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Oops. The previous was meant to be a reply to the reply to the long review before it... meh. Whatever. |
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What a helpful comment. |
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Now that Nisus does comments -- which make the round trip to Word seamlessly -- there's even less need to have the Beast of Redmond on your machine. Some may need revision tracking (which Pages does quite well) but for the rest of us who work with editors who comment our mss., Nisus has pretty well everything we need. For writers who use Scrivener for the actual process of composition, Nisus seems the perfect partner. For pure academic writing with multiple footnotes etc., Mellel perhaps still has the edge, particularly with the stunning implementation of cross-references in the latest 2.5 beta and its perfect integration with Bookends (and, I believe, Sente). This is a fine time to be a writer -- of whatever kind -- using a Mac. There are solutions for everything, and none of them involve The Beast. Nisus, Scrivener, Tinderbox, Schreiben, Bean, Mellel, Screenwriter 6, Montage, Ulysses... the list is endless and we're spoiled for choice. Hooray. |
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Those are pretty serious accusations. Care to back them up with any evidence? Oh - and "myopic" refers to sight, not hearing. So myopic listeners would be at no disadvantage at all. FWIW, I like OmniWeb, have never had problems with it, and if I hit a non-compliant (a.k.a. "heavily windozed") site, which happens very, very rarely, I just move on. |
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I know this can't be true... I mean, it really can't, can it?... but it looks as if data in Bento isn't visible to Spotlight. Obviously I'm missing something because for Bento to be non-Spotlight-friendly would be beyond crass. Beyond stupid. Beyond anything we'd expect from Filemaker-- Oops. Hang on. Did I just say "Filemaker"? Hmm. |
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Open Terminal and type in /usr/bin/mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/Mellel.mdimporter followed by return. That did the trick |
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Update: Mellel seems to play nicely with Spotlight in 10.5.2. Phew. |
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Better now, dear? |
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TexLogic - I originally took issue with Mendota (see my post above) but once he explained his thinking about caches and the naive user, I realise he has a very good point. Your comment about it being the user's responsibility is fine but it assumes an ideal world. In the real world, there are lots of users who are barely potty-trained enough to get by, and apps that can help them will do better (and are more responsible IT citizens) than libertarian apps which just say "Don't whine if you get hosed". You might argue that Spotlight is redundant because it's the user's job to make sure that his/her files are consistently named and stored in a logical directory structure. Now tell Grandma when she can't find the first draft of her part-time PhD thesis... |
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Interesting point & I hadn't thought of that particular scenario. This would be something to take up with the developers, I guess. Of course there are caches of all kinds of stuff all over the machine... a big weakness & invisible (and unknown) to most 'ordinary' users who, I suspect, think the original file is all there is. A global solution like File Vault is probably the safest, at a guess. That's what I use, though there is an overhead. If people are going to start ScanSnapping their way to the paperless filing cabinet, then we have to think more carefully about security. You've given me an idea for an article. Thanks! |
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Oops. Forgot to rate it... four stars for features because... because... damn. There *was* something but I forgot. Still, there's always room for more features, right? |
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Even without the new Leopard compatibility, this is a good upgrade with a number of well-implemented and useful improvements. Leopard compatibility has indeed taken a while, but that's not least because of the meticulous high standards of the developer, Mr Nanian, who has been frank and open about the problems on his blog. His attitude (very different to the more "corporate" developers, who basically keep users in the dark) makes it much easier to have confidence in his product. SuperDuper has never let me down and has saved my bacon on a few occasions. SD and Time Machine make a powerful and easy backup strategy; it's as simple to do it as not to do it, which, for an admin schlub like me, is crucial. As to the previous poster: saying "it doesn't work" is a bit sweeping. "It doesn't work for me" would be more to the point. The number of satisfied users would suggest, perhaps, that the problem may be in his system or his setup. An email to Mr Nanian might be more productive than denouncing his software here. |
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Partition. The. Drive :-) |
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Agreed with the previous comment -- no, Yep won't make your personal PDF files any MORE private than they already are. I don't think it's offered as a security solution. If Yep can see your PDFs, then, true, anyone can see them. And the originals will still be readable. It's more like a Finder for PDFs, and a brilliantly usable and slick one at that. You could perhaps imitate some of its features by using Spotlight and QuickLook in Leopard, but the tagging, sorting and finding functions in Yep are much more fluently thought-out. I find the application invaluable; and I have a feeling that no viewer/finder can apply a security Band-Aid to an insecure system. Security perhaps needs to happen at a deeper level and is in the hands of the user. But YMMV. As to developer responsiveness: I only had cause to email them once, and got an immediate, and thorough, response. |
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You don't like it, don't buy it. But I don't see that the issue calls for moralizing. Baseline may be a version of whatever-you-said-it-was, but some of us aren't command line magi nor do we have any interest in becoming one. The argument is false. I pay someone to clean my house. She does nothing I couldn't do myself. But I'd rather pay her to do it. She gets paid, I get relieved of a task I don't like. This is the same sort of of deal. It's not about ethics. It's about convenience and the free market, unless I'm missing something crucial here. Which is, of course, possible... |
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There are plenty of snippet-keepers and junk drawers already... BUT ShoveBox has something special, at least for the way I use things: a hotkey which brings up a notepad. Often when working on something I have a quick idea for something else. Open a new document, type, save, try to remember where/when to open it again? Nah. Open a new APP, ditto? Nah, x2. Hit a key combo, make note, hit enter? YES. And the notes are all there -- along with anything dragged onto the ShoveBox icon -- at the end of the day when I clean up my desk. (Or ::should:: clean up my desk.) It's a great little feature of real workflow benefit. As for the bigger-scale features -- I agree that a preview pane is really important for the future of this app. But the other stuff... well, I'd say that ShoveBox is really a temporary sort of InBox; a dumping ground or halfway-house for stuff en route to a more permanent home or to the trash ("Why on earth did I think ::that:: was worth clipping this morning...?) so permanent-storage features aren't that vital IMO. It's the QuickJot that does it for me. Well worth the $ for that alone. |
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Rather. Good. Upgrade. For me, anyway, though it's dangerous to argue from a sample of one. But... unlike the previous reviewer, scrollwheel (and two-finger trackpad scrolling) works just fine for me, and MacJournal posted without problem to my Typepad blog. I've no axe to grind here. I've tried MacJournal a few times and on each occasion decided it wasn't for me. I use Journler for journalling and information hoarding, and Ecto for blogging. But this version seems much nicer. I'm tempted to give it a try. But fifteen days isn't enough to evaluate it; not if you have work to do at the same time. It's caught my interest. If I fire it up again in a few days when I have a break in work, and it says "This demo has expired," so will my interest. Thirty days is the standard in the industry for a good reason: it's about long enough. |
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Good point. But you still actually SEE everything; sometimes I want to say "Just show me the stuff that's really high priority". Otherwise the list can get visually overwhelming. Perhaps the truth is GTD doesn't work for me. As a writer, working from home, I don't have contexts really. I don't have meetings, I don't commute, differentiating @work from @home is kind of meaningless, and if I'm here, the Mac is here and so is the internet... perhaps something simpler (TaskPaper?) would be better for my needs. |
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"YMMV" stands for "Your Mileage May Vary". To put it more simply, we are both using the same system version; it works on my machine but not on yours; therefore the problem is probably something to do with your machine configuration rather than being inherent in Pads X (in which case it wouldn't work on my machine either). I hope that clarifies it. |
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I've been using OF since early alpha releases, and contrary to Granola's experience, it's never lost a single piece of data, even with daily, often multiple, updates operating on the same data file -- fine coding by the Omni team. (Once I thought it had eaten my data, but it turned out that I had a filter still set that I hadn't noticed.) It's a cool app, though more GTD-centric than they might suggest. No support for priorities, for example, and heavy reliance on the Projects & Contexts concept. But if GTD works for you, then, I'd guess, so will OF. There's a learning curve, largely because the thing is very flexible in the way you can view your Stuff; but in the end it does the job elegantly, reliably and stably. |
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PS to my previous post -- in response to the earlier reviewer, I haven't had any Safari/web problems with this release. |
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The main drawback of DevonThink for me (I've used it since it first appeared) has been its refusal to play with Spotlight. This -- because I'm a data slut, never quite sure where anything is -- has meant ≥2 searches for whatever-it-is: one in Spotlight, then one for each DevonThink database whatever-it-is might be in. This was on the point of driving me away from DevonThink... particularly with Leopard's much-improved Spotlight implementation. Fortunately, with v1.5, it now plays very nicely with Spotlight. Still no QuickLook, but at least it means that just one Spotlight search can pull up everything. So once again DevonThink is at the head of the pack. Thank you, Devon Technologies. I'd give it 5 'features' stars now, if only it offered (a) multiple databases open simultaneously, and (b) tagging, instead of enforcing a folder hierarchy and "replicants". Oh, and Boolean searching -- though the AI "see also" function is magnificent. Interface looks a bit outdated now, but works. It's much snappier than before. And the learning curve is steep. (Actually, I think I mean "shallow" -- you spend a lot of time getting up to speed. A "steep" learning curve would be e.g. Yojimbo, where you go from Novice to Expert user almost instantly.) Nor can it import files from some of my most-used applications. Tinderbox and Scrivener I can understand; they are both complex organizational systems -- one XML, the other a package of indexed RTF/D files -- and it would be hard to see how the hell DevonThink would handle their data. But DT's inability to read Mellel or Pages 3 files is a big shame. Not DevonTech's fault, I believe, but outside developers not providing plug-ins. But all in all, with this update DevonThink is IMO still the leader for heavy-lifting of text-based data. |
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A heads-up. I've been an enthusiastic -- and satisfied! -- user of this excellent app since v1. But a caveat for anyone thinking of using it with Leopard. So far, Mellel files are not being read by Spotlight, and don't play with QuickLook or CoverFlow. No word (surprisingly) from the developers on when we can expect this. QuickLook & CoverFlow is manageable, but Spotlight invisibility is a real problem. So I suggest if you're thinking of getting Mellel -- and it is, as I have said before, a very fine WP indeed -- either stick with Tiger or wait until the developers come out with the requisite plug-in. |
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Er... no; I think he's comparing things albeit in a fairly superficial way. You know, Preview, PDFPen, Adobe Reader, Skim... at least it's on topic & polite. There's no need to be so minatory and snide. |
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My earlier comment about footnotes is out of date and should be dismissed. Sente now does them, and seems to do them fine, although I've only just had a quick look at it. |
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"I'm just making conversation" Fair enough... And I was just making satire, which is supposed to defuse stuff by going WAY over the top. That's why I stay out of forums too. (Cue Latinist to tell me it should be "fora". Bah.) |
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I agree with the developer. This "thread" is irrelevant and infantile. MeinKOPP is a clean, fast, elegant application for taking categorised notes and lends itself to a simple implementation of GTD, unless you are a GTD shaman, in which case you might want something like iGTD or the forthcoming OmniFocus -- the dangers of which are that you can spend so much time tinkering with your GTD app that you never actually G anything D. MeinKOPP sits somewhere between Jesse Grosjean's stripped-down TaskPaper and the high-end apps mentioned above. It's also remarkably cheap with one of the simplest licensing schemes around: you buy it, it's yours. I'd also recommend the developer's other apps -- most of all, Schreiben, a little masterpiece of light, straightforward WP. |
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Oh for heaven's sake DO stop including everyone in your ludicrously oversensitive Weltanschauung (German for "worldview"). It's simply absurd to think that words have some sort of evil power because they sound vaguely like othe words. By that token we should get all uppity about words like "few", "jigger", "maggot", "stunt", "trick", "parky", "dongle", "wonky", "rich", "grape", "hypocaust", "bike", "suit", "plastic", "sago", "dog" ... well, perhaps you get the point. All of them vaguely rhyme with words which might be "offensive" to those whose idea of highly-refined moral sensibility is confined to experiencing a self-righteous affrontedness at every possible moment. The "English-speaking" world also happens to speak an awful lot of other languages unless it's sunk in infantile neocolonialist isolationism. The fact that Adolf Hitler wrote a book called "My Struggle" ("Mein Kampf" in German) is nothing to do with the fact that this developer has written an EXCELLENT, fast, clean, small-footprint app called "MyHead" ("MeinKopp" in German). Or would you rather stop anyone from speaking, writing or thinking in German because some German people did something genuinely horrible sixty years ago? In which case it's goodbye English (masses of stuff) Spanish (inquisition), Portuguese ("discovering" America), Arabic (I'm going to stop giving examples now; you can think up your own), Yoruba, Latin, Greek, Turkish, French, Italian, Russian, Ruwenzoruru, Tagalog, Farsi and, quite probably, Linear B into the bargain. Let's all like instead you know like be like "Whatever" in case we, you know, like, you know?, right? (But not, of course, in English.) |
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Perhaps more accurate to say not "all English-speaking people" but "people who can *only* speak English & have no clue about or interest in any other languages". Maybe there should be a version for them, called DummKopf... oh, no, of course; they wouldn't have a clue what it meant, & wouldn't have anything to put in it if they got it. Heigh-ho for the New Imperialism. |
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Does what it says on the can. Stable, clean and useful -- particularly the ability to attach notes to a particular app. "Magnetic" docking of stickies keeps things neat. All the benefit of Apple stickies, without the clutter. I just wish there was a centralised window to browse ALL notes, as in Edgies. Otherwise, good value and a reasonable price. |
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Can't see a great deal of change from the last version - certainly it doesn't feel like an integer upgrade. The main problem with Life Balance has always been the inability to change a group of entries. You have to do each one individually, which can be a pain. The organisation of "places" (what GTD types would call "contexts" is excellent; Contexts can contain other Contexts (for example "Mall" can contain "Kinko's") and hours of business can be set for every Context/Place. Very fine. But the interface seems clunky, and there's no way to get stuff in rapidly as there is in iGTD and the (still in alpha) OmniFocus. In short, it's a decent app with some unique features - particularly the "life balancing" algorithm which gives it its name - but it's being rather overtaken by other newcomers. I suspect they really need to give it a major overhaul. |
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Oops -- should have said "work just fine FOR ME". |
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Hmmm... must be a YMMV problem because tear-off notes (which -- if you've note used it -- turn a note made in Pads X into an independent window, like a Sticky) work just fine in this version. (Using 10.4.10). A neat little app. Simple, straightforward, seems reliable. |
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Overwritten. |
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I can't go in for all this "creative juices flowing" business. I'm a professional writer. That's how I put bread on the table. I have to do it anyway, creative juices or no. Organising material is always a chore. At first sight, Schreiberling is a nice solution, halfway between text-only and the complexities of full-bore writers' workbench apps like Scrivener. It's also exceptionally aesthetically pleasing. So I'm certainly going to give it a go & will report back with, hopefully, a _useful_ review instead of the ad hominem blowhard huffery which seems to be getting all too common round here. |
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Re my previous comments -- I bought it. Act of faith but it wasn't much to gamble. Glad I did. Neat, fast, smart, small footprint and excellent for quick jottings. However... the update doesn't seem to work. "Error extracting" it. I imagine that will get fixed soon, though. |
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand. What do you mean, "30 days = serials + registration"? I don't want to sound harsh, because your licensing model seems generous and your price is fair. But I can't tell, from your [demo], if Schreiben can do what I want it to do. It is like test-driving a car but they won't let you see if fourth gear works and they won't let you turn on the lights. "It'll do that," they say; "buy it and you will find out." There is no point in having a demo if it doesn't demonstrate what the app can do, surely? Why not just have a demo which expires after 30 days? How does that change your business model? Perhaps I am being stupid and missing something very obvious, but I really don't understand your point. |
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Developer writes "so of course it is a compromise to disable some points - but you can test and use it as long as you want..." The point is that you (we) CAN'T properly test it and use it because it has been crippled by the developer. Disable some features after 30 days: fine. Don't allow us to test those features: not fine. |
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Impossible to review this fairly as the demo is crippled. Does it not open .rtf files because it can't, or because the function has been disabled in the demo? No way to tell. It might well be a nice and handy little app. I think the developer would do better to put out a time-limited demo, then we could find out. |
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The point of your comment, exactly...? Looks like your brainpatterns aren't complex enough to require Tinderbox. Still, when in doubt, sneer, eh? |
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Corrupted my library, crashed itself repeatedly, crashed Word repeatedly, wouldn't work with Mellel, didn't attach pdfs properly... oh, I could go on. I only revisited this achingly terrible app because of the need to collaborate with a colleague; it proved easier, quicker, better and cheaper (WAY cheaper, time being money) to convert said colleague to Bookends. The whole experience was like meeting an ex in the street and thinking "Wow, was that a lucky escape when we split up." ISI should be ashamed of themselves, but I don't think shame is in their corporate repertoire. |
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Absolutely agree. I am in the same position and I feel I am being gouged. Very poor attitude and compares unfavourably with Mellel and Scrivener. Hell, Scrivener, from scratch, is less than what this company is charging for an upgrade. |
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"A is better than B because B is for kiddies", eh? Meaning? Reasons? |
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I think so the People which, they are already make's use of a grammar checking, is already also use (Microsoft Word) which it's own "Checker" already in. Most Mellel users are writers. And nobody messes with *my* grammar. |
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Come to that, why not just use Preview? Or Acrobat? On a PC? And write your papers in Excel (after all, it's got text fields)? Outlining? Just use tabs in TextEdit, why not. Etc. Yep, in my experience, is better than Yojimbo. Quicker, easier, more "intelligent" and does my stuff. There's always a "why not just..?" to be put forward (why not just retire to the Indian Ocean islands and lead a simpler, better life?) but they're not, generically, very helpful in the long run. |
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As a long-time user of DevonThink, I'm beginning to fret a little. Why? First, it demands total fidelity. If you live in DevonThink and have just one database, you're fine. But multiple databases ("Which one did I put that thing about iambic hexameter?") or multiple database managers (DT plus Yojimbo, EagleFiler, VoodooPad etc) leave you in trouble for one very simple reason: NO SPOTLIGHT SUPPORT. Spotlight has changed the way I handle data. Just put it away and it can be found when needed. DevonThink doesn't play. Not "doesn't play nicely". Doesn't play at all. As far as Spotlight is concerned, all that stuff you have in DT just doesn't exist. This is a major problem. The lack of tagging is another. DT demands that you have a hierarchical folder system, which in turn demands pre-categorizing of data, and, worse, single categorization. Once snippet X is in folder Y, show's over; there are kludges -- "replicants" and "notes" -- but they are... well, they're kludgy. Devon Tech are falling well behind the curve here. The app is good and stable and some of its functions are excellent. Introduce Spotlight transparency and tagging, and it would be superb. But for now... well, I'm not getting a divorce but I am, shall we say, married-but-looking... |
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No ability to format references in footnotes (despite "improved" functionality with Mellel? In that case, still no use in much of the humanities field. Sorry. But I'd love to know what's do very hard about the problem that we're on version 4 and still no progress. |
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Downloaded it. Mounted the disk image. Copied the app. Launched it. "Your trial-period for Listz has now expired." Gosh, does't the time fly by? It might have been fun but now I'll never know. |
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Scrivener is late to the party, and a good thing too. The developer, a writer himself, has listened to what writers want, watched over the shortcomings of other offerings, worked out where his app fits in the workflow (between data-gathering in, in my case, DevonThink and Tinderbox, and final drafting in Mellel) and produced a superb environment for organising information, stitching together the plethora of drafts and rethinks that make up the process, providing a toolkit which is nothing short of extraordinary for a v1.0 product and generall making at least this old scrivener a very happy man. The app is rock-solid; getting stuff in and out is a snap; the interface is elegant (and the fullscreen mode drop-dead gorgeous) and although there are the inevitable few quibbles the only one I can think of that's particularly significant is the project-wide notes section -- but at least it's got one. Full outlining, hierarchical structuring, card-index views, a nifty screenwriting module and excellent versioning make this the perfect writers' toolkit. It's a masterly piece of work. As I wrote to the developer during beta testing, any dope can wrie a book (and many of us do) but it takes cojones to build a writing environment like this one. You owe it to yourself to try it. |
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Feedback is fine. Uninformed, lazy feedback, though, doesn't help anyone. |
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There seems to be a huge amount of misunderstanding about what Tinderbox actually _is_, partly because, to go beyond the basics (which are themselves pretty powerful) does indeed involve a steep learning curve... as in "learning". Like you have to do with any tool. And partly because Tinderbox is, in the end, more or less whatever you want it to be. Which is why it takes some learning. Personally, I can't understand why anyone would spring for a CAD/CAM system or Adobe InDesign. Why? Because I don't need them or use them. I do need and use Tinderbox. Its web features -- handy customizable blogging, for example -- are wasted on me. So I don't use them. But the rest, I _do_ use. Since I first ran across Tinderbox I've used it for two full-length books (and currently on a third) and lord knows how many articles, lectures, papers and what-have-you. The price question is economics 1.01. For the cost of Tinderbox, a commercial organization will buy approximately 20 minutes of my time. Given slack-time, prep. etc., TInderbox is probably representing a capital outlay of one hour of my time. It has saved me that hour time and again; most recently when I wanted to set up some reasonably complex bibliographic stuff. I could have spent an hour searching for off-the-peg software (though there isn't any); instead, I spent the hour in building it myself in Tinderbox. Job done, and fit for purpose. In other words, YMMV. Perhaps if people thought of Tbx as an _environment_ rather than a standard app., it might clarify things a bit. I know that about 70% of people I show it to say "Oy gottenyu" or something similar; but 20% say "Hell's teeth, that's EXACTLY what I need." (The other 10% say "Is that a Mac? There's no software for the Mac.") |
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Eheu. Just saw this. "Ignorant"? Yes. "Humble"? Keep working at it. |
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Um... RTFM. Or should that be RTFMFW? |
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I too make my living by writing, and Mellel is my WP of choice (though there are other tools in my workflow: Yojimbo, Tinderbox, DevonThink and Ulysses). Luhmann's comment about .doc/.rtf export doesn't chime with my own experience (two full-length books, numerous articles, several scholarly papers) with Mellel. As one would expect, .rtf is much more reliable than .doc, which is a secretive, proprietary format. My stuff involves multiple heading levels, foot- and end-notes, headers & footers (of course), basic (text-only) tables and the odd graphic or image. Admittedly this isn't as complex as some -- I don't use columns, for example -- but all the same it makes the trip from Mellel to Word via RTF smoothly, without problems. Actually, it's got to the point where I dread finishing stuff because then we have to go into the Beast of Redmond (a.k.a. Wurd) for edits, and in my experience THAT is when things start going wrong. Fortunately my book editor is getting a Mac so we can stay in Mellel until the thing has to go to the printer. So, once again, my judgment, as Mellel evolves (at astonishing speed and with remarkable stability -- i.e., no crashes/data loss, not once, ever -- for a three-man shop) is that it's the best full-on WP on the market. Integration with Bookends/Sente is superb. The only things I personally miss are change tracking, comments and versioning: all collaboration tools, and all of which will, I have no doubt, come. (For the moment, those lacks are the only reason I give it 4* for features rather than 5*. If you aren't using it for collaborationRedleX delivers what they promise, when they promise it. How many other developers can we say the same about? Only drawback is something of a learning curve if you want to get its full power and flexibility. But one could say the same about every powerful app. |
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The onscreen folding of notes is fine. Small footprint. Nice UI. But for a notepad-type app not to have ANY search capabilities at all is completely inexplicable and renders the app useless for more than a single screenful of notes. Add basic search and it might be quite useful. |
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It says much about the attitude of the developers that they define Mellel 2.1 as a point release when, under the hood, it's in some ways a major rewrite (files now in XML) and introduces equally significant new features, especially the new find/replace schema, which is almost as powerful as the old Nisus Writer (Classic) and ten times more user-friendly. From the geek point of view, these guys are Codemeisters: from the users' point of view, they are the most reliable and helpful developers I have ever dealt with. Mellel continues to surprise and delight me, while being utterly rock-solid (I have never had a crash, a hang or a data loss since v1) and a pleasure to use. Mellel does what a good WP should do: gets out of the way and leaves you to write, while being able to produce typographically superb output if you need it. Interchange with Word (via RTF or, if you want, .doc formats) is excellent. No excuse to continue with the Beast of Redmond any more! |
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You know, that really doesn't help anyone. It's thin, truculent and just vague assertions backed up with nothing tangible. If MacUpdate is to be of any use, those of us who try to post helpful and reasoned reviews should start coming down on people who just use it to assert their opinions in the odd belief that opinion alone is worth something. Why did you bother wasting your time? More to the point, why do you think you're entitled to waste OUR time? |
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If you don't like it, don't understand it, don't need it or can't afford it, don't buy it. It's not as if they are forcing your money out of your pocket. If you *do* have a use for it, then it's not a high price to pay. Or are you little people so angry because you've got used to something for, if not nothing, then very little? Cost/benefit analysis is the way to go, don't you think? Oh - and re "I[f] you did not have such a "Major" attitude and scheme I would have been more interested in your product"... see, if *you* did not have such an "Infantile" attitude, I would be more interested in your opinion. For the grown-ups here: Tinderbox is complex and powerful. I've yet to find something it couldn't do within it parameters of use. But, true, it's not for children. Thank goodness. |
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Handsome interface, stable, secure; like the "drop box" for file aliases, and the gallery for pic - accessible from any entry. Purely subjectively, it seems smoother than MacJournal; since I use other apps for the "extra" power of MacJournal, I don't need them for my Day Book and Journal. If you want a catch-all text repository, maybe this isn't for you; but for a dedicated, clean journalling app, viJournal gets my vote. |
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The new update (1.2.2) adds a fair bit of extra functionality to what is already one of my professional (I'm a writer) mainstays. The Formatted Text Export plug-in solves a lot of my... well, not "problems" exactly, but things-I-have-learned-to-workaround-or-live-with. It's pretty powerful, though its power only becomes clear after a bit of fiddling around. Fortunately, I like fiddling around. The app remains unique. Easy to think of it and CopyWrite as basically the same, but they aren't. To explain why in detail would take too much space here; easier to try both for yourself and go with the one that suits your working style. It's still not ideal for academic writing -- footnotes are still a bit more complex than with e.g. Mellel, which handles them wonderfully -- but if your work involves primarily generating narrative text in the context of longer projects (I use it for both books and newspaper columns) then it's splendidly fuss-free, clean and powerful, and, remarkably, slightly less distracting than an old-fashioned typewriter. Which can only be good for The Flow... |
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This doesn't really help anyone. You are comparing two entirely different products that use different approaches to achieve different things. Perhaps you haven't had time to investigate NoteTaker properly (I would imagine that's the case since you don't mention any of its features) but in that case it might be fairer not to say anything at all. For anyone who doesn't know either app, NoteTaker is a broad and powerful information manager which uses a spiral-bound notebook metaphor. MacJournal is a journalling application. Comparing them as this "reviewer" has done is a bit like saying Word is pointless since you can enter text in Excel... Oh, the humanity... |
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