jimspoon

"hierarchical tags" - what are they, how do they work? 8/21/2012

All of a sudden I realized that i have been implenting a system of hierarchical tags in Ecco and now Infoqube for a long time now - by using the fields (or folders) as hierarchical tags. For example ...

"hierarchical tags" - what are they, how do they work? 8/20/2012

just a quick question - I think Alexander mentioned the use of hierarchical tags in Evernote. I am wondering what they are and how they work. I assume it means that tags are linked to each other in ...

PageArchiver for Chrome - web page saver 8/20/2012

Hi all ... I know there are many different ways of saving web pages for later viewing - here is another one you might want to have a look at. I have long been a fan of the Scrapbook / Scrapbook Plus ...

lifehacker on syncing note takers 8/16/2012

http://lifehacker.com/syncing-note-takers/

What outliners should be able to do (on inherent features and interoparability) 8/12/2012

Regarding Scriptability - A fellow with the handle "Slangmgh" (in China) has written "Ecco Extension" which is sort of a wrapper for the venerable Ecco Pro. It really is remarkable how far it extend...

Taxonomy for outliners... 8/10/2012

Steve, by my own personal definition of "outliner", what is often called a "single-pane outliner" is a true outliner, and the so-called "two-pane outliners" usually aren't outlners at all. But I t...

outliner/pim files and dropbox and similar programs 8/8/2012

I am wondering if any of you are keeping your outliner/pim/notetaker data files in sync across multiple computers/devices using Dropbox or a similar program. If so, how is it working for you? What o...

donationcoder thread about folding text editors 7/19/2012

here is a thread that some here might find interesting: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31650

Exporting information from one PIM into another PIM 7/17/2012

Here is a lengthy explanation from the TreeProjects blog of how drag and drop is implemented in TreeProjects 2.4.2 (current version is now 2.7): http://personaldatabase.org/drop-all-the-things-with-2...

Surfulater sale coming up 6/27/2012

I wish BDJ would get rid of the annoying animation of the "drop" in price ... the BDJ sometimes takes a while to load and I have to wait too long to see what the sale price is!

Using a PIM to catalog files and folders 6/17/2012

Here is another method that others may find useful - it involves two tools - Voidtools Everything and xplorer2. Everything is the fastest file searcher for Windows that I'm aware of. Probably many o...

Clipboard extenders 6/13/2012

Haven't been using one so much lately, but when I do (sound like the Dos Equis guy), I like Ditto (a freebie). Works over a network connection - copy something on one computer and it's automatically ...

New UltraRecall version released 6/9/2012

I wonder why UR won't work with newer versions of Windows. I had to upgrade from UR 3 to UR 4 for this reason. In contrast - my old Ecco Pro, which has been out of development since 1997, has worke...

outliner (iOS) 6/8/2012

http://iphone.appstorm.net/reviews/productivity/outliner-planning-made-easy/

notelynx outliner for android 6/2/2012

Charles, have you tried an app like Link2SD? It might enable you to move the app to SD even though you can't do it from the Android settings. jim

notelynx outliner for android 6/1/2012

"Outliner & Hierarchical Tree Note Editor. An Organizer for all your thoughts, ideas & information using cross reference links to create personal data networks of arbitrary complexity. Multiple parent...

Is Anyone Using Audio Notetaker? 5/3/2012

Thanks Gary ... I'll be interested in hearing your opinions about Audio Notetaker. Like you I rely heavily on my voice recorder and I'm hoping that DNS 11 will do a reasonably good job of transcribin...

Is Anyone Using Audio Notetaker? 5/2/2012

You may already know that you can download a 30-day trial version : http://www.sonocent.com/download/ It looks interesting, but I am really put off by the $150 USD price. It looks like BDJ has offer...

myinfo on sale today 4/23 at bitsdujour 4/23/2012

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/myinfo/ standard edition is $19+, pro edition is $38+.

GrandView - Still at it 4/11/2012

For me Ecco Pro was a complete replacement for Grandview. Official development stopped in 1997, but there is an active community and "Slang" has developed an Ecco Extension which greatly extends the ...

quick question about connectedtext ... 4/11/2012

Thanks Stephen! This aspect of CT is definitely worth looking into further. jim

quick question about connectedtext ... 4/8/2012

I don't suppose CT lends itself to multiple fields per item and displaying them in a sortable table (as in a spreadsheet or database table)? Wouldn't expect that of a Wiki ... screenshots don't seem ...

outliner author wants advice ! 4/7/2012

just stumbled across this ... http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19614/button-layout-in-outliner perhaps somebody here might want to advise (and encourage!) him. too sleepy right now. jim

evernote 3.6 for android gets speech recognition 3/31/2012

Evernote for Android Update: Speech-to-text and Big Widget Enhancements | Evernote Blogcast - http://goo.gl/g5rJ5 It uses Google's speech recognition ... so you have to be online to use it. Android ...

mac/ipad outliner links 3/29/2012

I'm a PC/Windows/Android guy, not an Apple guy, but thought these links might be of interest to some here ... 5 Outliner Apps for Mac Compared | Mac.AppStorm http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/producti...

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