http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/happy_new_year.php

Otherwise, belated Happy New Year to all.

Signed up when I saw it had columns. Couldn't find a way to create them. The buttons on the toolbar to create and manipulate them which were there in the introductory video were not present when I created an outline.

Perhaps I missed something. But without the ability to create custom columns/properties/data types, I am unimpressed.

Tom S.

Tom S. wrote:

Perhaps I missed something. But without the ability to create custom columns/properties/data types, I am unimpressed.

Tom S.

You didn't miss something. (except perhaps a previous thread here: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1312 ;-) )

Columns should be coming in the future

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:

Tom S. wrote:
>Perhaps I missed something. But without the ability to create custom
columns/properties/data types, I am unimpressed.
>
>Tom S.

You didn't miss
something. (except perhaps a previous thread here:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1312 ;-) )

Columns should be
coming in the future

Yes, I got an email apology from the developer. They said that they didn't want to take the time away from development to redo the introductory video.

Tom S.

Were columns ever added to this program? I did not see any when I logged in, but I wanted to make sure I did not miss them.

--Ken

MsJulie wrote:
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/happy_new_year.php

I recently tried to log into a thinklinkr (cloud-based outliner) account I had set up to try it out - no luck. I got the following email from Jason Tillery, one of thinklnkr's developers:

We are in the process of shutting the site down. You can still access your data through the mobile interface. It's read-only but it works. https://thinklinkr.com/mobile

Thanks for using the app,
Jason

I know I harp on this constantly, but this is exactly why I don't like web apps or "The Cloud" and wish they would stop being considered the only way forward. There are many disadvantages but this is the biggest.

I can still use Ecco Pro, but if Thinklinkr was something I relied on, well, it's gone just like hundreds of other web apps before it.

I totally agree. I think of Web apps as being analogous to the applications on servers that I once upon a time accessed through dumb terminals. A PC is a PERSONAL Computer--not a dumb terminal !
-cassius

shatteredmindofbob wrote:

I know I harp on this constantly, but this is exactly why I don't like
web apps or "The Cloud" and wish they would stop being considered the
only way forward. There are many disadvantages but this is the biggest.

I can still use Ecco Pro, but if Thinklinkr was something I relied on,
well, it's gone just like hundreds of other web apps before it.