Alexander Deliyannis
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> ?At the moment researchers are using a dizzying array of different applications to communicate and collaborate,? said colwiz Chief Scientist Professor David Gavaghan of Oxford University. ?These mig...
historical timeline modelling
3/8/2011
Dr Andus wrote:
>What is interesting with most of the timelining software is that time is
>always conceived of as linear, represented by the horizontal axis. However, for my
>current purposes a vert...
historical timeline modelling
3/8/2011
Jack Crawford wrote:
>There are a lot of mindmappers out there, including heavy hitters like
>MindManager and iMindMap.
>
>Alex, what makes MindView stand out for
>you?
Jack,
True; all mindmappin...
Online notepads
3/7/2011
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I have yet to see anything
>similar to Twine.
I agree; but given the experience of many with Twine, even if the technology is put out there, people might be reluctant to invest...
historical timeline modelling
3/7/2011
I've been using TreeSheets quite a lot recently. I find it incredible that such excellent software is free. Nevertheless, in my view it provides a specific perspective which probably wouldn't fair wel...
Online notepads
3/6/2011
> I am sure there must be some use for these programs,
> but they kind of remind me of solutions in search of problems.
I think there's a lot of experimentation going on with such webware at the mo...
PiggyDB
3/1/2011
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Best of luck with the
>ongoing search for a collaborative solution (I'm assuming you've already looked at
>Plone 4.0? And MindTouch? Have you checked out ocPortal?).
Plone and ...
PiggyDB
3/1/2011
MadaboutDana wrote:
>you can create users very easily, although everybody has the same
>access to every part of the database, which does restrict the functionality
>somewhat.
Many thanks for this ...
PiggyDB
2/27/2011
Spoke too soon; it's a single user application. Ah well, you can't have it all in this mortal coil apparently.
PiggyDB
2/27/2011
It seems brilliant... thanks for the heads up!
Given the flexibility of its structural approach, it is probably more useful to me and my team than Kerio Workspace which we were looking into. I'm a b...
It has been mentioned a few times in the past; it was briefly discussed here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/644
For context, here's another interesting tool providing an environment for writing without distractions; Textroom is free and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
See here http://code.google.com/p/textroo...
MLO
2/9/2011
It's been quite a while since I last used MLO. However, today I received the link to its updated roadmap (I imagine you also got this) at http://bit.ly/eA9S6I
I'm posting it here for reference as I f...
This article may be of interest:
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2011/01/12/boost-your-productivity-in-information-work/
It provides links to the original paper as well as other relevant ar...
Citavi in everyday use
1/25/2011
@ JJSlote
>The Citavi third pane displays not the single item, but stacked up, scrolling
>previews of whichever items you multiselect in the second pane.
This is indeed useful. I've only seen this...
Sightly OT: e-readers
1/25/2011
The following might not help in choosing an ebook, but I found it interesting:
Study: E-books take longer to read than print
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/07/05/kindle.ipad.r...
Citavi in everyday use
1/24/2011
dan7000 wrote:
>To the extent that categories are analogous to tags, Evernote does exactly what
>Citavi does, if I'm understanding it right:
You are perfectly right; my bad. The irony of it is that ...
Citavi in everyday use
1/24/2011
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>As far as I remember, apart for
>Citavi, I have only seen it in Normfall Manager, Sycon IDEA! (both German products
>like Citavi) and Zoot.
Evernote also has a simila...
Citavi in everyday use
1/24/2011
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>In InfoQube, the Properties pane can be used as a third
>pane, making it a 3 pane outliner...
I think it's a different concept. Other outliners, such as UltraRecall can al...
Citavi in everyday use
1/24/2011
JJSlote wrote:
>It uses a three-pane model. The tree is reserved
>for categories; items, as single-line core statements, take a second pane; selected
>previews stack up and scroll in a third.
I wo...
Beyond the PDF
1/24/2011
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I can think of at least
>one historical effort to provide a structured document format, facilitating
>knowledge organisation and retrieval, namely Doug Engelbart's Hyper...
Ipad
1/22/2011
Tom S. wrote:
>It isn't an entertainment device. Its a device primarily
>for consumption of information.
I think that this is the clearest description of the iPad/tablet concept that I have come ...
Pocket Informant (Beta) now on Android
1/21/2011
Ken wrote:
>Does anybody have any more information as to how this
>"sits atop the Google Apps framework"?
Well, for one, if you have a Google Apps account and GQueues is enabled for your domain, all...
Pocket Informant (Beta) now on Android
1/21/2011
GQueues can print task lists with various options, but including completed tasks is not (yet) one of them. Indeed there are still several important features missing.
Among other reasons I chose it: a...
Pocket Informant (Beta) now on Android
1/20/2011
For the record, I seem to have settled on GQueues http://www.gqueues.com/ as my task manager of choice, for the moment at least. It sits atop the Google Apps framework, is well supported and continuou...