MadaboutDana
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how best to save web pages
6/3/2014
I generally copy the bit of web page I want to save and then paste it into (a) OneNote (which means it automatically also pastes the URL), or (b) Notebooks (which preserves the web page layout much be...
Springpad replacement?
5/29/2014
... although Quip 2.0 still has one seriously irritating feature: although it produces proper, curly, writer's quotation marks, it doesn't do the same for apostrophes/inverted commas, which remain res...
Springpad replacement?
5/29/2014
Here's another one for you, in fact: Quip 2.0. In terms of look and feel, I rate Quip very highly, but it's always been a bit short of features I regard as essential, notably full-text search. Well, t...
Workflowy on Mac...
5/29/2014
Just been playing with exporting OPML from Workflowy into Outlinely on the Mac (yes, I know, don't I have anything better to do?!), and it works quite nicely, although HTML codes embedded in the notes...
Springpad replacement?
5/27/2014
Hacknote - duh! Sorry, I meant to write Hackpad.
Springpad replacement?
5/27/2014
I'm experimenting with Hacknote, which is remarkably powerful, but a tiny bit slow. But it's been taken over by Dropbox, so should be a keeper - certainly worth keeping an eye on.
I believe that was ...
I suppose that's what I like about DayMap - it could be used as a GTD app (you could name your 'projects' according to the usual GTD labels, and it already has an Inbox), or you can use it to run mult...
Outlinely (for Mac)
5/25/2014
Sorry, everybody, here's the right place to comment on Outlinely. Yes, I agree it's a very pleasant, ultra-simple alternative to huge apps like OmniOutliner. In fact, despite my enthusiasm for Tree, I...
Workflowy on Mac...
5/24/2014
... now exists in the form of Outlinely. I'm sure somebody's already mentioned it, but it is, in fact, a perfect duplicate of Workflowy - as a desktop app.
Any Mac users interested in saving out Work...
Hm. Following our interesting conversations about outliners vs. task managers vs. calendars vs. project managers, I've stumbled across a rather nice little Mac app called DayMap which combines, yes, a...
Growly Notes 2 - now on Mac App Store
5/24/2014
Well, now my lovely MacBook Air has arrived , I've been trying out all kinds of interesting note managers. Some of them will have to wait, because they're rather expensive (I'm looking at you, OmniOut...
Sorry, Ken, my fault entirely. The precise name of the app is "To-do Lists", and it is rather good. No sub-tasks, however (but when running multiple lists, I find they're less important, somehow). I'm...
Ha! How amusing, your development largely parallels mine. I still use Trello as my main organisational app, but for reminders and multi-day events, you do need something more immediate. I was using a ...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/18/2014
Switching to Macs... well, I've got a few reasons:
a) Macs run Windows really well (even Windows 8, although MacBook users would be well-advised to invest in PowerPlan and Trackpad++). My son's iMac ...
I entirely agree with Paul and Franz - the more I've played with planning/project management software, the more irritating I've found it for managing all the things that do, indeed, "slip through the ...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/17/2014
I must say, I'm increasingly attracted to Ulysses, especially after what you've both said. It's the combination of simplicity and underlying power that attracts - a kind of mix of Scrivener and Connec...
An in-depth RightNote app-praisal
5/16/2014
Excellent review - much fairer to RightNote than previous dismissals, I think. Thanks!
iBooks Author
5/16/2014
Now I know this isn't, strictly speaking, an outliner application, but it allows you to build information management applications ("books") in a really rather attractive (because it's free and looks c...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/16/2014
Thanks for posting those two reviews, too - very interesting indeed.
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/16/2014
Interesting, Hugh. I have Daedalus, but hadn't realised it syncs with Ulysses. Hm. Tempting...
Mind you, the iOS version of Scrivener will be seriously tempting, once that appears. My only beef with ...
Taking another look at Ulysses
5/16/2014
Now that I'm about to become the proud owner of a spanking new MacBook Air, I've been taking a long, thoughtful look at the applications I really need, as opposed to the ones which, as an inveterate C...
Funnily enough, I have experimented with CMSes as outliners over a number of years. Each time, I've eventually come away feeling slightly frustrated, but each time, the concept has seemed more feasibl...
Framework's one - fairly significant - limitation being that it ran entirely in RAM. Which made it very fast, but very inflexible, and unable to deal with large data sets (especially in view of the ma...
Yozo Office reminds me of good ole' StarOffice 5, which had a similar totally integrated interface. Alas, it died (or rather, was transformed into OpenOffice). I've also thought it was a shame nobody ...
I have a high regard for Plone, but agree that some development work would be necessary. Albeit probably fairly minor, or not much more than what you'd have to do to standardise your system - given th...