James Salla
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- Member since
- October 2019
- Topics started
- 6
- Total posts
- 20
- Last active
- 2/3/2026
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keynote-nf
2/3/2026
The commercial software RightNote was, I believe, inspired by Keynote NF. It's a pretty good outliner, with some really useful tagging features.
OmniOutliner does seem to be a perennially popular program. Has the manufacturer ever considered creating a Windows version?
BundleHunt 8/2025
9/2/2025
Are there any discount specials like this for Windows-based software?
'I Deleted My Second Brain'
7/24/2025
My experience has been that these tools and techniques become more valuable as the size of your data collection grows. When you only have a small amount of notes to deal with, almost any system works...
Blackwell Idealist
5/24/2025
Blackwell Idealist seems to still have a heathy fanbase, like Ecco Pro or Lotus Agenda. Has anyone tried to create a piece of software that mimics the features that makes Idealist so well liked?
Using Zoot for email
12/7/2024
Have people had positive experiences using Zoot to handle their email? I have a large backlog in Thunderbird and am thinking of moving it to Zoot to take advantage of the program's tagging and folder...
Cherrytree adds shared nodes
3/24/2024
Cherrytree (https://giuspen.com) has entered the rank of outliners that let you have a child under more than one parent. Its latest version lets you create shared nodes, the same entry in more than o...
Even though it is a very old program, I have a great deal of affection for Brainstorm. As well as its simplicity in creating child nodes that have more than one parent, Brainstorm's bins feature make...
Outlining and cloned entries
2/7/2023
Treeline implements cloning differently from Brainstorm. In Brainstorm a cloned node has a button next to it that looks something like "[]." For these entries, the right and left arrow keys will let...
Outlining and cloned entries
2/6/2023
A program called Brainstorm (https://brainstormsw.com) that's been around for a while has this as its main feature. In addition, the outliner Treeline (http://treeline.bellz.org) recently added the ...
RightNote's problems
11/25/2022
RightNote also has a truly wonderful tagging feature. If you search for a particular tag, it will show you the results but also show you the subsets, the number of documents assigned to the chosen ta...
Wikidpad
3/24/2022
Does anyone know if there is more development planned for Wikidpad? The program's method of displaying the connections between hyperlinked wiki pages seems to be unique and a good, compact way to app...
There are document management systems that will let you upload emails as well as stand-alone files to what is, in effect, a giant database. Some of them might have some kind of tagging system that wo...
Hierarchies or Networks?
7/20/2021
Cloning can be immensely useful. I spend a lot of my working life gathering, organizing, and searching large sets of data, and I've found that creating a set of mutually exclusive topics or categorie...
Web Clipper
6/29/2021
Thanks for these suggestions. I've tried RightNote and Joplin. RightNote is usually pretty good, but it sometimes has trouble with columns and pictures. Joplin's Firefox extension - which it admits...
Web Clipper
6/27/2021
Which outliners or PIM's or personal wiki programs have the best web-clipper features?
The old outliner program Brainstorm has something that sounds very similar to what you want: You can put a "mark" anywhere in a large, complicated outline, and then use a simple key combination to ei...
Folding Text and Xpath
12/10/2019
Does anyone know how Xpath works with Folding Text? The Hog's Bay product is the outliner I've ever heard of that uses Xpath, and I wondered that it was good for.
Columns in Ecco Pro
11/12/2019
The columns were like other nodes in the outline? If you put a check in a column, that item would also appear under that column's node?
Columns in Ecco Pro
10/24/2019
How did columns work in Ecco Pro? That was reportedly the strength of the program - an outliner with columns. There are outliners like Redhaven and Treeline that treat each node as a database record...