasons, unlikely to a...
The Checklist Manifesto
5/8/2019
Again, it's not an old dance, it's a very topical one.
Checklists are old news, of course. But the importance of checklists has only recently been rediscovered.
And yes, good checklists are indeed b...
The Checklist Manifesto
5/7/2019
Well, I think it's a valuable debate, simply because we're all interested in cognitive processes, and the impact of e.g. checklists (not to mention other forms of neurocerebral assistance, including e...
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
5/3/2019
Dang, PDF Search's "Export Search Results" option is rather cool. It simply exports the specific pages with search results in them, with hits highlighted. Pages from a particular document are preceded...
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
5/3/2019
As I remarked earlier, HoudahSpot is powerful, but much slower than FoxTrot (especially to view found files), and without the many additional features. FoxTrot (especially Pro) has an extraordinary ra...
Fsnotes 3
5/1/2019
This has turned into a nice app. I'm now torn between three neat Menu Bar-based options: SnipNotes, UpNote and FSNotes.
Meanwhile I continue to use UnClutter as a very convenient raw-text note reposi...
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
5/1/2019
Yes, they're not as noisy as some people (a shame, actually), but they steadily work away at it.
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
4/30/2019
Wow, that really is disk-space-friendly! I've been vaguely aware that FoxTrot's indices are very efficient, but having it spelled out like that is an eye-opener!
And yes, I've just invested in PDF Se...
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
4/30/2019
Although, alas, the SpotFiles developer appears to have given up (according to the posts on MacUpdate).
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
4/30/2019
I like your thoughtful post on relative importance criteria in search results, Dellu. Interesting point.
Oh dear, PDF Search looks very interesting, too. Love the "save search results as a second PD...
Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro
4/30/2019
Hm, that is a really interesting feature in PDF Search. I'm going to have to look at it more closely...
Re: FoxTrot
FT attaché does allow you to save copies of docs for transfer to iOS, but I co...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/30/2019
Well, I would agree, except these are properly registered charities. So they have already been vetted, at least in principle, for their own "discriminatory" behaviour. So DT could reasonably be descri...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/29/2019
Interesting! Wow, that's a rather Richard Dawkins-inspired position, I guess (a man I cordially loathe, even though I am no longer "religious" in the conventional sense). I can't see how they get away...
Off topic advice sought
4/29/2019
If you're going for an HTML/web page-based solution, you need a powerful, modern editor that can generate responsive pages.
There are now some great solutions, even for non-experts. One of the more p...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/27/2019
You're right!
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/27/2019
@Simon,
Interesting. I've moved entirely over to FoxTrot Pro recently, and I'm starting to experiment with the iOS app as well. As a replacement for DT, it's not bad – while it doesn't have the ...
Off topic advice sought
4/26/2019
We translate a number of magazines, digital and otherwise, but they're mainly for large corporates with significant resources.
I subscribe to a number of digital "magazines" of various kinds myself. ...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/26/2019
You can filter using his "smart stacks". And the search function acts as a kind of filter, since it's non-field-specific (which could be a turnoff, actually). No highlighting, alas.
And no, it doesn'...
New Bento replacement for Macs
4/25/2019
This looks really quite dinky. You could use it for all sorts of stuff.
I might have to check it out...
Good one, Andy! Wow, that's a huge improvement - and straight into the features (plus benefits)!
Bravo!
Bill
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/25/2019
Quite by chance, I stumbled across this ingenious (and, it appears, fairly recent) piece of software, based specifically on the Zettelkasten approach:
synapsen
http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/25/2019
Interesting on the smart tags front. To my disappointment, the web server - although much improved - still doesn't highlight search hits in target documents. This is a shame.
However, even the beta s...
Anyone using Zettelkasten?
4/24/2019
Yes, well said. This is where software can become dangerous - the more automated a process becomes, the less actual thought and manipulation (a vital cognitive stimulator) is involved in putting toget...
It's always interesting to know how writers work. The great C. S. Lewis (yes, I know it's fashionable to knock him nowadays, but just read "Out of the Silent Planet" or "Till We Have Faces" and tell m...