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

;_;

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

but I have an iphone

i use wunderlist as a todolist / note app (just stick 'em in todos). syncs between phone/computer/web.

i also have anywhere from 3 to 8 random textedit windows open at any given time, for stuff i'm not worried about syncing.

not a brilliant system, but i used to write notes in like halves of the cardboard wraps for bubble-packed gum and stuff, so this is an advance for me.

omnifocus "free" license apparently expires in like seven more days. feh. can't imagine actually spending ~100$ on any sort of planner app.

Asana is fantastic for todolist type stuff. Web based

http://app.asana.com

do you need to tag? is search not enough?

― caek, Friday, February 1, 2013 11:21 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Not quite - i try to include keywords, but because of my addled brain end up using things like 'poetry'/'poems', 'books'/'lit' - it's handy to have the list tbh.

but i have just found you can tag in NV (ctrl+shift+t), so that's cool.

anyone use a finance app? don't really want to drop any coin on it : /

seems like options are ynab, moneywiz, money, ibank?

I've tried a few apps (because i am SHITE with money and need to be less shite) and just found the whole chore of keeping them updated stopped them being effective.

ended up constructing an incredibly complicated (for me) spreadsheet in google docs/drive, which I can just copy and paste my Internet statement into, and it does a load of calculations that tell me how much money I've got left to spend/save that month and it has completely changed my life. I've got money left over at the end of the month etc, can see clearly what I can and can't spend and what categories I'm spending on etc.

Sorry, that probably isn't much help, but I wanted to eulogise the power of financial planning (this may not be news to more prudent types I realise).

we use mint, which is free - my wife is the financial person so i can't say too much about how good it is but she seems happy with it

anyone use a finance app?

I'm on iBank, with the iPhone version as well, which is pretty nice. While I'm out I enter everything in the phone and sync it up later on, downloading transactions from the bank to see what I've missed. It's not pretty like Mint or whatever, it's more like OS9 Quicken. I like it, because I want more of an accounting ledger than a budget pie chart. But I wish it was prettier. Simple looks reeaaaaaallly nice.

ended up constructing an incredibly complicated (for me) spreadsheet in google docs/drive

I ended up doing this with two accounts - one is the discretionary 'allowance' account, the other is the expenses one that the automated bill payouts are drawn on (which is everything except rent for me). The expenses acct gets the direct salary deposit, and I just move X amount from that account to the allowance account, and that's the debit card that I carry around to pay for lunches, etc with. The amounts that are allowed to exist in either account are set by a fairly simple spreadsheet that lists monthly liabilities that I revise a couple times a year. This way I never overdraft, never overspend, it's nice.

But going back to apps, iBank is your thing if you were into Quicken before they completely lost it. I would be into Mint if I wasn't creeped out by shoveling all my transactions at some third party online. I have reservations about Simple too since they're effectively an inserted middleman between you and your bank, they're not the bank themselves.

don't use one but some friends say v. good things about mint.

I just signed up with mint and added my student loans and holy shit I'm depressed now

mint not available for britishers : /

afaict this sort of software never really got going in UK/europe because we don't use cheques any more, so reckoning/balancing consists of looking at yr bank statement

i wrote a cheque once. never forget.

lol checks

are credit cards a big thing in the UK?

more debit cards. also for bills direct debits (don't know what the US equivalent is -- basically you agree that eg the electricity company can ask for as much as they want from your account on a certain day each month)

finding mint pretty useful since it categorizes all the transactions I make with my credit card; nice breakdown. otoh won't let me add a category for 'coke habit.'

def dealt with checks in France alas

debit cards are bigger in canada than the us, even! they all have those neat chips in them and a lot of restaurants have little remote swipe pads they bring to your table.

I have reservations about Simple too since they're effectively an inserted middleman between you and your bank

I feel more like Simple is a good business model because they're effectively a company that is completely focused on making your transactions as easy as possible and they're unconcerned with the backend money storage. A lot of the pain of traditional banks is their constant efforts to figure out how to deal with cash flow while making money off of stored cash. This way, you have one entity concentrated on the money, and one on the transactions.