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Posted by Gary Carson
Apr 14, 2012 at 08:58 PM
Have you tried changing the directory settings under Windows to “show all files?” Maybe Windows thinks the outline is some kind of system file and is automatically hiding it. Also, when you’re in VM, can you copy the outline file to a thumb drive? Maybe you could get it over to Windows that way. Another thing: I’ve never used VM, but if the Windows folder you’re using is set to show all files and the file isn’t there, maybe the VM folder is actually located somewhere else (even though it appears to have the same name). Have you tried searching your entire hard drive for the file?
Just out of curiosity, what can Grandview do that other outliners can’t do? I’m just asking because I’ve never used Grandview before.
Posted by Gary Carson
Apr 14, 2012 at 09:05 PM
Don’t you have to set up some kind of shared folder in VM in order to transfer files between VM and Windows?
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Gary Carson wrote:
>Just out of
>curiosity, what can Grandview do that other outliners can’t do? I’m just asking
>because I’ve never used Grandview before.
I think that this post by Steve Z. http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/grandview/ sums it up very nicely, and I say this as someone who never actually experienced GrandView for himself.
In brief: one-pane outliner with switchable inline view of detail text, hoisting, categories/filtering/metadata, dates/priority for task management, all in one well integrated package.
Posted by Dakin Ferris
Oct 1, 2013 at 12:28 AM
I can’t remember for sure, but I think it was Grandview that I loved as an outliner/PIM (and like another person posting her replaced it with ECCO).
But if Grandview is the software I am remembering correctly, I just found a web-based outliner that comes as close to Grandview as anything I’ve found. (A friend sent me the link today: http://www.WorkFlowy.com )
I don’t think I am going to use it because I pretty much do everything in Evernote these days, but I sure wish Evernote’s outlining functioniality work like this (or Grandview).
Posted by rowby
Nov 14, 2015 at 03:32 AM
It’s 2015 and I still miss Grandview. It’s been so long since I used it back in the DOS days I don’t even remember its exact functions, but it sure worked great.
I remembe rafter Symantic bought it and then stopped publishing it, burying it, I was at a computer store, where Symantic was selling its security software. I good naturally pleaded with the people in the Symantic booth to revive Grandview. They were pleasant about it—but were clearly now in the security business and had no interest in supporting a non-security software.
Ah, Gradview, RIP, but maybe some programmer will take up the project and recreate it for WIndows 7 and maybe even an app…..
Yes, I tried ECCO for awhile but ECCO was not Grandview.
Rowby