Re: archives from the golden age of outlining task managers
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Outliners.com Message ID: 3228
Posted by srdiamond15
2005-05-10 21:43:11
“Alex, ADM is the closest product to InControl I have seen (except perhaps for ECCO). When in the Mac world, I also used InControl, and loved it.” - Daly
As I remember InControl, from its inception it was a far more usable program than ADM. Take just one facet important in both programs, Views. InControl would “remember” the various aspects of the display that the user might consider important. ADM leaves out so much, that for my usage, you might as well not even have views. In fact, with views, there is still a less useful display than most programs retain simply from the previous session of use.
ADM doesn’t let you control which topics are expanded or how wide the columns are: it doesn’t memorialize these characteristics in “Views”; it doesn’t even remember the expansion state or column width from one *session* of use to another.
How can a program that makes you re-set most things up each time around be usable?
Stephen R. Diamond