I can store the MJ’s database on my iDisk, and so my desktop and my laptop are always in sync (barring any weirdness where both apps are open at once). I just thought I’d fire them off as I discover/think about them while playing “dumb user”: Here are a few initial comments/observations about DT. ![]() For a while now, I’ve been using MacJournal to keep all my plain-text writing organized. Thanks! I’m looking at it pretty closely at the moment. Stick around I guarantee your usage will evolve with it. Part of the fun of using DT is watching its evolution. You might enjoy reading this thread: /cgi-b … 1064000931 Some other trains moving on somewhat parallel tracks. Now that TextEdit reads and writes Word documents natively, it would seem that the ground is prepared. Should I need to make "real" changes to them, I want to be able to send the document to a more advanced editor–Word, for instance–make the changes, and then go back to iDocument (or whatever you want to call it). And I want all of the bells and whistles: I want to be able to set up "playlists" of documents I want to be able to tell this application to stick all documents meeting certain criteria in a specific playlist I want to be able to view those documents, and perhaps even make a few changes to them. I want an iPhoto or iTunes for documents. What I want, then, is something that will allow me to store, catalog, search, find, view, and perhaps even manipulate at a perfunctory level, all the documents I have. And again, sure, I could do this with aliases or shortcuts. ![]() And in addition, if I move the document or copy it, its contents aren’t affected in all the places where it’s stored. And while I have a “Documents” folder on my hard drive, finding a document means that I still have to know where it is, and that I have to place the document there in the first place. ![]() I have hundreds and hundreds of documents–my own, from my students, from my colleagues, random clippings from the web, you name it. But I could do that with photos or music before iTunes or iPhoto. Sure, I can use folders and sub-folders in the Finder to deal with them. What’s missing is a way to manage effortlessly the things that most computers in the world are used to create: documents. I keep thinking, though, that what’s missing is a way to manage with ease those files that are most common on every single computer in the world. Managing my digital photos used to require a similar process. Managing my mp3 library used to be an intricate process involving the construction of hundreds of folders and sub-folders in the Finder. ![]() And what’s more, they always seem to come up with ways to make our lives easier that we didn’t think were all that complicated to begin with. One of the things that Apple is so good at, and one of the reasons people like me keep sticking with them when it seems as if the wheels are about to come off the wagon (and I wasn’t even a Mac user when things were bad), is that in addition to making gear that just plain works, they also keep coming up with ways to make life just a little easier. I have no idea what’s going on, other than that the link shot me about 600+ hits today. Could someone post Scott’s comments here? Scott’s website is either down, or not making friends with my ISP’s DNS.
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