Chris Thompson
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Aperture is slower than Lightroom on the same machine, I definitely agree there. That's one reason I use Lightroom. On the other hand, Aperture is the more versatile of the two.
-- Chris
Ken wrot...
I wouldn't suggest shelling out for a new machine just because you're CRIMPing... there are plenty of good PIMs available for Windows. On the other hand, if you have to buy a new machine to replace a...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/24/2007
Just a couple of followup points to various posters.... I definitely agree with Hugh about the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners. One of those will change the way you work with physical documents, regardless...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/23/2007
While DevonThink will do what you want, there are other options as well. Adobe Acrobat Pro for instance will OCR PDFs that are not searchable. That's the main reason I use it actually. Acrobat Pro'...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/23/2007
Out of respect for Apple's licensing terms, VMWare will not virtualize MacOS on Windows machines. (Leopard Server however can be virtualized since its license allows for virtualization.) Of course, ...
Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac
11/21/2007
Scrivener is a really nice app, there's no denying it. DevonThink on the other hand I think is a little overrated. It needs an update... it is actively developed and one is due down the pipe any tim...
Software for organizing photos
11/12/2007
I strongly recommend taking a look at Adobe Lightroom. It's a little pricey, but if you're trying to manage a big photo library with both tagging and editing, its workflow is fantastic.
Read/Annotate/Bookmark
10/30/2007
I just convert everything to PDF and then annotate using Acrobat Professional's tools. Acrobat offers a slew of various annotation types as well as graphical tags, it understands PDF+text documents (...
I've never had a flash of insight prompted by "connections" made from off-the-shelf software. On the other hand, I've had some good insights from statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms ...
Wiki tool for Windows and Mac?
10/19/2007
Are you looking for a tool that runs on both Windows and Mac, or would a Mac-only tool work for you? If Mac-only is fine, check out VoodooPad. It meets all your requirements (except search in Tiger,...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
This is actually an interesting discussion. That Word barely can sort of handle the task by only loading portions of the document at a time is beside the point, really. The reason you're having vari...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
Wow! I can't imagine writing a 1100 page book in Word. For documents of that length, I'd encourage you to investigate tools specifically designed for that kind of job, such as LaTeX, FrameMaker, Doc...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/16/2007
Graham, you may wish to experiment with more recent versions of OpenOffice. I've actually found OpenOffice to be more compatible with some older Word documents than Office 2007. I don't use either p...
Best software for emergent order
10/6/2007
Brainstorm counts in my mind as an outliner, though it's more of a peephole outliner (or a two pane outliner without the second pane and with heavy use of clones).
Stephen, give Tinderbox on the Mac ...
Best software for emergent order
10/5/2007
In my experience, Ecco is best for that kind of thing, for two reasons.
First, it's a competent single pane outliner, which is often a pretty natural way of rearranging data. Its outliner also suppo...
Looks interesting. Thanks for the heads-up!
Manfred wrote:
> 1. an outliner that
>is quite capable and can import and export opml files
Is the new outliner a single pane outliner or a dual pane ou...
c.r.i.m.p.
9/30/2007
It's too bad that NoteMap is dying, though I can understand why it doesn't sell well... the web page for it is useless, with no obvious way to see screenshots or get a general idea of what the program...
Will, if you have some programming skills, any outliner that supports character styles and some form of flexible export could probably be customized to your needs. I know it's Mac-only, but just as a...
The options for outliners that support footnotes directly are pretty limited, even without the auto-footnoting on paste that you describe (which I suspect you won't find outside of Word).
If you ha...
Word template outliner?
9/11/2007
You could try getting NoteMap to run off a USB drive. Copy the program directory over, then try running it. If it complains about a missing DLL, copy that from the Windows or System/System32 directo...
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
For what it's worth, there is a class of software like mind mappers but which allow arbitrary non-hierarchical diagrams. This category of software is usually called concept mappers rather than mind ma...
I absolutely agree with you Tom. I didn't mean to imply that the Ecco data model was too complex -- in fact, it's the model of something that was carefully thought out for maximum functionality with ...
I really appreciate your work on SQLnotes. You've done a fantastic job already, and I look forward to where it's going.
To answer your question, unfortunately there aren't any good free pure outline...
The only good single pane outliner currently available for Windows is NoteMap, but and development on that seems to be stalled (and it's overpriced IMHO). Still, be sure to check it out if you haven'...
Development of Ecco was halted in 1997 when Microsoft decided to bundle Outlook with Office 97. Netmanage threw in the towel, realizing it was hopeless to compete. I wrote more about the business as...