Alexander Deliyannis
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WorkFlowy Single Pane Outliner
9/2/2012
Workflowy is nice, but I personally found Checkvist much better both for task management and collaborating. I think Workflowy's prominence has to do with it being heavily marketed to people unused to ...
In Windows there is an excellent utility called Junction http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx which can redirect folders, e.g. I have "My Documents/My Notes" pointing to "C:\l...
Can we talk about Info Select?
8/31/2012
FYI Brainstorm works just fine in Windows 7. There are other issues with the software that reveal its dated roots and lack of recent development. Of these, the main problem for me is the lack of Unico...
Can we talk about Info Select?
8/31/2012
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>Oh. Wot an anti-climax.
Not at all; I don't know what you expected but I personally found the whole story very interesting. It confirms that in this forum (a) we know just abo...
Can we talk about Info Select?
8/30/2012
Wolfgang wrote:
>If I copy from pdf to
>make a text snippit the text can be edited in word (if UR is set up to do it - info in
>discussions on forums) and I use an ms word addin found on
>http://g...
bookmark all tabs to cloud?
8/25/2012
I see a number of options, mostly using Firefox and Chrome extensions. I'm not yet very familiar with the Chrome extensions, so here's my take from the side of Firefox:
- Extension Session Manager ...
CintaNotes seems to be the most consistently developed note taking program I have ever come across...
Jack Crawford wrote:
>CintaNotes has introduced "hierarchical tabs" in the latest version of thei...
Evernote Not Clipping from GMail
8/24/2012
I concur with Vince. I have the Evernote extension installed in IE9, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and each one behaves as if it were another program...
FWIW I just tried clipping something from Gmail ...
jimspoon wrote:
>By "sorting" I meant the way you might
>sort items in a spreadsheet or database table.
Well you can, sort of (pun not intended). In Evernote, tags are in a single column like all ...
jimspoon wrote:
>And it occurred to me that one advantage of
>hierarchical tagging is a navigational thing. Suppose you want to to tag an item - you
>have tagged similar items before, and you want ...
Glad you found a workable solution and most grateful for the link top Text Editor Anywhere. I didn't know such a utility even existed but it is just what I need for my text editing needs. Brilliant!
Submitted for your consideration
8/21/2012
Hugh wrote:
>The x-axis is likely to be complicated by the understandable desire of developers
>to create applications that identify, organise and access information as much as
>possible every-which...
Submitted for your consideration
8/21/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I feel that the proactive vs. passive
>role of the user in organising the information is an important one to make, (a) because
>with Google and desktop search engines ve...
So, just as you don't expect files in a child folder to also show up in the parent folder, you should not expect items with a child tag to also be labeled with the parent tag.
It may be supported by ...
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Yes, in a program like Evernote, you can display
>your tags in a hierarchical list, but how much of an advantage is this?
The advantage is the same as with hierarchical folders...
I've been without my PC for a couple of days (quite exhilarating actually) and though I saw this question in my Android phone, I wanted to be back and test it in practice to ensure my recollection was...
tradercclee wrote:
>Maybe I'll find an outliner that easily
>reads/saves tabbed plain text files, and I'll use this with ResophNotes.
That was the idea of my proposal for EmEditor. You wouldn't even...
Submitted for your consideration
8/18/2012
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Let me clarify my use of the term "create." I don't mean "creative."
>This is really more a question of the source of the actual content.
Understood. I considered also the ter...
Submitted for your consideration
8/18/2012
Steve, great job, and I will disagree with you that there is no benefit from this analysis; I expect that at least people who come here looking for the right tool for a certain job will have a much mo...
tradercclee wrote:
>Are there any tools similar to ResophNotes, but the plain
>text note area is a single pane outliner?
Depends what you mean 'similar to ResophNotes'. If you want the Simplenote s...
Peter wrote:
> For instance, Daniel Wessel on his blog makes an important distinction between “content” and “structure” outlining,
> using the comparison between Circus Ponie...
Peter wrote:
>The key point through all of this for me is that these
>modes/phases tend to overlap. For instance, note-taking/annotation is done during
>data analysis as well as reading, building cr...
Lyx-Outliner: Call for suggestions
8/17/2012
Carrot, I saw your post in Rob Oakes' blog http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/24/lyx-outline02 so I guess you've seen that the latest news on the LyX outliner are from October 2010 http://blog....
Peter wrote:
>this might interest you (cords or no cords):
>http://savageminds.org/2010/07/26/qda-or-not-qda/
Excellent discussion; an anthropological case study in itself :-)
"The problem with E...
I use Dropbox for a very broad range of files and have had no real trouble with it, as long as I don't edit the same file concurrently from several PCs (being a typical male, incapable of multitasking...