john oconnor
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- October 2007
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- 11/26/2011
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Tinderbox on sale
11/26/2011
Eastgate has a Thanksgiving sale on Tinderbox. Normally $249 on sale for $187.
Voodoopad or ConnectedText.
6/2/2008
Thanks Manfred. Could I then export the document to word. Also in a previous post you said that you had transferred 5000 items from connectedtext to voodoopad. Are you still using Voodoopad and do yo...
Question for the lawyers
6/1/2008
Hello, which outliners do you use to plan your briefs. Also what other software do you find useful in your practice.
Thanks
John O'Connor
'Flying Logic' versus 'Rationale'
6/1/2008
Bump
Voodoopad or ConnectedText.
6/1/2008
Which to use? I have read that " . . .Voodoopad's collection of loosely linked pages cannot be easliy transformed from a nonlinear structure into something more coherent . . .such as a long structured...
I did it. I bought a Mac
3/31/2008
I switched last week. I bought a 24" iMAC. All I can say is wow.
Personal Knowledge Base Article
1/5/2008
Very interesting article: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/docs/CU-CS-997-05.pdf
Corkboard and Index cards
11/17/2007
I would like to know if any posters currently use a corkboard and a set of index cards to either outline or brainstorm. Or, if you did in the past, and then you changed to a high tech approach, why di...
Supermemo
10/23/2007
Has anyone used this program. It sounds very interesting. It includes some great advice on how to formulate knowledge. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm "Effective learning: Twenty rules o...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/20/2007
John O'Connor wrote:
>"There is research evidence that knowledge stored in the brain is
>hierarchical, with propositions as the core building blocks"
On further thought, even if existing knowled...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/20/2007
above should read
"There is research evidence that knowledge stored in the brain is hierarchical, with propositions as the core building blocks"
Mea Culpa
John
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/20/2007
John O'Connor wrote:
>When the brain seeks to solve a problem it does not open up a file and scroll down a list of
>data points arranged in a neat hierarchy.
Perhaps I do not know what I am ta...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
> I'm skeptical of undirected connections as in Wikis, and I don't
>understand how CT can produce an outline (which involves directed connections) from
>the undirected con...
A Taxonomy for Knowledge Management Tools
10/19/2007
From the archives
Outliners.com Message ID: 2267
Posted by srdiamond15
2004-10-16 14:20:49
"I think knowledge management tools are best categorized on a continuum, the salient points on which an...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>The immediate recognition of common key words seems independent of the wicki
>approach of CT. Is that right? In principle, a program like ndxcards could have a
>feature ...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
>Connectedtext is a thinking tool. I cannot say the same about NDXcards
Just to clarify, I think ConnectedText can be used as a tool to learn and understand material as it is being placed into Connec...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
John O'Connor wrote:
>I just had an Eureka moment with ConnectedText. With ConnectedText the cards shuffle
>themselves without the need for human intervention. How very interesting.
Let me explain...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/16/2007
I just had an Eureka moment with ConnectedText. With ConnectedText the cards shuffle themselves without the need for human intervention. How very interesting.
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/16/2007
I really like the idea of using a program like Ndxcards to store knowledge. I like the idea of shuffling these cards and quickly rearranging them to find new relationships. New knowledge structures c...
Knowledge-Discovery Capability
10/16/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>It is more likely, I think, that you will find OneNote's work space a
>complement to ndxcards, as their approaches to a work space are different.
Stephen, did you eve...
Knowledge-Discovery Capability
10/14/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>I see EverNote and OneNote as designed for different stages in research process.
>Evernote builds a personal database; it is a kind of archiving tool. OneNote creates a
...
Knowledge-Discovery Capability
10/12/2007
In the official Evernote forums a poster writes: "At the creativity level, EverNote has the Category Intersection Panel, which allows me to mine my data to discover relationships and associations betw...