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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 2, 2013 at 02:24 PM
Angela West wrote:
>Please contact us via Live Chat on working hours (Monday to Friday 8am
>to 6pm GMT) and we will try to help you to unlock this modem.
>
>i will do that
Angela, your suggestion for a project management software elsewhere in the forum seemed well placed, but your two recent rather irrelevant posts make me wonder if you are just trying to automatically create backlinks pointing to that site.
A Google search for “angela west app.intellobuild.com” brings up many many similar postings, including the following info http://www.topdatum.com/Construction/Material-handling/2391-A-Web-Based-Construction-Management-Software.html according to which “Angela West is a public relations executive for GamePlan. GamePlan develops, sells and supports Construction project management software for architecture, engineering and Web Based Construction Management Software firms worldwide.”
I personally have no problem with developers informing us about their product at this forum, as long as they clarify their own involvement with it, and don’t do it in a repeated / spammy fashion.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 2, 2013 at 03:57 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>your two recent rather irrelevant
>posts make me wonder if you are just trying to automatically create
>backlinks pointing to that site.
This does look like “black hat SEO.” I will certainly not try a product that is being promoted in this way, especially on a forum like this one.
I’d suggest to delete these links from the forum.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 2, 2013 at 06:23 PM
Seconded.
Gameplan is a perfectly legitimate piece of software, which makes this kind of spamming even more irritating. Simply because it’s bloody rude!
Posted by Garland Coulson
Jul 3, 2013 at 05:20 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
It’s been an old dream of mine to find a software that could be used as
>a dashboard for everything, or if not for everything, then at least for
>the most important writing projects. Mainly I want to be able to
>organise and re-organise links to files on my drive that pertain to
>specific projects.
>
>The problem with everything I tried is that a) after a while a single
>page gets too crowded or b) it is too convoluted to link to files and
>rearrange items, or c) it is visually difficult to consume.
>
>So far I tried WhizFolders, Planz, “hubs” in SmartDraw 2012,
>ConnectedText, VUE, and CmapTools.
>
>The main criteria would be:
>- light enough for it to start quickly (I’d want to have it open
>automatically at Windows start-up and keep it open);
>- drag and drop of any file from file explorer creates a link to the
>file (ideally with an icon of the app and the file name);
>- easy to rearrange, collapse, zoom in and out of branches.
>- easy to duplicate branches.
>- alternative visualisations (e.g. outline, mind map).
>- internal linking between items;
>- ability to add additional icons, colour-coding, highlighting.
>
>I’ve just started using Freeplane for this today, and it seems to tick a
>lot of the boxes above. It’s a bit slow to start, doesn’t add the file
>icons, and you can’t zoom (hoist), but can do all the others. Besides
>the drag and drop of file links it can also link directly to internal
>ConnectedText (and other) documents, which is great. But it’s early
>days, as I don’t know how easy it will be to navigate once it has over a
>hundred links.
>
>Any other suggestions for such a dashboard software?
A weird possibility occurred to me since I was testing it for managing my projects but ToDoList from Abstract Spoon will do some of this.
It is not as visual of an interface, but you can create tasks and nested tasks that link to files and web sites and you can customize which columns show up. Very easy to view by a certain category and it works very fast for me.
1. Light: Yes
2. Drag and Drop: Yes
3. Rearrange, collapse and zoom: Yes
4. Easy to duplicate branches: Not really branches, but yes they can be copied
5. Alternate visualizations: No, just a minimalist table interface
6. Link between items: Yes, with dependencies
7. Additional icons, colour coding, highlighting: Not really - Can set different font colours
Other things that might be useful to filter:
1. tags
2. categories
3. status
4. other columns like allocated to, versoin, external ID could all be used as extra controls
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 3, 2013 at 09:20 AM
Actually, that’s a rather brilliant idea. I suppose in principle it’s what an organisational app should be about.