Speare VS Twiki

Speare Reviews

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Speare mentions (2)

• Notetaking app similar to index cards but where you can create small notes quickly and put them into categories/stacks (as you would with normal index cards)

  Anyone seen a note-taking app where you can just drag and drop sentences, paragraphs, notes etc. Into buckets/folders or similar types of divides. Perhaps like https://speare.com - would really like an easier way to collect together refs than exhausting copy and paste. For my book I ended up printing out notes, cutting them up, and arranging them in stacks. Was great fun but I find it insane there is not any... Source: 11 months ago

• Dragging/dropping feature OR easy way to move many notes into categories or folders (stacking like index cards)

  Is there a function on Obsidian - or any other application - where you can just drag and drop sentences, paragraphs, notes etc. (or atomic notes) into buckets/folders or similar types of divides. The notes are small - sometimes a sentence or a clause - and for that reason I don't tend to use Obsidian due to having to make a note title for each file. I am looking more for something like https://speare.com - an... Source: 11 months ago

Twiki mentions (2)

• Ask HN: What is your longest lasting code?

  I've been in the IT racket for over 30 years, so maybe I have an unfair advantage in terms of candidates. I helped rewrite FIS (RSTS) as XENTIS (VMS) for Park Software in the early 1980s and worked on it for over a decade. It lasted as long as VMS did. This was the prototypical "report writer" / wizard. I wrote a logistics system for a nonprofit on donated VAX hardware. That lasted a decade before Y2K doomed their... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• DMs: a wiki is your best friend

  Depends on what Wiki you end up using. DokuWiki has plugins for that sort of thing, MoinMoin, TWiki, Tiki has built in those functions as far as I know. Source: over 2 years ago