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SmartDown for Mac
2/2/2015
The beta version of SmartDown for Mac is now available:
http://www.neomobili.com/products/smartdown/
It's a very nice piece of work already, according to my (brief but intense) testing. Very simple ...
Acta and Opal
1/28/2015
The last time anybody mentioned Opal, the reincarnation of Acta, was back in 2006 (I think).
Is anybody using this rather exotic but thoroughly traditional Mac outliner?
http://a-sharp.com/opal/
askSam, EN, fundamentals
1/26/2015
I'm not a fan of 22111's acerbic/super-critical writing style. But in this case, to be absolutely fair, I do think s/he was trying to make a joke.
It's not a very good one, unfortunately, but I don'...
Evernote again
1/24/2015
It's interesting to read employees' views on Glasshouse, too. Many (most) of them are saying that despite the enjoyable working conditions, nice colleagues etc., leadership is poor and the focus is co...
List of outliners
1/21/2015
I've no idea when this was compiled, but it might interest fellow CRIMPers:
http://www.psychinnovations.com/book/export/html/34
Current Advise on Two-Pane Outliner
1/21/2015
The most powerful option for what you're describing is WebIdeaTree, which was written with precisely this requirement in mind.
The non-profit version is very cheap (USD 25), and there's a trial versi...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/21/2015
Hey, no worries! You're not working with Keep Everything every day, whereas I am!
And I now keep a fairly obsessive eye on my Dropbox folder to make sure the Keep Everything database is as streamlin...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/20/2015
Finally, Paul, you mention that Keep Everything stores its data in binary files. Again, not entirely true. The main library consists of binary files - but if you use Dropbox to sync with your other de...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/18/2015
As for the web archive conversion: in my experience, it's about as fast as converting web pages for DEVONthink Pro or EagleFiler, certainly not much slower. And it takes place in the background, too, ...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/18/2015
Not entirely true, Paul. You can copy the plain-text Markdown code out of each article in 'Edit' mode (granted that's less convenient than a proper export option). And you don't need to copy and paste...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
In retrospect, it's what I should have done. But in the meantime, I take some pleasure in streamlining the way I work as much as possible. And in fact, even a 4GB MBA is not as wimpy as I've heard peo...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Oh, and the final clincher. I've just discovered (doh!) that you can open and edit Keep Everything notes and entries in multiple windows. Perfect for transferring notes and tasks hither and yon.
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Absolutely. And I'd love it if some of these Markdown editors (especially Keep Everything!) included outlining features so you could move items around more conveniently (the only iOS outliner I can th...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Other apps worth mentioning, but which I eventually discarded after due consideration:
OneNote (most platforms)
Outline+ (Mac + iPad)
Circus Notebooks (Mac + iPad)
Notebooks (Mac + iOS)
Notability (M...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Epilogue:
I apologise for this series of lengthy entries, but I thought they might be of interest to fellow CRIMPers, and so I've indulged myself. Hopefully the 'chunking' of the information will make...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Keep Everything has another trick to play here.
Not only can you put all entries into 'Categories' (= folders), you can also 'group' them.
What does this mean? It means you can select a group of ite...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
I had already got into the habit of doing something some people will regard as slightly peculiar.
After saving a web page to Keep Everything, I quickly review the article view of that page and ensure...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
You're right. I tried Workflowy, as well as Omnioutliner (the only rich-text cross-platform outliners around). They're good, but as you remark, not good enough.
If you're going to have a couple of ap...
Fundamental shifts of position
1/16/2015
Sometimes something comes along that causes you to fundamentally rethink the way you do things.
I've had one of those moments.
Just to provide some context: I'm working (almost) exclusively on Mac a...
Hi Steve,
The latest version of Asana (with its new Calendar function) would do the job very nicely.
Having decided to abandon Skype for business communications (following updated T&C), we've just s...
However, there's no obvious way to save the audio file, let alone synchronise it with the text output.
Various apps will keep track of audio alongside e.g. hand-typed/written notes (OneNote, Notebook...
I've just dictated some stuff into Byword on my iPad, and it works fairly well. It needs a good connection to Apple's servers, and has a peculiar way of dropping the connection quite suddenly. But it'...
Shame about Evernote, kind of underlines the rather vacillating roadmap that appears to be undermining what was once a confident, forward-looking team.
And thanks for the iOS commands: I must try the...
There's also a voice recognition function built into iOS 8. There's a nice article on it here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/type-superfast-real-time-voice-dictation-ios-8/
I have a couple of iOS 8 d...
Evernote haters among us will be amused by the fact that, yes, Evernote for Android does indeed convert spoken input to text, and preserves both the audio and text files, using Google's speech recogni...