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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 21, 2011 at 12:55 PM
As I tried to install your application, Norton AntiVirus intervened and deleted it saying it was removing a threat to my computer.
Steve Z.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 21, 2011 at 01:29 PM
Could I just mention a quite nice hierarchical to-do solution: Task List Guru (free) and its big brother Swift To-Do List (both from http://www.dextronet.com). Good, sensible design. Only downside: no networking. But apparently they’re working on that.
I know it’s been mentioned before, but you could also take a look at Pagico. And for a very nice (free) alternative, try Tonido (the Workspace component, which allows you to hierarchise tasks and also attach more or less anything to each task, including comments, notes, files, other tasks etc. etc. etc.). It synchronises directly between machines on a network, and can also synchronise over the Internet. Better still, you can get your own “TonidoPlug”, which is a tiny Linux server you can use to set up your own mini-network (obviously that isn’t free). Tonido Workspace also includes chat/forum/calendar/notes/file management components, so you can use it as a complete work organisation tool for a team.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Graham Rhind
Apr 21, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Just to comment that I’ve experience Norton becoming over sensitive over the past few weeks, with it deleting quite harmless installations such as Personal Brain updates, so it’s a distinct possibility that it’s making a mistake with this software too.
Graham
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>As I tried to install your application, Norton AntiVirus intervened and deleted it
>saying it was removing a threat to my computer.
>
>Steve Z.
Posted by Lucas
Apr 21, 2011 at 02:47 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Could I just mention a quite nice hierarchical to-do solution: Task List Guru (free)
>and its big brother Swift To-Do List (both from http://www.dextronet.com). Good, sensible
>design. Only downside: no networking. But apparently they’re working on that.
>
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the suggestion. As far as I can tell, these programs do not allow hierarchical arrangement of tasks, but only hierarchical arrangement of task lists (in other words, they’re like two-pane rather than one-pane outliners). In my original post, I was referring to the ability to add a sub-task to a task, then a sub-task to that sub-task, etc.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Apr 21, 2011 at 03:07 PM
Norton gave me no problems when I installed The Now Organizer.
It’s a bit of a half program at the moment - it still needs a lot of development to get it to a decent level, if you ask me. No help file yet, no preferences, no ability to show “completed” tasks or get a one back into view if you complete it accidentally, I don’t get the “rewards” idea, and its interface reacts rather slowly. I also managed to crash it within about 30 seconds just by clicking before it was ready. Could be usable but it needs lot of work ...
Also, a personal dislike of mine, no geographic address or further company information about the developers. Tends to sow the seeds of doubt in one’s mind, especially if one’s anti-virus package plays up.
Graham