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Posted by Amontillado
Feb 28, 2023 at 04:29 PM
Hang on a sec.
Whining? Andy? Hardly. He isn’t in competition with Scrivener. He just made a business observation.
Andy’s Hyperplan works well as a replacement for Plottr. Set attributes for plot thread and chapter, and display chapters as rows and plot threads as columns (or vice versa).
That’s why I bought it. I found it worked more to my liking as a kanban utility, but it isn’t bad for story planning.
One strength it’s got is that connections (lines between cards) are actually navigable. Typical mind maps allow adding connections, but don’t have a way to navigate them. If you end up with a bowl of spaghetti, it’s hard to follow the lines. Hyperplan will list the connections from each card. Superior.
Would you prefer not to be able to contact developers? Microsoft Word might be your best choice. If you can contact developers, is it OK for them to have a signature block identifying what they develop?
Andy, please don’t stop posting here.
22111 wrote:
>
>Thus my impression that his whining, and (obviously just made-up)
>“surprise” (or “disgust”? whatever) here about a third party’s
>commercial strategy which, for once (?), mimics the, by himself, very
>well-beaten path, was just another hook for advertising his non-outline
>sw.
> (snip)
>A post that makes 3 ads for one’s own (and then, not even connected) biz
>interests in a row, but, in order to make those “pass”, feigns
>“incomprehension” about that biz’s own, and very largely applied by that
>very biz, marketing strategy, is…
>
>yeah, you name it: SPAM.
Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 28, 2023 at 04:33 PM
Jon Polish wrote:
Andy, I think Scrivener is doing exactly the same thing. The “lifetime”
>deal is for version 3, so if you want to upgrade to 4, you pay for the
>new version.
>
>At least that is how I am reading it.
Looking at it again, I think you are probably right. It is ‘lifehacker’ who are being (either deliberately or unntentionally) sloppy in their use of language, by calling it a ‘lifetime subscription’. They should have called it a perpetual licence for v3.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 28, 2023 at 04:36 PM
Yes, that was my understanding, too.
Andy Brice wrote:
>
>Jon Polish wrote:
>Andy, I think Scrivener is doing exactly the same thing. The “lifetime”
>>deal is for version 3, so if you want to upgrade to 4, you pay for the
>>new version.
>>
>>At least that is how I am reading it.
>
>Looking at it again, I think you are probably right. It is ‘lifehacker’
>who are being (either deliberately or unntentionally) sloppy in their
>use of language, by calling it a ‘lifetime subscription’. They should
>have called it a perpetual licence for v3.
Posted by Jon Polish
Feb 28, 2023 at 05:43 PM
To Andy:
I’ve noticed an increase in the use of “lifetime” when referring only to a major version. This is potentially misleading but the developer probably means that you have the version for life with no additional charges.
To Amontillado:
Agreed. I learned of HyperPlan here and it is valuable for any number of things. But one unexpected benefit was to demonstrate the value of pivot tables (in an easy to understand way) for evaluating some of our data. For years, nobody got it. A few demos using HyperPlan and it clicked. I blame the teacher (me).
Andy’s other program, Easy Data Transform has also been valuable and on occasion, saved me from anything from disaster to a day’s slog through a morass of tedium.
Jon
Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 28, 2023 at 05:49 PM
Thanks for the kind words. But you do know you’re going to set off @22111 again!