Alexander Deliyannis
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MyInfo at 'bitsdujour'
4/20/2012
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>MyInfo is a very solid information manager. It has a clean interface and customizable
>columns for meta data. The tagging scheme is nice, with a handy tag filter. It has a
>tab...
ResophNotes and Simplenote
4/20/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>Unfortunately RN+Simplenote turned out to be a huge disappointment. Within
>the first 10 minutes about 20 of my notes I had just entered into RN disappeared,
>leaving me with 6 note...
Liquid Story Binder
4/18/2012
A search for "Liquid Story Binder" shows that it's been mentioned several times here in the past, albeit rather briefly. The occasions have usually been promotions in Bits du Jour and other websites. ...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/18/2012
No problem, I should have guessed it based on your non-abbreviated references in the same phrase. I was just confused by your reference to wikis and the parentheses; I wondered whether the abbreviatio...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/18/2012
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>I am still using IS8 and CHS
I assume IS8 = Info Select
CHS = ?
Docear - The Academic Literature Suite
4/17/2012
Docear http://www.docear.org/ is a new tool for organising academic literature and writing, a successor to the Sciplore project http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/
I do not do any ...
This continues from another thread http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3932/5 where I posted the comment below.
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Most importantly though, I do not believe that th...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/16/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>You don't just need wall space. You need a big office for the desks,
>space for filing cabinets etc. These are expensive resources. This is where
>computers introduce some social ju...
most facile outliner
4/16/2012
An interesting post in Manfred Kuhn's blog, about how he uses Brainstorm with ConnectedText
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/connectedtext-and-brainstorm.html
Retrospective outlining
4/16/2012
This entry on reverse outlining is useful for reference; I found it via Manfred Kuhn's blog:
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/page.jsp?id=51&c_type=category&c_id=32
most facile outliner
4/15/2012
Gary Carson wrote:
>If I remember correctly, Brainstorm's aerial view lets you see everything,
>but it's not editable.
You remember perfectly!
Robert Caro's outliner
4/15/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>Basically instead of physically moving
>your body in front of your cork board, you are moving the cork board horizontally and
>vertically across your screen, using a mouse.
>I don'...
most facile outliner
4/15/2012
(Interesting: the fields were considered markup by our forum software and were removed from view. Here is my post again.)
Same here for the use of namesakes. In my MBA class notes I had ?fields? like...
most facile outliner
4/15/2012
Same here for the use of namesakes. In my MBA class notes I had 'fields' like etc. and I could very quickly scan back and forth the various material in sequence. I even put all such 'fields' under ...
most facile outliner
4/15/2012
I concur that it's actually a good time for Windows software. I believe that many people (myself among them) were turned off by the uselessness of Vista, and began exploring other platforms --most tur...
most facile outliner
4/15/2012
Actually, I believe that Brainstorm is still mentioned in this forum fairly regularly, considering that its development has been frozen in time (by the way, it changed ownership some years ago, which ...
Markdown everywhere
4/14/2012
I'm moving towards a more compact setup of software for my writing, borrowing several concepts and tips from people in this forum, as well as the Cyborganize process. My main goal is to maintain distu...
GrandView - Still at it
4/14/2012
Gary Carson wrote:
>Just out of
>curiosity, what can Grandview do that other outliners can't do? I'm just asking
>because I've never used Grandview before.
I think that this post by Steve Z. http...
XLNotes EXCEL Add-in
4/14/2012
XLnotes, I for one appreciate your reaching out to the forum with more info. The product has been briefly mentioned here in the past, and I remember that I had once tried to trial it and it was not av...
XLNotes EXCEL Add-in
4/14/2012
Here's a simple example in Excel 2007/10:
- Select rows 2 to 4
- On the ribbon, click Data / Group / Group: this should create a first collapsible level
- Select rows 1 to 5
- Again, click Data / Gro...
TheBrain 7 Beta
4/14/2012
Steve, thanks; I'll try it out and post my impressions back here.
Scrivener for Windows stability
4/14/2012
My use of Scrivener is intermittent, so I can't provide any testimonial of reliability, but so far I have had no issues. Moreover, Scrivener saves its files individually under a project folder which I...
XLNotes EXCEL Add-in
4/13/2012
Jack Crawford wrote:
>For apps like this to be useful they must be 100%
>reliable.
Couldn't agree more.
TheBrain 7 Beta
4/13/2012
Has anyone used extensively TheBrain 7's web exporting function (which creates a navigateable dynamic HTML/JAVA copy of the database)?
I find that this functionality can be very useful for sharing in...
CRIMPing makes it big time
4/12/2012
Bravo Steve; recognition well deserved!