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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on July 08, 2020, 03:08 PM »

https://notes.andymatuschak.org

This website design is so incredible.  I want this.  How can I do this?

-superboyac (July 02, 2020, 05:45 PM)

Superboyac,
I stumbled onto some clues that might help your figure this out.  If you take a look at this thread from a little over a month ago on Ycombinator  you will see somone asked the exact same question after someone said the following:

User rhezab said the following :

"I currently use Andy Matuschak's [1] system, using his note-link-janitor script [2] to generate backlinks and Typora to edit. The only thing Obsidian adds is the graph view for me, but it seems that Obsidian generates backlinks using file name, not title. I prefer linking by title. Perhaps this can be an option? The editor also seems to be lacking a little... for instance I can't seem to render math. Hopefully some of my feedback will be useful to you.

Overall really cool idea, but probably not going to use for now. Will keep tabs, and wish you the best of luck!"
[1] https://notes.andyma...rg/About_these_notes [2] https://github.com/a...ak/note-link-janitor"

Someone else mentioned 

TiddlyWiki + Krystal Theme + a few plugins...

which might be another way of doing it.  But the following comment seems more likely

   

  aesadde 40 days ago [–]...I believe you can use this Gatsby theme to get the behavior you're looking for https://github.com/a...la/gatsby-theme-andy "

And if you go take a look it on github, it looks very similar.
Go forth and conquer!

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on July 08, 2020, 02:34 PM »

I just took some time and did some reading on obsidian and I am impressed.  It does also seem to have a huge following that will likely drive it as well. Interest and excitement like RoamResearch.   The thing that really caught my eye was that it has an audio plugin where you can record directly into a note.  Audio recordings and files ( and multimedia in general) are a very important part of my current "knowledge base."

Scripting  in a product like Trilium does not target me either.  However, in theory it means I might be able to use that scripting to automate some of my workflow going forward, and if I am lucky,  incorporating that vast amounts of files I have scattered in different formats.   I would like something that can rather quickly ingest thousands of varying types of files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on July 08, 2020, 10:35 AM »

Semilattice looks pretty nice.  Out of curiosity, did you ever look at Trilium Notes?   Here is the closest thing to a overview I could find. I posted it earlier in the thread.   When searching for more info about semilattice, I stumbled upon Trillium again. This seems to be the way of things.  Not only do you discover new things, but you rediscover things.  I wonder how deeply you looked at it. It looks like there are a number of ways to handle note titles. 

But I think what makes it a really powerful option is the scripting. https://github.com/z...trilium/wiki/Scripts
Advanced demonstrations of what can be done with the scripting gets me thinking about how this could be used. 

It also appears to have some to integrate with mobile. Trilium Sender also you to write/send notes to your day note.  (though I am not sure if this has been updated)

I have had little time to really explore but when I left off, I was seriously considering trying Trilium with the aim of hosting my own. Hosted web version is a full app for both desktop and mobile and also acts as a central sync server for desktop clients.  There also a front end for touch based devices which.

I am not sure if you you explored it or were put off by something.  There has been alot of exploration on this thread (and I have not kept up)  I have not had a chance to look at obsidian, but I think I glean how it works by what people have posted and also doing some playing around with roamresearch.    In the end, what I would like is something that really allows for the same "play" as actual index cards.  Having a system freely showcases the inherent connections between pieces of information is really attractive.  I think Roamresearch and Obsidian are getting closer to that.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by sphere on July 05, 2020, 09:02 PM »

The one thing The Bat! does not have is Lightning. Everything else is there. 

-Tuxman (July 05, 2020, 10:59 AM)

Can it do the scheduling and monitoring I am looking for:

Scheduling emails: Thunderbird has the ability through an addon to send an email at a prescribed time, you can schedule an email to be sent at a certain time or send it to be a reoccurring email.  It is really nice if you are working late at night and do not want to send an email  at 2am.  You can have it go at 8am ( during working hours).  Does the Bat! have that ability?  Any other email clients?

Monitoring replies: Thunderbird used to have a number of other add-ons that were extremely useful that have stopped working due to the changes touched on earlier in this thread due to TB development.  There were a family of add-ons that allowed you to monitor replies.  You could set the add-on to monitor IF an email had been replied to. When sending the email you would basically tell the add-on to notify you if they did not reply by  a date of your choosing.   Sucha  simple thing, but you were able to automate a piece of follow-up.  I traditionally set a monitor reply of a week.  If somethig was more pressing, then I would make it shorter.  Does the bat or any other email client have that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by sphere on July 05, 2020, 10:58 AM »

It is mightier.

-Tuxman (July 05, 2020, 02:00 AM)

Who would not want something mightier!  The question I have is how.  There are surprising little in way of reviews about the Bat.  I looked on youtube.   I will DC forums.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by sphere on July 05, 2020, 10:56 AM »

My small contribution here...

I've used Pegasus (not since about 2000, though) and TheBat! and finally settled on Thunderbird.

I still have a license for TheBat! but I didn't go beyond v7 -- I always loved its configurability and its use of FidoNet-style message quoting but I got badly burnt by a massive failure of the encryption mechanism for the Voyager variant and I decided never to trust it again.

Thunderbird's abandonment of its addons infrastructure is an annoyance -- a couple of addons for message management that I used and relied on have either gone away already or are going away as we speak (Nostalgy and QuickFolders being the most important of them) but the newly discovered ability to create virtual folders via the saved search functionality has just stopped me wondering about possible alternatives, which is why I started reading this thread in the first place!

I have tens of thousands of stored emails in Thunderbird and it copes. This is probably A Good Thing.

-oblivion (July 03, 2020, 11:35 AM)

Consider trying out Interlink Mail & News.

It was developed after Thunderbird announced that it'll follow the webextensions route.

I've been using it for seven months now and it works perfectly. In some regards it's faster than Thunderbird (e.g. yearly view in calendar).

-Attronarch (July 05, 2020, 02:17 AM)

Thanks for sharing this.  It had not occurred to me to check out additional forks. Which is a pretty obvious answer to the issue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by sphere on July 04, 2020, 02:03 PM »

Maxim was not a major developer. AFAIR, he was a mediocre developer - but the CEO.

-Tuxman (July 03, 2020, 02:06 PM)

I see. Well that is an interesting development.  My sense is that The Bat! has been around long enough that it is pretty stable. I am mostly interested in how the functionality compares to thunderbird

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by sphere on July 03, 2020, 02:00 PM »

So I did a quick search looking for the differences between Thunderbird and TheBat! and stumbled upon this forrum.  It looks like a major developer was leaving the BAT!Here is the thread from May.

Reminds me of something I once used TheBat! for... a commitment that was always going to be met in a week but was never actually kept led me to write a polite reminder email that TheBat! sent on my behalf every day at 11am for about 6 months.

FOAAS might have been a useful thing for the recipient. Fortunately, she had no such tool available

-oblivion (July 03, 2020, 12:32 PM)

This got me thinking about that maybe theBat has some of the utility that I have been missing in Thunderbird. 

Scheduling emails: Thunderbird has the ability through an addon to send an email at a prescribed time, you can schedule an email to be sent at a certain time or send it to be a reoccurring email.  It is really nice if you are working late at night and do not want to send an email  at 2am.  You can have it go at 8am ( during working hours).  Does the Bat! have that ability?  Any other email clients?

Monitoring replies: Thunderbird used to have a number of other add-ons that were extremely useful that have stopped working due to the changes touched on earlier in this thread due to TB development.  There were a family of add-ons that allowed you to monitor replies.  You could set the add-on to monitor IF an email had been replied to. When sending the email you would basically tell the add-on to notify you if they did not reply by  a date of your choosing.   Sucha  simple thing, but you were able to automate a piece of follow-up.  I traditionally set a monitor reply of a week.  If somethig was more pressing, then I would make it shorter.  Does the bat or any other email client have that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommended replacement for Push The Friggin Button (PTFB)?

« Last post by sphere on July 02, 2020, 06:23 PM »

Thank you. This is an area that is pretty new to me.  I am not sure where to start comparing the capabilities.  It seems like a big place to look are the triggers.


I found this review/description on a reddit forum: https://www.reddit.c...ws_what_is_the_very/
PTFB Pro: This is one of my favorite apps that I only discovered a month ago. PTFB Pro enables you to press buttons to repetitive dialog boxes. You train it what to look for, then the next time that nagging dialog box appears, PTFB Pro takes care of it for you. PTFB Pro can, like Actual Window Manager, force windows and dialog message boxes to appear in specific places on the screen. It can click on check-boxes for you, record macros for both the mouse and keyboard presses, and more. If you've ever started typing a comment here, on Reddit, then closed that tab without saving the comment, you've seen that "Are you sure you want to leave?" question. PTFB Pro takes care of that too.

    PTFB Pro and Actual Window Manager share some features, but there are some things that the first can do that the other can't, and vice versa. ...
Have you noticed that when you want to view the Properties of a file, the window always appears in some random location on screen? Actual Window Manager and PTFB Pro can both make any window with the word "Properties" in its title bar appear centered on screen. When you press the WINKEY+R to bring up the command dialog, it appears in some stupid place on the screen. Not any more. now it always appears centered on the screen. And so on..."

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on July 02, 2020, 08:57 AM »

The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read:
https://ryanholiday....everything-you-read/

-panzer (July 01, 2020, 03:42 PM)

THIS: In the FAQ section. "Wouldn’t digital be easier? Yes. But I don’t want this to be easy. Writing them down by hand forces me to take my time and to go over everything again (taking notes on a Kindle is too easy and that’s the problem). Also being able to physically arrange stuff is crucial for getting the structure of your book or project right. I can move cards from one category to another. As I shuffle through the cards, I bump into stuff I had forgotten about, etc."

Once again. I am amazed that there is not a way to play with cards like this digitally.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommended replacement for Push The Friggin Button (PTFB)?

« Last post by sphere on July 02, 2020, 08:36 AM »

 So  Bitsdujour has PTFB Pro on sale today. I realize this is an older thread, but I was curious how PTFB compares to other options.
https://www.bitsdujo...utton#comments150812

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Windows 10 Professional for $40 PCWorld??

« Last post by sphere on July 02, 2020, 08:23 AM »

Looks like the links I posted above are not working.  I think it might have to with how I posted them.
https://software.pcw...dows_10_professional
link

[update] Not sure if the links above are any better.  At first I thought it was because the deal expired, but now I am thinking I am doing something wrong when posting them. In anycase, the deal can be found by searching  pcworld software windows 10 pro 39  https://www.google.c...ld+windows+10+pro+39
I know it is possible to get cheaper licenses, but from what I have read, this is a legit retail version.  It is really hard to know if it can be transfered to another system or not as MS licensing is hard to follow.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Windows 10 Professional for $40 PCWorld??

« Last post by sphere on July 01, 2020, 09:44 AM »

So I came across this deal which was suppose to expire yesterday. It is still going... maybe because of time zones or maybe it will be extended.
Here is the initial link I saw.
https://www.computer...etail-right-now.html
It takes you here
https://software.pcworld.com/


I believe PCworld used to be a pretty big magazine if I am not mistaken so I am guessing this is legit. That is what I am going on.
Looking at other deals in the forum there is this post that links to a deal from download crew.  It seems like it is an identical deal and the site looks pretty similar. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: mouse mover jiggler recommendations

« Last post by sphere on June 26, 2020, 03:36 PM »

I actually wanted to give a shout out.  Noise was given birth here by Skrommel.
Done in AHK

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General Software Discussion / Re: mouse mover jiggler recommendations

« Last post by sphere on June 25, 2020, 07:24 PM »

Thank you, I will look at Caffeine! 

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General Software Discussion / mouse mover jiggler recommendations

« Last post by sphere on June 25, 2020, 01:12 PM »

I am in need of a standalone/portable app that I can run on a system that will keep system from going to sleep and applications from timing out.

I am curious if anyone has any experience with an application they would recommend
A list of contenders

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General Software Discussion / Re: Custom Screenshot/OCR software

« Last post by sphere on June 24, 2020, 05:46 PM »

And there is of course Screenshot Captor that allows you to automate the process, but you'll need to add some OCR software (free or paid, it should support command-line conversion, but most do) to your system, and configure it in SC to run after taking a screenshot.

-Ath (June 20, 2020, 08:56 AM)

Did not realize that screenshot captor could do this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on June 03, 2020, 04:46 PM »

It looks like it has cloud syncing... but it also looks like it can be synced manually.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Current programs for notes and writing

« Last post by sphere on June 03, 2020, 03:55 PM »

All OSs
Clipto, Evernote for clipping
Trello; boundary with Obsidian/Roam yet to be established

-Dormouse (June 03, 2020, 10:02 AM)

I had never heard of clipto... it looks like it is a powerful option  that adds some automation to the mix.
Have you been using it for long?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?

« Last post by sphere on June 03, 2020, 03:23 PM »

I am becoming very curious about Archivarius... specifically how it compares to dtsearch and others.

I know some people who swear by recoll.,,

I have thousands of pdfs- some that have comments and sticky notes and I have needed  to find something that has been able to search that layer.  I also have "highlighted" text that I would love to be able to identify.

I have appreciated all of your insight Archivarius these threads have given

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?

« Last post by sphere on June 01, 2020, 04:49 PM »

Does Copernic Desktop Search find sticky note text?

I believe Copernic Desktop Search went to subscription mode. I have considered trying to find an older version for purchase.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on May 25, 2020, 12:45 PM »

Interesting.  I am going to take a look, though at this point it seems like my system is ahving issues loading googleplay apps???
By any chance have you looked at any of the nextcloud sync offerings.  joplin?  Carnet looks like it has alot of promise.  I like that you can record audio notes/memos.   Much of the functionality of google keep is sloted for the future.   And being open source in nature I imagine there is a way to export as text or will be. 

Nextcloud is rather easy to get up an running
App description
App

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on May 17, 2020, 11:02 AM »

Hi Dormouse,

I am the creator of Notezilla. We do have an Android and iPhone version. We just added dark mode to the iPhone version. The Windows version doesn't support dark mode yet. But we are planning to add it in next major version. Let me know if you need any other help.

Regards,
Gautam Jain
https://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla

-conceptworld (May 15, 2020, 03:04 AM)

Gautam Jain,
Is it possible to sync notes between phone and pc without use of notezilla.net?  Can notes be synced when both devices are 1) on the same local network, 2) the devices are connected via usb 3) using one's own private cloud service? 
Thank you 

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on May 14, 2020, 01:34 PM »

But I've no shortage of old routers with USB connections, and the router not having an Internet connection is probably an advantage.

-Dormouse (May 14, 2020, 05:32 AM)

Watch out with that. It is very easy to create a "double NAT" problem in your network when using old(er) routers in your network. While you may not notice connection issues immediately, it won't take take long before you'll encounter vague issues, on which you'll spend hours troubleshooting and not to mention visits to the hairdresser for fixing the hair you pulled out during those troubleshooting sessions.

-Shades (May 14, 2020, 12:08 PM)

I am really curious about how to contend with hard links these systems require.  I have often wondered if there was a way to create a virtual directory of sorts and map it to the directory you need.   I have alot of information on a local network share.  It would be nice to be able to copy a bunch of the files to a portable hard drive and use the virtual folder to "point" to that instead of the network share.  Some time ago,  I tried mapping a network drive to a directory and then calling it (for example) K:  When traveling I then unmounted that network directory and tried swapping in an external hard drive.  I mounted the external hard drive as K: and it worked, UNTILL it didn't

For the most part this does not matter for me.  Just seems like there should be a better way as the locations of files do change.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by sphere on May 11, 2020, 11:07 PM »

Diarium...  how do you find it?  Does it not lock you in?  It looks like it can export to word if you by the pro version.  It also looks like you can record audio notes.
Would be curious about your thoughts on it- what you like and dislike