Chris Thompson
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mac emulators
3/12/2008
It almost doesn't count... that's like emulating Windows 3.1 ;) The only outliner you can run in those emulators is the old, but still feature rich, MORE.
-- Chris
Manfred wrote:
>Actually, there a...
single pane outliners for Macs
3/12/2008
Here's a list of the major single pane outliners for the Mac along with some comments about each one:
OmniOutliner
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/
http://www.omnigroup.com/applic...
mac emulators
3/12/2008
There's no Mac emulator, but if you're willing to hunt around on the seedier side of the internet, through hacks you can install OS X on generic PCs:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/
See also:
http://lif...
Evernote in beta for Mac (and web)
3/8/2008
I don't see a lot of desktop software going cross-platform. Some form of web/phone integration, yes, but beyond that, I doubt it. I can't think of a major app that's gone Mac -> Windows in recent ye...
Evernote in beta for Mac (and web)
3/7/2008
Not sure how I missed this earlier, but it looks like Evernote is coming to the Mac and is already in beta:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2008/02/evernote-web-ve.html
Looks like a solid offe...
OmniFocus
2/27/2008
Good to hear you're having a positive experience. Keep us posted on your thoughts and comparisons.
BTW, the next version of OmniOutliner is slated to bring in many of the features developed for Omni...
A useful property of 2-pane PIMs
2/21/2008
Oops, that's wrong... I forgot you can't turn off context parents in notepad views in Ecco. You can however simulate an index in Ecco using the Phonebook. Not the same thing though.
-- Chris
Chris...
A useful property of 2-pane PIMs
2/21/2008
The main program I had in mind there was OmniOutliner Pro and its "sections" pane. One especially nice feature of its implementation is that you control how deep the list of major headings to display...
I'm sure if they go multi-user, they'll do it right. No reason to suspect that they're any less competent a developer than you are.
BTW, I've noticed that in several of your recent posts you've crit...
A useful property of 2-pane PIMs
2/19/2008
Are you looking to tag individual lines inside documents, or just the documents themselves?
As for graphical previews... I think they're useful for recalling data you've stored previously. As a pers...
A useful property of 2-pane PIMs
2/19/2008
That's just a grab bag of features I've found useful. I can't think of an app that does all of them, though there are several that do at least two.
For a cross-platform example of classifier-based ...
A useful property of 2-pane PIMs
2/19/2008
I'd argue the opposite of the consensus in this thread: two pane outliners tend to conceal information, making it harder to find. Approaches that I think are useful in rediscovering information:
1) a...
TextAloud at Bits du Jour
2/10/2008
Just FYI, for those on Macs, you can select text in any application, then choose App Menu -> Services -> Speech -> Start Speaking Text and it'll speak it for you. The new "Alex" voice they licensed f...
Chandler is dead, RIP another PIM
1/11/2008
Looks like Mitch Kapor has withdrawn funding from the Chandler project, and they've laid off two thirds of their staff:
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/01/rip-mitch-kapors-chandler.html
It's un...
OmniFocus
1/11/2008
What you're describing is actually the original UNIX philosophy... many small programs which interact with your data in various ways using a variety of common facilities provided by the OS. One of th...
I've got to say, I'm a little skeptical of Microsoft conspiracy theories. I don't think they add anything valuable.
Macs stand on their own now, on the comparative merits of the platform, without hav...
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Deprived of sound data and good comparative appraisals, users
>must resort to rules of thumb.
You know, there's one way to get generate solid comparative appraisals for...
Personal Knowledge Base Article
1/6/2008
Very good article, and surprisingly good analysis. I would have preferred a bit more discussion of the interplay between hierarchy and attributes in tools like Ecco, but they got the core ideas down....
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
12/9/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>On the Mac
>OS 9 nothing that was being made for OSX ran on 9.
This is not true. Apple came out with a compatibility toolbox so developers could develop OS X application...
I'm a little skeptical that such an architecture will be added to Windows 7 in 2010, just because Microsoft has too much incentive to defend the Outlook/Exchange part of their business. (I certainly ...
The unified PIM data store is a new Leopard feature, so it's not supported directly yet by all applications, but because OS X has had a unified synchronization architecture for a very long time, any o...
My beef with Outlook is that it forces you to classify data into a set of predefined schema (is it a note? is it a contact? is it an appointment?) and though recent versions make it easier to link dat...
I think your Windows criticisms tend to boil down to not feeling in control. David Dunham already answered your registry question, but in general one of the nice things about the Mac is that it puts ...
Undo in MaxThink - a workaround
12/1/2007
Is there any way to get screenshots of MaxThink? Its website is frustrating.
Moving information
11/27/2007
Printing to PDF tends to be my method of making data app-independent. You'd think XML would be a great interchange format for outliners, but once you start using columns, there are so many difference...