Chris Thompson
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- June 2006
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- 2/13/2026
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Indigrid
1/16/2018
I finally got around to reading the "Design Philosophy" document. It's interesting how similar the ideas are to the incremental formalization ideas that are behind Tinderbox.
Mark, if you've never re...
Agenda's business model
1/16/2018
It seems like a lot of extra developer work to support this model -- it seems inspired by the Sketch/Tinderbox model (which I don't think anyone has any problem with, unlike the Ulysses model and the ...
Winterfest sale - Panorama X
12/27/2017
George Entenman wrote:
>It should be cross-platform. I'd expect it to run easily on iOS, but
>their interface apparently has to be rewritten
>(http://forum.provue.com/t/panorama-x-work-on-iphone/554/...
Scrivener 3 now has a single pane columnar outlining mode. See page 181, Figure 8.23 of the manual for a screenshot of what it looks like.
There's no "outlines within table cells" mode like you're th...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
12/1/2017
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I wasn't aware of the sub-documents feature of
>Word, but I don't think that works the same way as Writing Outliner. I
>don't want to bring any documents together (in outline vie...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
12/1/2017
If you just want to split up Word documents into chunks that you edit separately, you can do that with no Word plugins using the "subdocuments" feature of Word. It's also integrated with the outlining...
Kudos for the Scrivener 3 manual
12/1/2017
I took the time to download and read through the Scrivener 3 manual yesterday. (Available here: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/user-guides)
This is probably the best software ma...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
11/30/2017
Another thing that impressed me and shows a lot of care for detail/product quality is that Scrivener for iOS actually shipped with support for Scrivener 3 styles, months before the actual Scrivener 3 ...
So, is ConnectedText really dead now?
11/29/2017
That's too bad. On Windows you're best to look at Tiddlywiki 5 or a locally hosted Dokuwiki. You have to install a variety of extensions/plugins on each to get close to ConnectedText's bundle of featu...
is Scapple the best for "thinking on paper"
11/28/2017
The problem with a single large piece of paper is that it pressures you towards some degree of early formalization. If you have a broad outline in mind of the information you're trying to structure, t...
Scrivener 3 is on the way…
11/21/2017
Because they've significantly improved metadata handling and filtering in Scrivener 3, there are definitely certain classes of tasks where Scrivener now overlaps much more closely with Tinderbox than ...
Document Management Software Question
11/8/2011
I have a ScanSnap S1500, the big brother to the S1300. It is, without question, worth spending the money for a dedicated scanner like this if you have any volume of paper to deal with. At a minimum, t...
Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker
10/26/2011
I haven't posted in a while, but I'm also an Org-mode user.
I don't think that Org-mode is any harder to learn than old-style DOS apps like Grandview, particularly if you rely on the menu system rat...
I was thinking about buying a netbook earlier this year just to run org-mode. After shopping around a bit and trying different models, I found that the keyboard quality was really the make-or-break fa...
Provided you don't need calendaring (i.e. task deadlines integrated with a calendar), OneNote might suit your needs fairly well. You use icons/tags to identify action items in diary entries, and file ...
Testing everything in search of the best all-around program choice(s) -- Ultra Recall so far...
9/9/2010
Since you're relatively comfortable with Linux, you should *definitely* check out org-mode:
http://orgmode.org/
It runs within Emacs, so you can use the same program and data files on both your Windo...
I don't really see much in the blog posting. It refers to the 1.0 series of DT, which lacked the orthogonal tagging system of 2.0.
I tend to agree with Steve, that if there was only one program I cou...
Visual representation of data
9/1/2010
I would prefer visual tools that preserve spatial relationships in the plane. I find tools like The Brain hard to extract meaningful information from, because things move around, and the brain's abili...
Large databases in UltraRecall?
8/30/2010
Unfortunately, OneNote doesn't index PDF attachments. If you place a PDF on a page, it *will* index the bitmap page images that it creates, but then there's no way to actually get the original PDF out...
Large databases in UltraRecall?
8/30/2010
Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like it's doable, though perhaps with a very large database file.
To answer Quant's question, I'm doing some consulting for an organization that has a large, baroq...
Large databases in UltraRecall?
8/28/2010
Has anyone had any experience with storing large (10,000+) collections of documents in UR? Most of the documents would be PDF documents. Some of the posts on the UR forum seem to suggest that the data...
yoojj wrote:
>Doesn't Personal Brain have this capability? And also, I believe, Tinderbox does.
It's one of those things you'd think Tinderbox would have, but it doesn't. You're limited to one line...
NEO, the new version of TAO, allows exactly this. Links can be typed, bidirectional, unidirectional, or undirected, and you can assign an arbitrary amount of RTF text to describe each link.
http://d-...
Twig
6/5/2010
It's essentially a much cheaper, single-window version of the Tinderbox engine with a slightly restricted set of views (e.g. no Explorer view). Seems to me to be a really good idea.
-- Chris
Ipad
5/22/2010
I think it's intriguing that OmniOutliner will be released for the iPad any day now.
-- Chris