VoodooPad

VoodooPad is a program which I purchased back around Memorial Day, and I have to say this wiki program for the Mac is working quite well for me. I’ve been a long time user of ConnectedText on the Windows platform, but of late I’ve pretty much exclusively moved to the Mac and only run windows under Parallels or Wineskin Winery.

My wiki lust of course was frustrated by not being able to conveniently use a program that easily and seamlessly links between entries in the way that Wiki’s generally do. ConnectedText had always worked in this way and certainly VoodooPad does a better job with such links than other note taking programs for OS X. I’d certainly like to find another program like ConnectedText or VoodooPad to test and in fact on IOS there is Trunk Notes which certainly hold promise as a Wiki that not only allows casual linking between notes, but also supports markdown and the Lua programming language.

And speaking of markdown I should also not forget to mention that VoodooPad entries can be written using that format, although I did find out that at the moment there seems to be certain limitations in the implementation and how markdownformatted text interacts with the Wiki structure.

Anyhow, I’m still very much in the exploration stage with VoodooPad so I’m really not ready to give it a full scale review, but perhaps sometime in the future…

Useful Bartender

I’ve just discovered this app after check out recent entries in Frank Eve’s useful and interesting blog on Mac, IOS, and BC. Actually I’ve come across other interesting pieces in Frank’s blog, but that’s for another time.

Bartender is now an essential Mac application for me since it specifically addresses a cluttered and too busy an OS X menu bar. This will most probably only develop after you’ve owned a Mac for a while, but believe me you’ll get there. Bartender allows application icons which might ordinarily be pushed out of site to be relocated into a new menu bar which can sit below the regular one. It’s a simple concept that fulfills a need and it’s available for no cost so try it!

Dropbox, Markdown and IOS

I’m fiddling around with probably far too many editor apps for ios. At this point I’m using (from way back) Simplenote, Day One and I’ve just installed and started playing around with Trunk Notes. And now I’m getting keen on checking out Elements. Perhaps I should stop this incessant experimentation especially as there are other editor apps that I occasionally use on my iPhone such as Plaintext, Drafts (quite like this one) and possibly some other apps. I also use EverNote but this software is something I tend to reserve for storing webpage clips in.

And so I find after checking these different apps, that one thing that some have in common is dropbox sync and markdown support, and apps in this category are probably the most seductive to me.

Blog editing programs

At the moment I’m trying to decide whether or not to compose my blog posts in MarsEdit or go over to VoodooPad. Both programs are seductive environments in different ways, but the former is definitely more mainstream and in any case I actually do my main writing from within Byword and then copy and paste or just connect using Quickcursor