Ted Goranson
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I am a MacUpdate Desktop user Gender: Male
Scientist
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Last Visit: Yesterday
Member Since: 11 Dec 2005
Profile Views: 849
Website
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Fetch
Tedg reviewed on 06 Mar 2012
Yes, I try the others, but it‘s the little things, the polish.
+1
Spell Catcher X
Tedg reviewed on 11 Jun 2011
+6
Mellel
Tedg reviewed on 21 Jan 2011
Some of the UI conventions are unfamiliar, but make good sense.
The feature set is superior to anything else for long structured documents with many numbered variables and typed internal links.
I used to use FrameMaker and miss it. This is the best for my use. The only real limitation (2.7) is no anchored frames. The text engine is superior to Mac's, supports OpenType and custom glyphs properly.
+10
Tinderbox
Tedg reviewed on 10 Sep 2010
- it is an outliner in the ordinary sense with tree structure. It is a particularly rich outliner compared to others, with clones and special tools. Each note is cleverly designed to have an open set of attributes and everything is an attribute: note location in the hierarchy, fonts, colors badges and so on. Most of these are changeable by the user or automated agents. Attributes provide a deep, consistent and easy way to work with outlines.
- it is a typed link hypertext environment. You can make links, usually by simply dragging, among notes and text blocks. These links have a user-definable type system, which is about the closest you can get to a machine-understandable structure that reflects human cognitive constructs. This is a hyper-text or better, “meta-text” system.
- it is a programming environment where the programs understand attributes and links and can act on those, changing some. A built in language, tailored for this is provided, and you can move to shell scripting for a greater capability if you wish. The native file format is XML, and you can manipulate that directly as well. Most attributes associated with notes can be modified. This programming power extends to Tinderbox publishing and export, making it the most powerful XML document producer I know.
- it is a graphical environment for spatially presenting and creating concepts and their relationships. In this sense, it is more Mac-like (in terms of the System 9 Spatial Finder) than the Mac currently is.
If you are limited to thinking about files with static tags, you will find this challenging. If you are looking for something strong in snipping and media management, look elsewhere for a complimentary application (I use EagleFiler). If you are not prepared to think seriously about you work and can improve how you work - and invest in growing as you tailor this tool, you will be better off using something simpler out of the box.
The price is trivial if you use it and it enhances your creativity even a small amount. In my case, I am an order of magnitude beyond that threshold.
+4
Default Folder X
Tedg reviewed on 10 Sep 2010