Chris Thompson
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Is a Semantic Web in Your Future?
10/9/2008
The major difference between "Web 2.0" and the proposed "Semantic Web" is that you'll not only have to tag items but also have to tag links as well. It's twice as much work for an uncertain payoff. I'...
Chandler 1.0 released
8/9/2008
After seven or so years in development, the first release version of Chandler is finally out:
http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2008/08/08/chandler-10/
Looks reasonable, but it's lost a lot of its orig...
Oops, I had the two Sciral products confused.
-- Chris
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I think you
>may mean Sciral Flying Logic? Sciral Consistency is a task manager for recurring
>tasks without fixed due ...
Just ran across this:
http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/index.htm
It's a concept mapper with a number of additional functions that makes it suitable for argument mapping (like Sciral Consistency)...
Mac Software
4/17/2008
Curio is actually quite good. Curio is probably the closest to OneNote in the sense that it's designed for arbitrary content placement on a page. (In terms of actual use, though, I think Circus Ponies...
Mac Software
4/17/2008
Thanks for that video... very interesting. I should give Tinderbox another look when I have time. I've always found its interface a little archaic, but it is definitely powerful. There's room for an e...
Outliners and Spotlight
4/13/2008
Good post. Just to clear up one misconception, files don't have to be in a non-proprietary format for Spotlight to index them. Applications supply metadata importers to handle their own proprietary fo...
Evernote 3.0 Beta
4/9/2008
In its current state it's a pretty weak offering compared to what else is out there (PC or Mac), but the one strength it does have is the online component, provided you own a smartphone. The idea of ...
BTW, if you're interested in that kind of view, the thumbnail view in Mac Evernote seems inspired by a pair of applications called Yep and Leap. I do find this kind of interface useful for rapid recog...
GrandView and Tame
4/3/2008
You might want to try DOSbox. The mouse works fine for me in Grandview with the default settings of DOSbox. (I was using the Mac version of DOSbox but I doubt it makes any difference, I'm sure it work...
Mac outliners that support columns
4/1/2008
They're not starting working on other platforms until after the next major version with scripting support. I'd guess a Windows version is maybe 3-4 years out if it materializes. It's probably not safe...
Graham, your impressions of the book are similar to mine. I found it quite a slog to get through, meandering and ponderously written, though there are a few useful ideas.
I think it's interesting th...
Mac outliners that support columns
3/31/2008
You want TAO:
http://artec-software.com/products/neo/en_index.html
-- Chris
Mac outliners that support columns
3/31/2008
You want TAO:
http://artec-software.com/products/neo/en_index.html
-- Chris
As far as I can tell, Ecco does all of the things on your list except "definable icons per task"... I suppose even that one could be done with a customized bullet column.
Ecco will probably never be ...
I did it. I bought a Mac
3/29/2008
Have fun exploring. Things and OO are two of my favorite applications.
Regarding the keyboard commands, you might find it useful to swap the command and control keys. This way common shortcuts (Copy,...
short time memory and outliner software
3/26/2008
From the little I've read, Buzan was a believer in the idea that arbitrary connections between items didn't really correspond with how people actually think. His thesis was that people think mostly in...
New look at old, boring controversy
3/24/2008
I use Safari, but it's not because of the speed... my main reason is because it's the only browser (on any platform) at the moment that's color-managed. If your monitor has a calibrated color profile...
Strictly speaking, this feature isn't necessary in a pure single-pane outliner, because the entire document is always visible unless hoisted. But yes, I think this is a great feature for dual-pane an...
single pane outliners for Macs
3/15/2008
Be sure to give the others a whirl as well (especially TAO which is pretty good competition for OmniOutliner). One other program also worth mentioning is Scrivener. It's a dual-pane outliner, but wi...
GrandView (GV) on XP or Vista--how?
3/13/2008
If anyone's interested, I found Grandview 2.0 on one of the abandonware sites:
http://vetusabandonware.com/download/Symantec%20Grandview%202.0/?id=3631
The files inside have to be uncompressed with so...
mac emulators
3/13/2008
I don't think the technique you posted in that link works with an unhacked copy of OS X. They're using "JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel/AMD SSE2 SSE3 PPF1+PPF2", a hacked copy of the 10.4.8 kernel. I was ...
GrandView (GV) on XP or Vista--how?
3/13/2008
Was 2.0 the last version of GrandView?
Ecco on a EEE PC
3/13/2008
That is a GREAT idea. A lot of people have run XP on the EEE PC without issues, and it's certainly powerful enough for Ecco. I don't foresee any issues (apart from the SP2 install issue, but you can ...
mac emulators
3/13/2008
Yup, they were practically siblings. GrandView was generally a bit more powerful. I can't remember if it had clones though. MORE did for sure. It was the golden age of outliners.
-- Chris
Cassius w...