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![]() And OmniOutliner has more export options than CPN.īut yup, not a nice situation at the moment. And so far, I really like OmniOutliner, but the same rules apply here as well: no data island. Some bugs (e.g., if you use dividers, pages after the dividers might be indented further in, which is a problem of CPNs export), but those can be solved. It works, but slowly (for a 260+ pages CPN about 6 hours). I’ve transferred a three or four CPNs manually to OmniOutliner so far. Sure, some apps vanished, but I hardly ever noticed it or had already moved on. #BEAR VS MACJOURNAL SOFTWARE#Yup, it’s one of the first deaths of software for me too. Nonetheless, a rather capable notebook that continues to steadily gain features available in the Windows version. #BEAR VS MACJOURNAL MAC#Also, tags are currently not able to be customized in the Mac version, making them of little value. #BEAR VS MACJOURNAL FREE#Unfortunately, only the free version is available on the Mac, so data mused be saved to OneDrive, a deal breaker for some. Double clicking opens the document in OmniOutliner and changes are saved back to the hosting PIM.įinally there is OneNote, a program to which CP NoteBook always compared itself. The secondary program indexes the OmniOutliner documents, which allows for search. The OmniOutliner pages are created by QuickLook preview, which interestingly enough allows for node folding, but they are only viewable at 100%. It can, however, be combined with something like Together, DEVONthink or EagleFIler. On its own, OmniOutliner is no notebook it only handles a single outline at a time. Well worth a look – it has an extraordinarily responsive developer. So moving forward, what are the alternatives? In essence, Curio is a vastly more feature rich environment that can be used as a notebook, and handles outlines, as well as many other types of input – tables, mind maps etc. Apparently the reference to Alphabet was meant as a joke, although some outlets reported that CPN had been bought by Google. Yes Circus Ponies notebook will be missed. The switch to OO is not simple at the beginning, but it turns out OO is highly customizable (I built a template with the same colors as CPN, resembling a notebook), very stable and fast. But frankly, the sente thing is really related to their business model: program + unlimited server space for 70$, and nothing else for 5 years, that wasn’t sustainable! I just hope the two other cornerstones of my workflow, namely DTPro and Ulysses, won’t encounter problems as well. So yes, we should be wary of proprietary systems. #BEAR VS MACJOURNAL PDF#Bookends’ developper built a nice export interface, and was really helpful (even providing a new build within hours) when I ran into troubles, but I discovered that Sente was doing its highlighting not in pdf kit but in some proprietary format which doesn’t export well (or at all): so the annotation and highlighted contents are kept, but the placeholders and highlights themselves are lost (unless one wants to spend hours exporting them by hand – I personnaly have 4657 refs as of today in my main (now Bookends) database). Well, time to move on / away, which, as it turns out, is not so simple. Well, the Sente team stopped responding to messages months ago, and suddenly closed their tenderapp, leaving all users to dry – there was a lively community, which provided most of the help, and the shutting down of the forum is simply unacceptable. Including one diploma thesis, one dissertation thesis, two books ( one of them a pretty good book), and lots and lots and lots of other stuff. Something with which I have made a lot of happy memories - mostly creating stuff.Īnd thank you CPN for all you allowed me to do. Who knows, it might actually lead to an overall improvement.īut damn, one of the lynchpins of my information infrastructure just died. But to look at the positive side of things(*), I’m forced to think about my infrastructure again - in an non-superficial manner. ![]() Perhaps I’ll use Omni Outliner, perhaps I’ll use another solution. But to be on the safe side, I’m going to start looking for alternatives soon (somewhat constrained by being currently swamped by work). I guess I have time until I get another mac that uses a version of OS X which CPN does not support. #BEAR VS MACJOURNAL HOW TO#I’m going to grief for a while, but I’m also going to plan how to get my data out of the CPNs and into another program. But still surprising and devastating if it actually happens.Īnyway. Hmm, although there were warning signs months ago - and I did get a couple of comments about its looming end ( e.g., here). ![]() The outlines, the notebook metaphor, so many great ideas. The software was a joy to use and a great way to work with digital data. One of the best programs for the Mac just died. A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own. ![]()
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