Re: Journaling software with a timeline...

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2862

Posted by 100341.2151
2005-02-24 23:51:25

> No Holy Grail.

Afraid not. I assume that many of the trivial annoyances - lack of ESC to pull one back from a mistaken choice; having to use Ctrl-DownArrow to step down a list; a highlight on one line covering the next so that it can’t be selected; using big, clunky toylike icons - are usability issues and may relate to its Mac provenance and initial difficulties of porting over. I’m only guessing, but it doesn’t look or feel like a native windows program. The Help facility is little more than notes, and not contextual, so I am still not sure whether the things I want to do can be done.

Having said all that - and usability is, after all, crucial - I’ve already registered my copy. I have found nothing else like it apart from Life Journal, and Living Time’s life history features are much better.

I feel there is a powerful concept at work here. Now it just needs somebody like Zoot’s “Admiral” or Agenda’s Kapor to implement the feature-set as a full-blown research tool.

Derek

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