Chris Thompson
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Thanks for sharing this! What's particularly intriguing about this app is that it uses Org-Mode syntax. It looks like the developer is aiming to develop something similar to Org-Mode but more accessib...
As satis suggested, DevonThink is good for this, in that you can let it ingest newsletters without having to read them, and when you're writing about a topic or looking at a note you've written, it wi...
TiddlyWiki is no longer limited to a single HTML file, though you can still run it that way. These days it seems to be more common to run it in a configuration where each tiddler is stored as an indiv...
Tinderbox 8.5 with Cross Tab views
3/13/2020
Agreed, the speed at which this cross-pollination happened is really nice to see.
I'm having a lot of stability issues with the new geographic mapping functionality from v8.5 though. For now it seems...
Tinderbox 8.5 with Cross Tab views
2/21/2020
This is a stellar update, especially the geographic adornments feature. I've had problems with Tinderbox in the past with trying to use large city maps as a way to orient notes; the program would slow...
Columns in Ecco Pro
11/12/2019
Pierre explained it pretty well, but just to give a concrete example, one thing you might do in Ecco is create outlines of notes from various meetings, and then add columns "Assigned to Bob", "Assigne...
I'm also none too happy about Fujitsu dropping ScanSnap support for older scanners, but the S1500/S1500M is supported by a lot of good third-party scanning tools like VueScan, so that's an option if y...
Org-mode file format support
10/21/2019
There is an org-mode plugin for the increasingly popular VS Code editor. Last time I checked, it didn't support folding though, which is probably a big deal if you're looking to use it as an outliner,...
"outliner mode" file manager
9/9/2019
There was one research project that worked exactly like what you're describing. It was called Project Planner... scroll down for more info here: https://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/projectdetail.htm#p...
Notion.io is my new favorite
9/4/2019
I thought that part of the review was fair actually. The lack of simple/basic tables in Notion is one of the points that gets brought up again and again on social media. Multi-column layouts with a sm...
Notion.io is my new favorite
9/4/2019
There are definitely some valid criticisms in that review, but many of the points are ridiculous, e.g., the claim that Evernote has more customizable views than Notion.
I think the criticisms of the ...
Notion.io is my new favorite
5/3/2019
The main value in Notion IMHO over a traditional wiki is that it's really built on a database model, rather than a traditional wiki model. There's a whole layer of it that you can treat as a hierarchi...
Mind map, software generated
4/26/2019
Lots of options to choose from. One good starting point is "graphviz", which can take a simple text file and create all kinds of diagrams. Here's one example of a simple script that feeds formatted te...
DEVONthink 3 Public Beta Now Open
4/24/2019
Finally custom metadata! That was always a weak point in an otherwise solid product. Does anyone know how this will affect DevonThink Mobile (the iOS version)... I can't seem to find any information o...
Tinderbox 8 is released
4/15/2019
I agree with NickG's comments. Tinderbox shines for those projects where you have a lot of material and aren't sure how it inter-relates. The guy who prepared an insightful report on the myriad of ins...
Software for web clippings
12/13/2018
I agree with Listerene's comment that DevonThink is particularly good at this. As is Evernote (surprisingly).
Two options that I've also found helpful and are a bit more cross-platform are: (1) web p...
This is great, thanks. Another researcher whose material (posts and videos) of using Tinderbox to make notes about academic texts that some might find interesting is Dominique Renauld: http://www.domi...
This is great, thanks. Another researcher whose material (posts and videos) of using Tinderbox to make notes about academic texts that some might find interesting is Dominique Renauld: http://www.domi...
Quire.io (free until mid-2019)
10/26/2018
Thanks for the heads-up! This is so much like Notion.so in concept and execution that it would be hard to choose between the two products, although this has just a little more focus on task management...
TheBrain vs Evernote vs Personal Wiki
10/2/2018
What is BrainBox? I did a quick web search but couldn't seem to find it.
--Chris
mdlynam wrote:
>+1 for TheBrain. The newly introduced BrainBox has loads of potential
>for queuing up items for TheB...
Processes not tools
9/25/2018
That's pretty fascinating -- you've encouraged me to read Whittaker and Bergman's book. I'm curious if they looked at any spatial alternatives (like hierarchical folders in a mind map configuration), ...
So Numbers is now an outliner
9/18/2018
That's exactly what it is... it's intended to be a more accessible version of pivot tables. This feature was actually in the Mac version of Numbers some time ago, prior to the huge rewrite that tempor...
One option that hasn't been mentioned yet is the TiddlyMap extension for TiddlyWiki. Basically this extends TiddlyWiki to full-fledged concept mapping. (However, if you found the interface of Connecte...
MarginNote 3 on the way
7/25/2018
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll definitely check this out. I've always preferred MarginNote over LiquidText, but the learning curve of the last version was fairly extreme.
What is "ugly" software?
7/13/2018
DevonThink is long due for the version 3 update, which hopefully will improve the visual look. They should probably look for inspiration to Scrivener, which didn't look all that dated in v2, but reall...