MadaboutDana

New version of StickyBrain 11/28/2015

Reluctant as I am to inadvertently push any CRIMPing buttons, I feel I should mention that the Chronos app StickyBrain has recently been rewritten from scratch in Swift, Apple's new programming langua...

Happy Thanksgiving 11/27/2015

Ditto, with two exceptions: don't stay at home, and go for the banoffee pie... ;-) Bill

Shiny, sparkly! 11/24/2015

This is absolutely – well, very little – to do with outlining as such, but it's such a wonderfully clever and freeform tool I thought I'd mention it anyway. I've recently been playing wit...

Quiver for Mac reaches version 3 11/19/2015

Agreed. In fact, you can create truly elegant wikis. Personally, I like the note-linking approach used in Quiver – what would be *really* cool is a cell-linking option. Plus hierarchical tags. B...

Quiver for Mac reaches version 3 11/18/2015

Dang, that's quite cool! I haven't played with this particular form of markup before. Time to have a go!

Happy 20th Birthday Blackwell Idealist 11/18/2015

I did use Qercus for a while, but didn't find the scripting side quite as intuitive as Idealist. But it was a valiant attempt at something very similar. Sadly seems to be languishing.

Quiver for Mac reaches version 3 11/18/2015

I'm delighted by the new release. Suddenly Quiver is looking really mature, and the new note-taking options are amazing. I'm just hoping the developer is still working on the iOS version - he was ver...

Manuscripts 1.0 11/16/2015

Really rather powerful. I've only had a very brief chance to play (busy at the moment), but it's a fully equipped authoring program, from what I've seen, with some really nice features (and it does no...

Happy 20th Birthday Blackwell Idealist 11/16/2015

It was - still is, clearly - one of the great DBMS. When we first launched our business, our entire (networked) in-house admin system was built on Idealist. Not the target use case, no, but the simple...

Manuscripts 1.0 11/16/2015

Thanks for that - looks fascinating. I shall have a play!

TaskPaper 3? 11/16/2015

Well, I'm glad to report that it works well with El Capitan! Seems pretty stable, from the little bit of tyre-kicking I've done so far. And yes, it's got folding! Whoopee! Just a shame it hasn't got ...

TaskCard appears 11/13/2015

An interesting app I downloaded some time ago, NoteCard, has been revived as an astonishingly capable Mac app that can handle notes, outlines and lists. But it also has a really unusual use model: it...

A quick update on OutlineEdit 11/13/2015

I used OutlineEdit to take notes in a client meeting just last week, and drew some interested comments. So yes, do keep up the good work. And laying the groundwork for a great iOS version now is a go...

Outlines Outloud 11/11/2015

That's actually quite cool. I'm a natural speed-reader, and never use audio apps/podcasts etc. But this one really amuses me, for some reason. I suppose it's the outline thing.

Curio 10 now available 11/9/2015

Thanks for the update, Hugh et al. Love it! I've just downloaded and installed it, and it's impressive. Mind you, Curiota is a seriously useful app, too, and could be used on its own for creating an...

Awesome Note lives again! 11/4/2015

Ah, usual issues of iCloud synchronisation. Folders don't appear to transfer well between devices. But the Evernote synchronisation is as good as ever, so this would be my preferred option. Speaking ...

Awesome Note lives again! 11/2/2015

Sorry folks, I prodded the slow-responding (on my browser) 'post' button a couple of times, which appears to have created a couple of entries for the same topic. Quite entertaining! Perhaps you could...

Evernote lives again? 11/2/2015

My acquisition of a Windows 10 machine to join my Apple selection has caused me to do something I have managed to avoid up till now: subscribe to Evernote (Plus, not Pro). Actually, it's not bad. Rea...

Awesome Note lives again! 11/2/2015

Rather unexpectedly, a new version (2.0) of Awesome Note has appeared in the Apple Apps Store, and it's rather good. It syncs using Evernote or iCloud, as before, but not Google Drive; that's been dr...

Awesome Note lives again! 11/2/2015

Rather unexpectedly, a new version (2.0) of Awesome Note has appeared in the Apple Apps Store, and it's rather good. It syncs using Evernote or iCloud, as before, but not Google Drive; that's been dr...

Notebooks on IOS gets side-by-side documents 10/29/2015

Okay, biggest difference in Windows tablets/2-in-1s? The battery life. The working battery life is great. The little x2 can last all day on one charge – at least 9 hours. BUT, and it's a big bu...

Notebooks on IOS gets side-by-side documents 10/26/2015

Hubris indeed. Although in this post-Classical world, we'll have to find some other, more Anglo-Saxon noun for it. Well now. Windows 10 is a vast improvement, at least on initial inspection. But iro...

Notebooks on IOS gets side-by-side documents 10/25/2015

Hm. You know what? I'm not so sure. Here I am, typing away on a "real" computer (my new HP Pavilion x2), and I have to say, I think the guys at Microsoft were smoking something seriously hallucinogeni...

Notebooks on IOS gets side-by-side documents 10/24/2015

Owners of less-than-state-of-the-art iPads like moi might be comforted to know that they can emulate the iPad Air 2/iPad Pro's ability to split the screen in good ole' Notebooks. Okay, so you already ...

For those who aren't on Mac yet: think about it... 10/19/2015

Sorry, I thought you were talking about an iPad 2 (big one). My Other iPad is a Mini 2, as it happens, and that runs very well indeed on iOS 9, even though I haven't done a factory reset (yet; I'm thi...

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