Anything current that matches GrandView's Category/Assignment capabilities?

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Posted by Cassius
Apr 4, 2007 at 05:59 AM

NoteMap has pretty much all of GrandView’s important outlining capabilities. [If I’m wrong, please disabuse me of my misconceptions.]

However, I can’t think of any current PIM that has all of GV’s Catageory/Assignment features. AM I WRONG???

GV can display columns similar to Ecco’s columns. Each column heading corresponds to a GV Category and each column entry is called an Assignment in GV. As in other PIMs with columns, in GV one can manually enter an assignment into a column at the row corresponding to a particular outline item. But GV can also also create automatic assignment rules:

“If CONDITION Z, then, assign “Assignment A” to “Category C.”

Once you create one or more assignment rules, a simple command causes GV to examine each outline item and, if CONDITION Z is present in the item, then the item gets assigned A in Category C.

GV also had a separate Category/Assignment view with 3 panes:

___________________________________________________________________________________________
| | |
| Category Names | Assignment Names corresponding to a highlighted Category |
| | |
|____________________________ |______________________________________________________________|
| |
| Outline items corresponding to a highlighted Category and Assignment |
| |
|___________________________________________________________________________________________|

In this view, if you highlight (choose) a Category in the top left pane, then all Assignments within that Category are listed in the right pane. If you then highlight an Assignment in the right pane, all the outline items with that assignment are displayed in the bottom pane.

If you then highlight an outline item in the bottom pane and press CTRL-TAB {this doesn’t work in Win XP…you must use a menu}, the outline is displayed with the cursor on the item you chose.

GV has two default Categories, Date and Priority, and also has a Calendar display with assignments listed for each date. Everything is interconnected—there are no orphan views.

So, is there a current PIM that can do this or the equivalent? Millions of GV addicts are waiting with baited breath. (Actually more like hooked fish out of water.)

-c

Say Tom is a bachelor and has created an outline of women he knows with info about each. For example:

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