MadaboutDana
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My son, a budding film director, pretty much lives in EssentialPIM, rather to my amusement. It has its quirks, but it's a very impressive application, especially if you want to store a lot of data. Ha...
Anyone heard of Quirkos?
11/12/2014
A rather interesting qualitative analysis tool that isn't ridiculously priced and claims to be easy to use. Has anybody had a play/does anybody use it regularly?
http://www.quirkos.com
Cheers,
Bill
DeltaWalker
11/11/2014
Since we're all a bunch of sad (sorry, I mean, of course, dynamic, forward-thinking, efficiency-oriented) information junkies in this forum, I thought I'd draw your attention to DeltaWalker 2, a very ...
OutlineEdit 1.2 & Sale
11/11/2014
Nice review, incidentally, Steve!
OutlineEdit 1.2 & Sale
11/11/2014
I agree with Steve that hoisting (which I've mentioned before) and on/off checkboxes would be the two most desirable new features.
Keyboard shortcuts are always useful, too.
But OutlineEdit has alre...
Big improvement in Outline
11/9/2014
The OneNote competitor for Mac, Outline (a.k.a. Outline+ on iPad), has improved significantly in the latest release.
First, it's introduced Dropbox compatibility (just as well, given the vagaries of ...
OutlineEdit 1.2 & Sale
11/8/2014
On a Mac, OutlineEdit is the closest thing you'll get to Workflowy, but actually has some advantages.
The rich-text features are pretty much identical to Workflowy.
The checkbox concept is well exec...
Thanks for the somewhat rambling but interesting summary of concordancing software.
It's also worth bearing in mind that most standard computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools have powerful concorda...
liquidtext in beta
10/29/2014
Wow, thanks for that, James, what an absolutely mesmerising concept! That's got me really excited!
It's high time people working with copious volumes of text found entirely new computer-based ways of...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/23/2014
Thanks for that tip – interesting point. Foolishly, I hadn't realised BitTorrent Sync was so closed. I shall do a little more research (syncthing looks pretty cool but still rather underdevelope...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Sorry, thinking a little sporadically - apologies for multiple entries.
I should mention that I use BT Sync to share data between my various devices (four at the last count); I've watched it progress...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Actually, it's worth reading the latest blog update on BitTorrent Sync - the latest version has added some very powerful features, and is compatible with an increasingly wide range of NAS devices. It'...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/15/2014
Also worth mentioning is the very good and increasingly speedy BitTorrent Sync. This isn't very well known, but effectively gives you your own private Dropbox-like service between multiple machines. I...
Annotations for Mac
9/15/2014
Well, I think it's great. There are loads of PDF annotators around, but very few that allow you to import text, RTF and Word documents and annotate them as if they were PDFs. What a great idea! I've C...
OutlineEdit 1.1 update
9/15/2014
Nice one, Robin - excellent new features!
The ability to filter by 'categories' (= exclusive tags) is especially welcome, but you've also given it a very nice extra twist by making it possible to exp...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
You're right, it is Condoleezzzza.
And yes, Franz, I'm overstating it shamefully, entirely for comedic effect. But the decision of the US courts to insist that Microsoft should hand over data held in...
Silver Note Compared with One Note
9/6/2014
I haven't used it for a while, but did enjoy using it while I was still on Windows. Yes, it's very similar to OneNote, but simpler in some ways. A very elegant piece of design, marred by the fact that...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
On the one hand, impressed by the expansion of Dropbox services.
On the other, would point out that they are still ineluctably US-based.
And they have Hilary Clinton as a director (just saying!).
I...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
For what it's worth, I am currently experimenting with DEVONthink to go, and while it can be very temperamental, when it does work, it works fast and well. I'm in the middle of a large project involvi...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
UK readers interested in DEVONthink will also find some useful resources on Amazon (the Kindle edition of Kissell's book is GBP 7.40).
There's also a nice summary of DEVONthink's top features at Maca...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
Hot dang! I can see there's an awful lot still to explore. Thanks, folks!
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
No, I don't think so - at least, I can't see/find any way of doing that. You'd be looking at tags and labels, in that case, and presumably making use of the (Auto) Classify function as well. I won't p...
OT: Dropbox and Skydrive encryption
9/6/2014
Boxcryptor does look very cool. We've never had any issues with Soonr.com, mind you, which also does 256-bit encryption (of everything), secure file access over web URLs, full-text searches and has cl...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
On the subject of groups vs subfolders. I think the reason DEVONthink refers to folders/subfolders as 'Groups' is because there's a fundamental difference in the way the data is handled. If you group ...
"designing a personal knowledgebase"
9/6/2014
It does, however, perpetuate what appears to be something of a general belief about DEVONthink – that it doesn't do subfolders. Actually, it does. It's not an obvious feature, but it's a conveni...