your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

I sync via dropbox.

Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(

I haven't had any issues but I use it sparingly so

or do you mean across multiple machines? cuz I've just got iMac + phone + pad

Two Macs, iPhone, iPad. I've had some notes not updating. I've had some notes created in Simplenote that just don't make it to NV, ever. I can edit them in Simplenote on phone/pad/webapp but that's it.

I've had great luck with the alternative fork of NV. Support for tags, etc. The original NV/SN combo was breaking down, so I tried this one out and have had good results

so i found out about sublime text the other day---anyone using it?

yes, love it.

i like it so far, but it's hard to break out of vim thinking

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

This little tool allows you to visualise what files are on your disk and I've just managed to exorcize 80GB of duplication and guff using it.

windirstat, which is basically the windows version of the same, is also pretty awesome

I shelled out a few bucks for a mac program that is a little prettier and has some more functionality to burrow in. Can't remember what it is at the minute.

disk inventory x does the same thing and is free also

less flashy, but my fave http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/

Yeah, stick with one of those. I think I got some sort of incentive deal on DaisyDisk but its regular price is... $10? yeah, don't pay that much.

I use Disk Inventory X as mentioned above: http://www.derlien.com/

Definitely worth to use one of these programs so you can easily figure out what's taking up all your space obviously porn

i just ran GrandPerspective on my work laptop and found a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB wtf??

I've used both Omnidisksweeper and DaisyDisk.

i like daisydisk

Top tip I used after discovering Chrome.app was taking 1.5GB was to go into the Package contents and delete deprecated versions which Chromes seems to keep but not need.

If i used Terminal more i would definitely try out Cathode

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB

I laughed

if i used terminal less i would try cathode

I figured you were down with iTerm2 or something

terminal.app all the way. iterm is too rough around the edges for an app i'm in all the time.

bbedit worksheets ftw

What my hard drive looks like right now (notes on the Flickr page)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8364/8270245119_8b62be4a2e.jpg

There's a Flickr group for hard drive visualizations: http://www.flickr.com/groups/28207780@N00/

omg at your notes

what do ppl recommend for managing a large library of pdf articles/papers/books/etc?

oh wait that was answered upthread already.

just started with mendeley. pretty impressed.

Doing fine with Zotero here. Maybe download both and try them each for a week before committing.

last night i dreamt i downloaded mendeley again

just got Plex and it is seriously great if you want to beam movie files to a roku or ipad.

elsevier is in talks to acquire mendeley. if they do, lots of people, myself included, will probably ditch it out of general principle. zotero's been recommended here, but someone also suggested docear, which i've downloaded but haven't tried yet.

i have no idea what you just said

^^^

I like to play flow because it's fun to connect the dots.

all the above are programs for managing libraries of pdfs, annotations, citations, etc. elsevier is a big academic publisher that lots of people are boycotting for being expensive, dishonest, and generally horrible.

it's like evernote for bibiography types

Anyone have any good tips on using Emacs on a powerbook, particularly as regards the metakey?
I'm not entirely sure if my problems are specific to Norwegian keyboard layouts.

I installed GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (and run it from the terminal) and there the emacs metakey (I'll call it emeta) isn't bound (unless I go explicitly to the terminal settings and remap it ) so I can't perform any Emacs commands that require the emeta, such as entering M-x.

If I -do- remap that, or if I use the some other Emacs version that was compiled specifically for OSX (I don't recall where I got it, unfortunately) then those commands are OK. BUT then I end up, naturally, unable to do keycombos that require the "standard/apple metakey", that is the alt-key, I guess. Eg. if I want to type the '-character, on my keyboard that is meta-¨ (the key directly to the left of the enter-key).
What do Apple users do to fix this problem? My google-skills have failed me so far. I suppose the trick is to use some other key for Emacs metajoys? What's the trick, in that case? (I figure "fn" would be a good key for this, since I don't think I ever use that for entering text)

Sorry for this dumb question -- I'm new to Apple-land and I'm basically trying to use the machine like a Linux box as much as I can.

wow, i thought i didn't understand s. clover's post...

;_;

I've got this handy control panel called KeyRemap4MacBook. You can even use it to remap the left alt/option to one key while leaving the other alone, or vice versa. But I use aquamacs and run it as a normal app (even though other people tell me that this is an abomination). for quick terminal editing i just use vim, or more often nano.

Thanks, will give KeyRemap a shot. For quick editing this isn't really a problem at all, generally, but I'd like to use it for programming, and then a lot of those meta-commands come in handy.
Guess it was time I learned that it's called the option-key.

KR4MB looks really good, thanks -- in the process of figuring this out, I found that the key IS in fact available already. It's just that meta was mapped to, uh, the esc-key for some reason, so remapping's certainly necessary.

I didn't get s.clover's at all but totally got Øystein's, though my only thought is "emacs sucks use vim"

I pounded enough emacs into my brain years ago to understand it, but I just gave in and went to Coda and/or Sublime Text for text wrangling.

lol emacs

I like Evernote, but the formatting is a pain.

still havering around on note stuff - notational velocity + simplenote is great, but the tagging doesn't quite sync up, which is where evernote wins, but otherwise it feels a bit heavy duty for what I need (and yes, formatting is a bit of a pain).

do you need to tag? is search not enough?