TreeSheets

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 23, 2009 at 07:10 PM

I’ve been playing around a bit with TreeSheets, and I am excited by the concept. The Zoom feature is great—like hoisting to an individual cell, although in TS you can see an entire grid.

I do have some criticisms or suggestions (which I have e-mailed to the developer):

1. It would be nice to have the option of making the first row and the first column bold type to indicate they are headers. Additionally, it would be nice to be able to make any cell’s text bold for sub-headers.

2. Editing in the cells is a bit restrictive because they do not support standard selection options. For instance, to select a whole word, one needs to sweep the cursor from the start of the word to the end of the word. This can be difficult sometimes, especially since the type scales. In a standard word processor, you can select a whole word by double-clicking on it, and subsequent words by keeping the left mouse button depressed after the second click and sweeping forward. For TS to be a work environment, I think it needs better editing in the cells.

3. Instinctively, I want to use the tab key to move from one cell to the next, but hitting the tab key seems to do nothing. It would nice to make this behave more like a typical spreadsheet.

As you said, Alexander, it works great with Brainstorm. That’s a nice plus.

Steve Z.