Yes, it get’s nasty confusing. In TP it is much easier because Jesse has the tagging function installed, so i can sort them out. ]Take a look at his new product, the replacement, it seems for WR iPhone. It will be synced via DropBox, and I assume, will allow for folding at the client level.

While we are on the subject, I go hot and cold on NV. It’s cool as a drive by editor as I noted, but if you have any kind of intellectual production capacity you wiz past its capabilities to manage data in a meaningful way, rather quickly. I can add a dozen, or dozens) of notes to my info base a day, and I’m adding pdfs and images as well. So I find NV limiting. It’s funny, Merlin Mann was doing a podcast over on Mac PowerUser and was referencing my article on DEVONThink but couldn’t find the exact quote while on air. He powers up NV but because of the size of his database he couldn’t find it in that “in the stress of the situation” situation.

Where I am gravitating to, through shear weight of real world use, is using the mobile devices just as one would use a paper journal when out and about; a place to ADD new data and ideas as they come up. They then end up on my macBook or iMac, or what amberV has been recently been calling “a legitimate computer” and it is there that they reside. This work flow has been gaining points now that the DropBox mobil apps have a searching function, and now that they allow files to be opened and edited in other app on the iPad/iPhone, and developers are using that API to make their apps DropBox aware.

So, as a writer, if you think of Journaling separately from Writing (as, to my mind, you should – idea and fact capture is not the same as writing to tone and mood) then the mobile devices become a tool of capture (and a little augmentation in that window before they get moved over to the DropBox/HardDrive folders) and the ‘legitimate computer’ is where the writing takes place, as in Scrivener or WriteRoom or whatever.

I am a new iPod Touch user (3 months or so) and I have a 32GB, Gen3 one. I’ve loaded iOS4. WriteRoom for iPhone and TaskPaper for iPhone were among the first apps I loaded on the iPod. I have WriteRoom for the Mac and have recently come to the conclusion that Notational Velocity is for me. Future-proofing and all that.

I set up NV with the SimpleText folder on my iPod but then was distressed to see (obviously) that all the files showed up on my iPhone. For some reason, I hadn’t seen that part. To date, I have a dozen and a half files (slightly more) I sync with iPhone/WR/TP/ST website/ST app.

Here’s my question: when you set up WR and TP for the iPhone to be linked with your NV app on your Mac, don’t you have loads and loads of files on your iPhone? Doesn’t that get confusing? Or do you merely search for anything you need (on iPhone) and can get to it pretty easily? In NV on my Mac, I can access stuff quite swiftly. Moreover, is having all that data something you rely on when your mobile?

BTW, I am really enjoying your website. I found it through Minimal Mac, among others.

“Yet very few corporate strategists making important decisions consciously take into account the cognitive biases—systematic tendencies to deviate from rational calculations—revealed by behavioral economics. It’s easy to see why: unlike in fields such as finance and marketing, where executives can use psychology to make the most of the biases residing in others, in strategic decision making leaders need to recognize their own biases. So despite growing awareness of behavioral economics and numerous efforts by management writers, including ourselves, to make the case for its application, most executives have a justifiably difficult time knowing how to harness its power.”

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_case_for_behavioral_strategy_2551

Since I’m here, a friendly word for “Influential” not “Influlencial” (2nd title) and “grok” not grock.

Cheers, D

http://macpowerusers.com/2010/03/mpu-023-workflows-with-merlin-mann/

For instance, in my EagleFiler library, I store fonts, some dmgs of applications I keep when I install a new machine, and other binary data. As I’m slowly migrating data to the system, I’m wondering if it should all go in.

Thanks,

Alan

I’ll keep playing with this system for a couple weeks, and see how well it goes. I’ll probably come back here for additional questions ;-)

Thanks again,

Alan

In my documents folder I have what I think of as my root folders…

• Admin (Bills, finance, taxes and such)

• Commerce (Ephemeral project files)

• Gaming (yep. I’m one of those)

• Organizer (Of less and less use over time)

• Reference (Static items like System notes, shortcuts, graphics files)

• Topics (The biggie, home to 100+ topic sub-folders)

• Writing (The other biggie, where all my work resides)

Why? I like having a specific environment for things like my Writing work. Some day I’ll post a screen shot, but I’ve added icon graphics and background pictures to all my root folders reflective of their individual purpose. My Writing folder has a zen like sprig of wheat on rice paper and its icon is a star burst (kind of).

I’m trying to implement something similar to what you did, inside EagleFiler (with the insurance that if I stop using it, the file naming convention will preserve all the metadata). One thing I did not find clear from your description is where you store your files: you mention aliases very often, so do you keep everything in one folder then do aliases from there?