MadaboutDana
Veteran
500 Club
Conversation Starter
Hot Topic
- Member since
- December 2009
- Topics started
- 203
- Total posts
- 2,474
- Last active
- Today
Posts
Hardware CRIMP?
6/2/2011
Currently there's only one solution: re-read stuff, carefully.
Grammar checkers etc. can do quite a good job of alerting you to a potential issue - the Word grammar checker is actually quite good - b...
Hardware CRIMP?
6/1/2011
My apologies for using the phrase "quite cool" twice. Once is barely acceptable - twice is... well, twice is not good.
Nevertheless, using your iPad as a second screen - even though it's a ridiculous...
Hardware CRIMP?
6/1/2011
I'm fortunate enough to have a netbook and an iPad (with BlueTooth keyboard). The latter is by far the most fun, but the former is, in certain respects, more practical. Much depends on what you have t...
Software for Authors
5/19/2011
Looks pretty cool, I must say.
Blimey, I've got a seriously bad case, then... and it's going to get worse. I've been playing with news readers FlipBoard, Zite, Pulse and SkyGrid on the iPad, and now I'm looking for an information m...
I've just discovered Sense as a result of this thread, Dave - aha, looks interesting! Could it represent a first step to a genuinely semantic info manager (i.e. one that doesn't need tags, because it ...
Software for Authors
5/17/2011
As a copywriter (and translator), I'm sympathetic to the KISS argument: you just want to get words down, you don't want to faff about with lots of complex commands, structures etc.
But I do find it's...
Collaborative outlining
5/16/2011
Thanks for the ref, Alexander - looks very interesting and very attractive (not dissimilar to Vialect's Noodle), but manages to infuriate me by failing to mention 'Search' at all. Why is it that peopl...
What about:
Ultimate To-Do List (http://www.todolist.co/), syncs with Toodledo, supports subtasks etc. Works on either smartphone or tablet (with special tablet view).
MLO sounds perfect, too, excep...
Collaborative outlining
5/10/2011
You're quite right, Alexander - and yes, we're running the latest release here, as a matter of fact.
Much slimmed down, still with one significant flaw (which I've made them aware of to the extent t...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
I guess it's all down to horses for courses. I've experimented with dozens of different task/project management apps, and I've found that there's a real trade-off between bells and whistles and total ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Yes, you can, Numbers on the Mac is much more powerful than Numbers on the iPad. The mistake is to think of Numbers as in any way equivalent to Excel - it isn't, it works in a fundamentally different ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Okay, I've done it - I feel a little embarrassed, a little dirty, even a little childish. But yes, I've gone and got an iPad.
And promptly experimented with n billion apps, most of which are nowhere ...
Could I just mention a quite nice hierarchical to-do solution: Task List Guru (free) and its big brother Swift To-Do List (both from www.dextronet.com). Good, sensible design. Only downside: no networ...
Take a closer look at OneNote. Two good articles here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onenotetips/archive/2008/05/29/audio-and-video-recording-in-onenote.aspx
and here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratl...
NoteTab for note-taking
4/17/2011
Hi other Bill! Sounds like you could do worse than KeyNote (the revised NF version). Although it doesn't quite match your minimalism, you can search across notes, in one note (= one outline tree), you...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/13/2011
Well, I've played around with the latest unstable version, 1.3.5, (and unstable versions before that, mainly 1.3.3) and I never had a crash or even a flicker. I notice that certain significant softwar...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/13/2011
You might want to take a look at the rather unusual TreeLine, which allows you to build semi-relational/semi-hierarchical databases in a tree/note combination. There's nothing else quite like it aroun...
new Treesheets version
4/5/2011
... and yes, the marvellous Wouter has finally added folding to TreeSheets, making it into a truly impressive multidimensional information manager; kind of like the thinking man's mindmapper (sorry, t...
Amazing new discovery
4/4/2011
Hi folks, just thought I'd update you all on latest developments on the Smereka front. First, just to say that I've invested in the TreeProjects version, and it's very nice. But I did run into some pr...
MyInfo 6 Just Released
4/1/2011
This does look interesting - I've tried MyInfo before, and not been desperately impressed (didn't work quite as well as it said it did, if you see what I mean). But the new features are tempting. One ...
Bonsai outlines on iPad
4/1/2011
You're right - your previous post encouraged me to go away and look at it, and I immediately bought it for my iPhone! Sad or wot?! It's a nice little app, and probably even better on the iPad (that's ...
Anthemion
3/20/2011
As people may have noticed, quite a lot of work avoidance has been going on this weekend (ahaha!), and I thought I'd catch up with an old favourite of mine, Anthemion (www.anthemion.com). No, not a pr...
Amazing new discovery
3/20/2011
Actually, Graham, there is one other unusual feature in Smereka that I haven't seen in similar info managers (although it's fairly standard in e.g. wikis), and that's the versioning. It's really quite...
Amazing new discovery
3/20/2011
Ah Graham, you did make me laugh! You're quite right, so many promising projects fall by the wayside. But Yaroslav has kindly confirmed that he does have a roadmap (including a collaborative version, ...