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Non-Windows Software / Re: Calendula (android) - a dead project that I use daily

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on August 01, 2025, 04:59 PM »

Yeah - essentially everything on the play store is a non-starter because of data 'sharing' and collection. There are a couple that have no collection, but they aren't very good, sadly. I've searched the web for 'foss android medication reminder' and the like, and while there are a few options, none are intuitive or reliable (I'm fine with paid apps, or even say $1/month - I support a few foss devs monthly like this, as well as content creators etc), but yeah 'free' at the cost of my data is absolutely DoA.

Currently I'm using the app Tasks.org for notifications, and sticking with Calendula (notifications disabled) for med tracking. It's alright, I have to check two notifications instead of one for each scheduled med, but I get reliable notifications now. Still worried about the SDK/Android version not supporting older apps though. I think it was last updated during android 10.

I even looked at self-hosted services that use either an app with push notifications, or even just email alerts, but nothing seems to exist. Which is wild to me - in my social circle, if you are into tech, you very likely have regular medications. I guess most geek-types just have better memory and time-management abilities than I do

I just did a quick look again before posting, and https://github.com/Futsch1/medTimer might be what I'm looking for. The screenshots look promising, and I haven't seen it before so maybe...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Calendula (android) - a dead project that I use daily

« Last post by rjbull on August 01, 2025, 04:20 PM »

I've searched for and tried similar apps (just foss, since I don't trust random apps on the play store with my medical info) and they all suck, really.

-wreckedcarzz (June 23, 2025, 09:16 PM)

You don't list which apps you  tried.  I've just seen a heads-up in a UK magazine for MyTherapy Pill Reminder.  Sanity check - I have not tried it - and the Data safety does say

This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and App info and performance

This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Health and fitness and 3 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Maybe that's the price you have to pay for "free" 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine Error Code 11949 and a dozen other errors

« Last post by BuckSkin on August 01, 2025, 11:48 AM »

FINALLY -----

The more I tried to get rid of the corrupted install, the more it kept throwing various errors; so bad that I couldn't use the computer for anything else without the screen getting bombarded with Clipboard Help and Spell Errors.

I finally found a Donation Coder folder in a place I never would have thought to look = My Documents

Thinking there might possibly be a database in there that might just have all my clips still saved in it, I created another temporary folder and copied the contents into that.

Then I deleted everything from that Donation Coder folder save for a single file that had the extension .loc(if my memory serves)

The Clipboard Help & Spell window was up on my screen and any attempt to close it resulted in jillions of erors.

Any attempt o delete that .loc file resulted in same.

I really don't know just what I did; but, I finally managed to get rid of that file and the folder it was in.

This was the last vestige of the faulty installation.

I restarted the machine twice.

Then, I was finally able to install afresh and everything seems to be working as it should.


Now, please tell me there is something in that old renamed Donation Coder folder that I can swap into my new installation and get back all of my clips. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem auto-typing into Notepad??

« Last post by MarySmith on August 01, 2025, 09:51 AM »

Run, notepad.exe
WinWaitActive, ahk_exe notepad.exe
Send, Hello, this is auto-typed text!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine Error Code 11949 and a dozen other errors

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2025, 04:25 AM »

Sounds like something else might have changed, rather than CHS (?)

Have you tried the portable version?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / DBISAM Engine Error Code 11949 and a dozen other errors

« Last post by BuckSkin on July 31, 2025, 02:11 AM »

I have used this program problem free for ages until today.

Now, anything I click throws an error.

I have completely and meticulously uninstalled, restarted, and installed anew numerous times and still am getting nothing but errors.

When I tried to follow the advice to another user, I finally got the main menu window to come up and selected the View tab; however, when I click Options to follow through with the instructions given the other user, I get  = Table Clips: Field 'Index' Not Found

I guess I have also lost all of my saved clips with no way to retrieve them.

Thank you for any help.


UPDATE: I have just now once again meticulously removed every trace of the program from ALL folders and the Registry and restarted the machine twice before installing anew and that did not help at all = still getting errors no matter what I do.

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Find And Run Robot / Open Source?

« Last post by AJolly on July 29, 2025, 10:18 AM »

@Mouser, would you ever consider releasing the source for FARR?  I've been using it for 15 years but am nervous about it's continued existence and bug fixes.  For example, I'd happily patch the changing monitors crashing bug https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=53791.0. 

I'd also like to add an in memory cache plus integrate search everything as the backend for FARR.  I've got that working mostly as a plugin, but I want to combine plugin and history results together. 

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Capture and Read Aloud Un-Copyable Graphic Text From Screen

« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on July 28, 2025, 07:06 PM »

Hello,

I need a utility to read text aloud dynamically presented in the upper-left corner of a train simulator, "RUN8." I have tried to test out some TTS softwares, but none work. I think this is because the onscreen "text" is a graphic (yes, I have tried OCR software too).

Standing by,
Calvin 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Lattics - observations and comments from a user

« Last post by Dormouse on July 24, 2025, 09:29 AM »

It happens every time! Whenever I start a new project, or have to completely rethink a WIP, I become intensely frustrated and irritated with my software. I'm the common factor so the most parsimonious explanation is that I'm the problem - but I can' just swap my brain out, so I have to look elsewhere. And when it comes to it, I'm sure this is a common issue.

I wrote a whole post (https://www.donation....msg455741#msg455741) a few months ago on how Lattics can work for new projects, so why the problem now? All I know for sure is that I don't want to use it. Why? What's going to work better?
Each project is different. The mental states required are different. Writing is ideally a zen-like flow, highly focused. Working through some problems is high focus, but calculating and slightly more open. But for some new projects and rethinks that isn't enough. The mind has to be wide open to all thoughts until the solution coalesces. And becomes highly sensitive to mental boxes that don't fit. Which is where I am. So let me look at some other programs, each of which works sometimes.

Mindomo is a more open and comprehensively featured mindmap than the one in Lattics. Can be used as outliner. But it's still a mindmap - requires that a project can be built out from a core (or multiple interacting cores). My ideas aren't that far developed.

WorkFlowy can be brilliantly efficient and effective for text-based plotting through a MSS. Outlining is fast and easy to see. Switching to kanban view gives a more visual overview and facilitates moving bits around to fit. But really only works when you already have a coherent idea.

Which regretfully brings me to Milanote. Infinite whiteboards really work for me but they all have their weaknesses; Milanote is an organised whiteboard and templates - even has many of its own writing-oriented templates. I have a love begrudging it's okay/hate relationship with Milanote. It only really does one thing. It's expensive (more than five times as expensive as Lattics); it's often slow; it's clunky. It has no internal links, no tagging. It's internet dependent. It's just a moderately glorified pinboard (often likened to pinterest). Compared to Workflowy's kanban, the inefficiency of its columns is distressing. Theoretically you can do many of the same things in OneNote, but it never feels the same.

Milanote is fine to write in, it's flexible, and has decent colours. And a web clipper. Differentiates notes and documents; has comments; and collaboration. If you are exceptionally disciplined and have a very small project (or only use a few elements), you might be able to get away with the free account (and can have multiple projects by having multiple accounts). But that's too restrictive for me. Since it's used in only one phase, it's also possible to reduce price by going monthly and then not renewing; the data already there is preserved and editable; that might work.

Oh well.
Hello again Mila ...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Lattics - observations and comments from a user

« Last post by Dormouse on July 21, 2025, 09:25 AM »

^ I'm unclear in your second paragraph  -- do you mean the "efficient" and busy ones are distracting?

Obsidian doesn't.

-Dormouse (June 24, 2025, 05:25 AM)

Doesn't distract?

-tomos (July 13, 2025, 07:02 AM)

Convoluted language. I meant the ability not to distract.
Obsidian has the ability to focus (ie see only the note content), but includes multiple distractions because of the numerous options and settings. Temptation is always present, even when it's out of sight.

Tangent has fewer options and therefore fewer temptations. It's more prescriptive and may not do what you need, but enables zen-like focus.
My measuring tool is purely my subjective experience, and this 'logical explanation' is purely my best attempt to make sense of that experience.