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Hi Ken,
That's supposed to be the point of the terrifying Podio, isn't it... ;-)
I agree with you. And to be fair, there are a number of apps that are moving in that direction. OmniFocus Pro, for ex...
Hi Dan,
Yes, you're right, in many ways TickTick is pretty basic, and although it has many of the features of more "advanced" task managers, it doesn't have all of them by any means. It doesn't even ...
Evernote reinvents itself again
9/23/2015
I suspect this is a somewhat alarmed (and slightly belated) response to the new Apple Notes in iOS (and shortly in MacOS).
Not as flexible as Evernotes in some respects, but much more convenient.
On Todoist, it's also worth mentioning that comments can be very long and multi-paragraph. That **doesn't** seem to affect response times.
Hi Ken,
- Well, sort of. That is to say, a note in TickTick can be one of two things: a great big note field for anything you care to write, OR a checklist of subtasks
Now, that may sound limited (a...
Oops, no it's not, you can also enter a URL and then put a name after it in brackets, e.g.:
www.google.com (Google)
and all you'll see in the text is the name, not the URL (the name acts as the link...
It's worth mentioning to those who don't know that Todoist does support some fairly rudimentary rich-text formatting, using markup code (not sure where it comes from, but it works okay both in task na...
I'd entirely agree with that. If a bunch of users have highlighted shortcomings, it's clearly in the developer's interests to improve them.
And I have a similarly suspicious view of natural language....
Good things about Todoist: the nested hierarchical view (if you click on a folder, you can see the full hierarchy of child folders and their contents in the view/editor screen).
Bad things: that only...
Have to say, I agree that the new version of Todoist is a huge improvement, above all because it's faster and more consistent across platforms.
It now has proper folding in its Mac and iOS incarnatio...
iPad "Surface" -- er, "Pro"
9/11/2015
And an interesting article on the professional comic artists' take: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/10/technology/apple-pencil-stylus/index.html
iPad "Surface" -- er, "Pro"
9/10/2015
Interesting. And I'd certainly agree that iPads haven't really made it beyond the drafting/conceptualisation stage for the serious artist/draftsperson. Which, while a useful stage in its own right, is...
iPad "Surface" -- er, "Pro"
9/10/2015
Yeah, but that's just it, innit? People **don't** develop apps like that for Windows, just for iOS. And in view of the enormous power of the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro, with their extraordinarily smooth ...
iPad "Surface" -- er, "Pro"
9/10/2015
Sorry, my error: uMake (uMark is a watermarking app!). More details here: https://www.umake.xyz
iPad "Surface" -- er, "Pro"
9/10/2015
I agree with Ken: you can't compare the iPad Pro and the Surface in any really meaningful way, because they do such very different things. There's a big overlap, of course, but having watched young fi...
Beginning to see the light with org-mode
9/10/2015
Well, Ulysses is your app of choice here, with filters that can use multiple keywords (tags), text or dates, either inclusively or exclusively. And can be restricted to various levels of the hierarchy...
liquidtext in beta
9/4/2015
Brilliant! I've been playing with the beta for a while - it's extremely impressive.
And the new iPad Pro should make it a very compelling iOS app!
... which means that for Chrome users, Gingko is now usable offline.
I'm almost regretting getting rid of Chrome. Most Chrome extensions run in Opera, too, but not apps, unfortunately. And there's no...
RightNote Question
9/1/2015
I'm pretty sure it's not possible, either.
What you want is Ulysses on the Mac/iOS... (says he, helpfully!)
Publishing a database as website
8/29/2015
Okay, one more note on RightNote:
it uses iFrames. Bit of a nuisance, especially on mobile devices (due to scrolling issues). Hm. Have to suggest to Rael that he uses a more modern technique, maybe l...
Übersicht
8/29/2015
Good old Macs can do the multiple accented character thing, too: just hold down a key and a little box pops up with various numbered options. It's how I write to all my German clients (rather than swa...
Publishing a database as website
8/29/2015
Okay, this is ridiculous. You can copy web books about using e.g. Dropbox and they'll run quite happily as local microsites on mobile devices. I've just used Readdle Documents (the best of the best fi...
Publishing a database as website
8/29/2015
Hi folks,
Well, as a Mac user, I really didn't want to fall in love with RightNote. But you know what? The Web Book feature is A W E S O M E!
And it has its own built-in search engine. And pretty mob...
I think Workflowy and Gingko both blew it when they failed to produce desktop apps.
There are some things that only work well as web apps. Stuff like Asana and other collaborative tools (and even man...
Handling mail messages as information
8/18/2015
What you really want, Ken, is Planz.
The last version of which can be downloaded from: https://code.google.com/p/xooml/
More info at http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planner_index.htm
I remember ...