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   Save 25% on Take Control Books and 15 Mac Apps in SummerFest Sale

   Adam C. Engst

   Joe Kissell may have taken control of Take Control ('[1]Take Control
   Books Acquired by Joe Kissell,' 1 May 2017), but we still want to make
   sure TidBITS readers are aware of the ongoing [2]SummerFest sale. In
   it, you can save 25 percent on all Take Control titles and numerous
   other apps from indie developers through the end of Monday, June 26th.

   Since Joe took over last month, he and the Take Control team have
   released two new books:
     * Scholle McFarland's all-new '[3]Take Control of Calendar and
       Reminders' is one of those sleeper titles that Tonya and I pull out
       whenever Apple's Calendar and Reminders apps get weird on us, which
       happens all too often. We've also been consulting that book more as
       we rationalize our shared calendar setup with Tristan, now that he
       has graduated from high school and is preparing to head off to
       Cornell in August.
     * Michael Cohen's '[4]Take Control of Pages, Second Edition' is the
       canonical reference for Apple's Pages word processor and layout
       program. The current version of Pages has acquired new and useful
       capabilities, such as collaborative editing, while simultaneously
       regaining features lost in the jump to the cross-platform Pages 5.0
       back in 2013.

   What I most like about SummerFest is that it's a group effort by
   software makers who don't have big marketing budgets. By working
   together, they can achieve more than the sum of their individual
   contributions. [5]Other apps on which you can save 25 percent in the
   SummerFest sale include:
     * Aeon Timeline 2: Plot out timelines for creative thinking
     * BBEdit: Our choice for text manipulation and TidBITS writing
     * Bookends: A reference manager collecting, annotating, and citing
       information
     * DEVONagent Pro: Search, filter, and explore data across multiple
       sites
     * DEVONthink Pro Office: A powerful and flexible document management
       app
     * HoudahSpot: Go beyond Spotlight when searching for content on your
       Mac
     * Nisus Writer Pro: It's what all Take Control books are written in
     * PDFpen: For when you need to edit and manipulate PDFs
     * Scapple: Jot down notes and draw lines between related ideas
     * Scrivener: A writing studio for novels, scripts, and research
       papers
     * Storyspace: The preeminent tool for writing interlinked hypertext
       documents
     * Taskpaper: Plain-text to-do list utility backed by full outlining
       capabilities
     * TextExpander: Because you can do more when you type less
     * Tinderbox: A powerful personal information assistant and
       note-taking tool
     * WriteRoom: Full-screen writing and editing without distractions

References

   1. http://tidbits.com/article/17200
   2. http://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
   3. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/calendar-reminders
   4. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/pages
   5. http://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/

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