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Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 22, 2011 at 03:46 PM
Hi.,
You mean the “horizontal” axis, i.e. the timelines? Don’t remember how many you can create but it is more than the 4 you seen on the screenshot.
Your 2nd question: What exactly is it you want to know?
Why not download the trial and see for yourself? The software is available in German, by the way.
Franz
Posted by Foolness
Sep 22, 2011 at 04:04 PM
Oh I’m just trying to help with your topic.
I don’t really understand German which is why I translated the text to English.
Swim lanes are really a hard to define as feature as sometimes it connects with freeform writing which are not truly swim lanes.
Infoqube could technically be a swim lane software for example but it can also be more of a spreadsheet. Tobu is another example of something that could count as a swim lane but it’s not really an outliner. Basket Notepads could be true swim lane as the lanes are there to constrict the free form writing but it’s not really as expansive and is closer to a desktop web homepage where the lanes are only 4.
It gets even more confusing as Sticky Notes and Mapping software come into play as there are mapping software that can be made to work like swim lanes via becoming more of a diagonal outliner.
Posted by Bernhard
Sep 22, 2011 at 04:43 PM
Foolness wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>The screenshot is a bit vague. Is the vertical axis unlimited? There are
>some programs like Basket Notepads that only have 4 columns maximum.
>
The number of columns depends on the version: 4 columns for the Pro and 40 for the Enterprise version.
Thanks, I will look into Basket Notepads to see if the blocks in the colums can be horizontally aligned.
Bernhard
Posted by Bernhard
Sep 22, 2011 at 04:48 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Bernhard.
>
>You may want to take a look at Storylines, which is part of the Writer’s
>Cafe suite (http://www.writerscafe.co.uk).
>
Storylines lookes interesting, though from the screenshots it seems that screen estate for each block is very limited. I will try the demo. It’s very nice that Storylines is cross-platform. Thanks!
Bernhard
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 22, 2011 at 09:45 PM
From the images and my limited comprehension of German, Normfall Manager’s swimlanes approach looks quite similar to the ‘corkboard’ feature encountered in several programs aimed at writers, like Writer’s Cafe. Other examples: Outline4D http://www.screenplay.com/p-77-outline-4d.aspx and http://www.learnoutline4d.com/ Supernotecard http://www.mindola.com/supernotecard/ and more recently Writing Outliner http://writingoutliner.com/
The advantage of Normfall Manager is that there are also other ways to organise the material, that work complementarily to the swimlanes. So the question is whether the swimlanes are enough.