jimspoon

rightnote on bits for $29.97, 50% off 3/4/2014

http://www.bitsdujour.com/ this was yesterday's deal, extended another day. I might have to look at it again. Any takers?

globonote 3/2/2014

I'm not a big "sticky note" program guy, but I ran across this review which gave high praise to Globonote: http://www.freewaregenius.com/userposts/globonote-great-desktop-note-taking-application-user...

Can we talk about Info Select? 2/4/2014

I also miss the yahoo groups rss feeds, but at least we can still get the yahoo groups posts via email. One could use something like http://www.mmmmail.com/ to receive the emails as an rss feed. I ...

little red hen needs help 1/31/2014

andyjim, if you tell us what features and functions you want to have in this program, I'm sure some here would point you to existing programs that may have them. very interested to hear what you have...

Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard? 1/31/2014

very interesting, Dr. Andus. from what I can tell the HP Chromebook 14 does not have a touchscreen? Interested in your use of Chrome Remote Desktop. What OS is your home pc running?

WinCatalog 1/27/2014

22111 - are you referring to Alternate Data Streams? It seems they have not been discontinued but are still in wide usage. Please see my "file metadata" thread which I just updated. (don't want to ...

more idle thoughts - about file metadata 1/27/2014

in another thread, the topic of attaching custom fields to files has come up again. http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5280/0/wincatalog It would be very useful to have this capability, pa...

RightNote Pro 1/23/2014

Hmm .. $30 for standard and $60 for pro. I guess these are the prices before the discount. So, with the discount, $15 for standard, $30 for pro (??)

NoteXplorer 1/17/2014

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/09/windows/free-notes-organizer-arrange-notes-tree-structure-notexplorer.html here's one I hadn't seen before, and didn't turn up in a search in the message archives....

Happy New Year fellow CRIMPers! 1/5/2014

Happy New Year! I continue to plug away on my little 11.6" Acer Aspire One AO756 notebook running Windows 8. Ecco Pro is still my program for typing in my stream of notes during the day. I toss it ...

Meta trends - what have we learned? 12/26/2013

good points Alexander. I'd like to formulate some good thoughts about it right now but the brain isn't cooperating. But I will throw in one thing that interest me - look at the prices of mobile apps...

Meta trends - what have we learned? 12/25/2013

sitting here with relatives who are watching "It's a Wonderful Life", which i already saw two days ago! So I am browsing about with my trusty laptop. One thing I've noticed is the proliferation of o...

Best of Both Worlds, Twice - I think this was the missing element to a perfect system: The "one db, one tree" nexus is dead. 12/23/2013

22111, sorry about that! Google Drive doesn't seem to be a good tool for simple file sharing - for one thing it wants to convert files to and from Google file formats. Perhaps Dropbox will work bett...

Best of Both Worlds, Twice - I think this was the missing element to a perfect system: The "one db, one tree" nexus is dead. 12/22/2013

22111, if you'd like to give ecco pro a try, have a look here to see how to have better luck installing it - http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4642 The Ecco Pro extension is now located ...

google sheets update 12/12/2013

just a heads up ... google has done a "ground-up" rebuilding of their spreadsheet webapp. Here's a brief video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AyoRkr4I3U It looks to be a lot more powerful now - w...

Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools 12/8/2013

youtube video looks good .. but I do think it would be really great to allow searching through saved phrases by typing in multiple strings - delimited by a space - which appear anywhere in the phras...

Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools 12/4/2013

Dear PhraseExpress, I used PE for awhile, but have switched over to a simpler solution, using Autohotkey "hotstrings". I have an idea and would like to know what you think about it. I think it wou...

Surfulater PrevGen on bits, again 12/4/2013

@Cassius - those are great quotes about brevity in writing. I was surprised to see that Louise Brooks was one of the persons quoted. She was a beautiful silent film star! I wondered if it was the s...

simplesurface 11/22/2013

ok let's try this again. http://simplesurface.com/

simplesurface 11/22/2013

this might be interesting to some here. http://www.simplesurface.com

Memo Book 5 11/12/2013

ran across this one again without realizing I'd seen it and posted about it before. it's up to version 6.4. The UI looks polished. The export options seem pretty good. It also has an interesting f...

blog with reviews of notes programs (from mk's taking note blog) 11/12/2013

thanks to mk for posting a link to this blog - http://pauljmiller.wordpress.com/ The author has posted reviews of MyBase, OneNote, Keynote, Personal Knowbase, EssentialPIM, maybe others.

quick convert from tab-indented text outline to opml? 11/9/2013

thanks Pierre! have downloaded the latest version. this is a useful feature. jim

Old software I can't do without 11/7/2013

there's always ecco pro! check out these print dialogs to see if they look suitable: http://i.imgur.com/DsbM71m.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FekKKKS.jpg

quick convert from tab-indented text outline to opml? 11/5/2013

Dr Andus wrote: jimspoon wrote: >it would be nice if there were a file conversion tool just to convert a >>plain-text tab-indent outline file to OPML format. no need to do the >>file/open or file/i...

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