Manfred
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Steve wrote: "Making software connections—in my opinion and experience—amplfies memory, not thinking. Is that a distinction worth making? I think obviously so, although exactly what the implications a...
I didn't see Steve's reply; must have been posted as I was writing; I fully agree with him, however.
Manfred
(i) on software-generated "connections" - ALL the connections in my ConnectedText file have been created by me - it's part of thinking about the material - and the first step in organizing the materia...
Simplify, simplify
10/25/2007
I just came across this video, which is uncannily relevant:
http://www.43folders.com/2007/10/22/making-friends-paper
Manfred
Simplify, simplify
10/25/2007
Cassius wrote: "in fact no software is essential for writing good stuff. Shakespeare did it without…"
How true, but ... software (or paper, or a notebook, or whatever) can amplify whatever ability so...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/23/2007
I am sorry to have to post this again, but there are some typos that I just have to correct (never see all of them before posting):
"everything is connected to everything" in a wiki
Well, not necess...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/23/2007
"everything is connected to everything" in a wiki
Well, not necessarily. You can connect everything to everything, but that would make the connections meaningless. It would be the equivalent of havi...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
Categories can be nested in ConnectedText; so Philosophy can have subcategories like Epistemology, Ethics, etc. But it can be as flat or hierarchical as you want it to be. It's easy to make a category...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/19/2007
Daly,
once tastes in note-taking, outlining, and writing are in many ways personal and subjective, so different people like different approaches.
There is a large contingent of Zoot supporters in thi...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/18/2007
"This seems to speak to the database concept of a unique record id, or auto-generated sequence number for each new record, but also seems to speak to a numbering sequence imposed by the user."
Yes, r...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/18/2007
With CT you can search all open databases or topics and link to topics in another project, etc. So, I think it does not really matter. My main projects are called Personal, Notebook, and Writing, with...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/18/2007
I am not sure whether you saw this. Nor am I sure how helpful it will be:
http://www.connectedtext.com/manfred.html
I agree that there is a learning curve, and that the conventions of a wiki take ge...
DevonThink
10/17/2007
Steve,
you are welcome; and thanks for your kind words.
Manfred
DevonThink
10/16/2007
I have looked - really looked hard for a couple of years. But I haven't found any, except Google perhaps ...
On the other hand, I have tried out Devonthink during the last month, and I am somewhat un...
I think export to rtf is planned for the next version, 3.0, that is.
Knowledge-Discovery Capability
10/12/2007
There is an article by Steven Berlin Johnson that describes this phenomenon as encountered in Devonthink:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html
But anytime you collect ...
Knowledge-Discovery Capability
10/12/2007
There is an article by Steven Berlin Johnson that describes this phenomenon as encountered in Devonthink:
ttp://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html
Manfred
But anytime you ...
Cassius,
no, the beta does not allow it, but there is an autohotkey script (by yours truly) posted in the beta forum that allows you to export rtf (including automatic footnotes).
The outliner has be...
Best software for emergent order
10/7/2007
I cannot think of a better application for this kind of emergent order than a hypertext system (with outline functionality superimposed on it).
I am thinking of ConnectedText, of course. It allows y...
Best software for emergent order
10/6/2007
To be sure, Brainstorm is a great program. It also has some similarities with outliners.
But is it an outliner? I don't think so. From their own Website: "Unlike outliners, there is no concept of hea...
Derek,
I actually don't know whether it is possible to have universal links to a single sentence. My topics are all fairly short because I find the "granurality" (if that's a word) of between 500-1000...
Derek,
yes, it does have that feature. I have, in fact, used it to link entries to Whizfolder, where the links look something like this (ct://Aktuell/%28NEHEMAS%202000%29). I used to use Whizfolder a...
I did look at WikidPad some time ago, but found it rather buggy and unreliable. Ultimately, I was afraid to entrust it with my research. ConnectedText, on the other hand, has not crashed once in all t...
Hello Chris,
I am using AppleWorks in Windows (for now). I don't think Pages works Windows. Eventually I will probably use a Word Processor that works on the Mac only, and run Parallels or Fusion to ...
The new Beta of ConnectedText has introduced two new functions:
1. an outliner that is quite capable and can import and export opml files
2. A new footnote function that does automatic footnotes (...