MadaboutDana
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NotePlan 2 Preview
5/13/2019
Wow, that's a trick I didn't know! Thanks!
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...