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Posted by Jack Crawford
Feb 23, 2009 at 05:29 AM
I endorse the earlier comments that this is an intriguing and potentially very useful application. Out of the box, it seems powerful and practical.
If the outlining functionality was further developed, I think I might use it as my primary text outliner. At the moment a Word outline does not seem to retain its indentation if imported into Treesheets, while the export facility to Word does not do this either.
Given the bugs in Notemap, I have been longing for a one-button import/export to Word from a single pane outliner. IQ seems to be getting close, Brainstorm development beckons and now Treesheets offers further potential.
It is not all gloom and doom after all.
Jack
Posted by Cassius
Feb 23, 2009 at 06:10 AM
Jack, have you tried Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com). It’s a bit clunky, but…
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Jack Crawford wrote:
>I endorse the earlier comments that this is an intriguing and potentially very useful
>application. Out of the box, it seems powerful and practical.
>
>If the outlining
>functionality was further developed, I think I might use it as my primary text
>outliner. At the moment a Word outline does not seem to retain its indentation if
>imported into Treesheets, while the export facility to Word does not do this
>either.
>
>
>Given the bugs in Notemap, I have been longing for a one-button
>import/export to Word from a single pane outliner. IQ seems to be getting close,
>Brainstorm development beckons and now Treesheets offers further potential.
>
>It
>is not all gloom and doom after all.
>
>Jack
>
Posted by Jack Crawford
Feb 23, 2009 at 06:26 AM
Cassius wrote:
>Jack, have you tried Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com). It’s a bit clunky,
>but…
Yes I have a licence for Inspiration and use it occasionally for business diagrams. It is one of very few apps that can toggle on the fly between text and graphics.
However I crave an elegant text only one-pane outliner that links to Word (both import and export). As you say, Inspiration is clunky and I don’t really enjoy working with a lot of text, such as report writing. While they are trying to emphasize its potential business use, it was primarily designed for the primary and secondary education markets.
Jack
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.
Posted by Jack Crawford
Feb 24, 2009 at 08:31 AM
For those interested in following Treesheet’s development trajectory, a Google group has just been set up for further discussion and announcements.
http://groups.google.com/group/treesheets.
Jack