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The joys of web archiving
8/14/2014
I'm an obsessive collector of web articles and pages, and am always on the lookout for tools that enable me to collect/extract/analyse/search through/archive/organise web pages of all kinds.
On the P...
Thanks, Alexander – very tempting, as I try to decide which I prefer, Curio or Scrivener, but it's worth mentioning that Literature&Latte have an impressively wide range of videos, support artic...
What a nice little app! I shall certainly be playing with that... Thanks, Paul.
Cheers,
Bill
Yes, I abandoned Circus Ponies Notebooks for precisely that reason, Hugh, but have recently acquired the MacOS version and find, from their blog, that they're abandoning their more florid skeumorphic ...
I have to confess I now avoid Android like the plague, but I realise it's a very practical solution for many people.
As a substitute for SD cards, you could take a look at the SanDisk Connect series ...
Curio 9 Released
8/2/2014
After firmly telling myself I wouldn't, I've quite suddenly lost all my moral fibre and bought Curio. And I'm glad, glad, do you hear me!?!
Actually, I'm really impressed. Curio is just ridiculously ...
Yet another new discovery for Mac
7/29/2014
Okay, I've found a Scapple clone that's even more powerful than Scapple: Junkyard
Like Scapple, it makes it very easy to create rich-text boxes that can be joined by arrows (kind of like a mind mappe...
New discovery for Mac
7/29/2014
It's got some really nice features, including word and character counts (unusual in an outliner), plus a rather elegant little timer that tells you how long you've been working on a document. On the o...
New discovery for Mac
7/29/2014
Actually, it doesn't really do rich text, but it does do notes. And has a very nice web clipping feature. Plus, you can add 'categories' to any item in the outline, which changes their colour. Interes...
New discovery for Mac
7/29/2014
Just discovered a very nice outlining and writing tool, OutlineEdit (again, produced by a German programmer, I believe). Available from the Mac App Store for a fairly modest sum. Has a splendid range ...
Thanks, Franz – after some investigation, I have invested in Pixelmator.
Cheers,
Bill
I've been experimenting with DevonSphere Express (thanks, Hugh), but would strongly recommend opting for the amazing FoxTrot Personal Search instead – it's much more powerful, and the results ar...
Wow, that is pretty impressive. I haven't had a chance to play yet, but I've downloaded it!
I'm enjoying my trial of Curio, too, but have been a bit disappointed by the search function. Excellent in ...
Hm - I'm quite happy with KeePass on the Mac, but then I don't use it to do sophisticated things like paste passwords into web pages (I use Apple's own KeyChain for that). It's excellent for maintaini...
More MacBook experiences
7/3/2014
Ah, that was a brilliant feature – made NoteSuite quite exceptional, in my view. It's a real shame it's gone.
As for stability: NoteSuite is pretty stable, in my experience, and if it does get ...
Curio 9 Released
7/1/2014
That's a good idea - a bit like Ulysses with Daedalus (and eventually, I trust, with an actual Ulysses for iOS).
Curio 9 Released
7/1/2014
Ha! Yes, I've always loved the sheer elegance of ThinkBook. That would be rather wonderful.
Mind you, integration of ThinkBook with Ulysses would be cool, too.
And what about Editorial on iOS? Amazi...
Curio 9 Released
7/1/2014
I'm having a thorough sniff around the skirts of the evaluation version of Curio. Very impressive, if a little umständlich (as the Germans say) in some respects. Fantastic search engine. Extremel...
More MacBook experiences
7/1/2014
Probably the most impressive aspect of NoteSuite is the exceptionally good search function - very quick, and like Acrobat, gives you hits within a document. You have to use it twice (first to isolate ...
More MacBook experiences
7/1/2014
On NoteSuite: I have, I (quite) like. It's easy to put stuff in folders. On the Mac, just hovering over a page in the navigation bar causes a folder icon to appear. If you tap/click it, you're asked w...
More MacBook experiences
6/28/2014
Hey Franz,
Sorry, I meant to comment on the Mavericks issue earlier. My MacBook Air only has 4GB of RAM, but runs lots of applications under Mavericks with minimum effort. Very occasionally, noticeabl...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
... and having just looked at Curio again, I can't help wondering if a mixture of MagicalPad and Growly Notes wouldn't be a rather more flexible, cost-effective alternative?
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
I've looked at Curio and, like any good CRIMPer, twitched avidly, but so far successfully resisted!
It's a lovely program, but quite expensive and, as you rightly remark, isolated. Nowadays, that see...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Two interesting questions:
- with respect to workflow from iPad back to Growly Notes: no, I haven't really found a perfect solution. But I use both iWork apps and other note-taking apps on the iPad, a...
More MacBook experiences
6/18/2014
Well, it's been an interesting learning curve: Macs are nowhere near as like PCs as I thought they were.
There are some great apps out there. DayOne in particular springs to mind. As far as outliners...