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

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?

simplenote's sync has become a shitshow for me, unfortunately. Agree there's a sweet spot being missed somewhere between the barebones of NV/Simplenote and the dreadnought of evernote

NV on mac + notesy on IPHONE fine for me

caek otm

Yeah, this guy's losing data thanks to the new simplenote sync http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/01/simplenote-lifeline.html

omnifocus 1 is free while they are trialling 2

http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/anticipating-omnifocus-2

New one looks really nice; the old one was a bit of a mess tbh

OmniOutliner 4 looks even better. OO3 is fantastic but butt-ugly
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OmniOutliner-640x539.png

nice.

solveur is cool now that i found a use for it.

wow NV is great

(both versions)

switched to using Scratch for quick notes over SimpleNote a while ago, works pretty well

Feel a little guilty that I never really use the Omni apps as deeply as I could because they are great

omnifocus one of four apps i have permanently open (chrome, terminal, mail)

Is there any overview of what these note apps can/can't do? Are any of them usable for writing down maths?

obv they can take in latex, the only reasonable way to write math(s)

can't make the code but that's just window dressing

there's one that renders the latex math, I'm almost certain

Sure I can just type in latex as text, it can get a bit unreadable though.

xp that sounds good, I guess I can search around

So you can get Latex rendering in Evernote by using (initially wrote "yousing" wth!) eat.ags. Not committed yet to using fancy hoonja-doonjas but I'll give it a go.

Got sick of sync issues with Simplenote, finally extracted myself from it (which was not trivial, btw - contact me if you want to do this and are having problems. One of the reasons I left was that some of my notes created in Simplenote simply never made it to NV, so I had to export all my notes as JSON, then parse them, then etc etc.)

Now on NV+Dropbox+Notesy and having ... sync issues. Can easily work around so far but FFFF.

i think u guys should just get a notepad and a pencil