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Swift To-Do List is maturing nicely...
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 7, 2014 at 12:37 PM
Swift To-Do List has been around for a long time, enthusiastically marketed by its developer. It’s a nice program, hitherto limited by being confined to Windows only. But that’s not necessarily bad - the latest version (9) has added some great features, including support for tables and spreadsheets (not unlike AM-Notes, but rather smarter). It’s turning into a very powerful two-pane outliner.
And the latest features update includes a teasing hint that iOS and Android apps are imminent. Now that would make it highly desirable!
More details: http://www.dextronet.com/swift-to-do-list-software/features
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Hilary
Feb 11, 2014 at 10:18 AM
I’ve been lurking round here for about a year (thank you), but just joined to post this. No affiliation to Dextronet at all, but I do really like their software. It strikes me as very well designed - features tend to do what I want and expect them to do first time, so I find it very easy and natural to use. Also, the tech support is prompt, human and intelligent (you know, as opposed to the cut-and-paste-robot variety), and they’re responsive to suggestions.
I’ve not seriously thought of using it for information management - I have UltraRecall, and I’ve got very fond of having items with multiple parents - couldn’t do without that.
Only snag I have is with backing up the database. They’re currently working on its inbuilt cloud synch for the latest version. It also can’t be backed up when the file is open, and getting the backup software (Syncback) to force the program to close doesn’t free up the file for backing up either - it has to be closed from within the program. So as far as I can see, backup can’t currently be automated. Well… I can always add a reminder…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 12, 2014 at 02:50 PM
I’ve always liked it, I must say, but been put off by the lack of cross-platform compatibility. What you say about sync and backup is also interesting.
But it appears a Big Step Forward is imminent. And given the responsiveness of the developer, I’m hoping for good things!
Posted by 22111
Feb 14, 2014 at 11:48 PM
THE CANCER INDUSTRY VS. THE SW INDUSTRY
“given the responsiveness of the developer”...
Well, there’s sometimes sort of pseudo-responsiveness, but let’s discuss this…
“And the latest features update includes a teasing hint that iOS and Android apps are imminent. Now that would make it highly desirable!”
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In journals, there’s often an “editorial”, i.e. a page where the editor-in-chief spreads his views of things…
Most of the time, I don’t read those, and that’s why it’s been just today that I had a furtive look into Christof Windeck’s c’t editorial in issue 21/2013, where he writes,
“Den viel zu früh verstorbenen Steve Jobs bewundere ich (...)”,
which in English means he admires Steve Jobs, and he considers Jobs to be gone much too early.
Well, my conception is different, and I said so upon his death, calling him “that corpse from Cupertino” in the UR forum; I got NOT censored upon this, and that’s exactly why I, on every possible occasion, tell people about the BENEFITS of UR, notwithstanding the fact that I had (even then) transferred my stuff into a very special set up of AO and AHK; Kyle isn’t “responsive”, but he’s not a censor, and anytime he’ll be willing to “listen”, it will not come to his harm.
Jobs was the eponym of an asshole (he’s got a “natural daughter”, and his M of that “affair” alone makes him despicable forever), and he said so himself - both are facts.
Then, Jobs did NEVER EVER do ANYTHING NEW (and people who think otherwise, bec/of his “Mac”, are just poorly informed) - he made his fortune from stealing (and then, very minor adaptions, and from hiring good product designers), exclusively.
The above is not OT, in light of the above citation. SINCE:
Now look, excuse me: Also in the medical industry, some people say cancer isn’t exterminated bec. too many high-paid professionals make their splendid living out of - unsuccessfully - treating cancer; I cannot speak for the possible truth in this.
BUT…
It seems obvious that some Jobs, or anybody else, could have made it possible to get us a Win slate with 14 hours running time AND with an 800 g weight - by financing the developments necessary for that: Intel processor amendments.
By lack of this, we’ve being served, for that last 5 years of so, with TOTAL SHIT, with “Android”, which, had the relevant people in the “industry” done “their work”, would never have been “necessary” to begin with.
So all this endless manpower waste to “adopt” applics to other OS’s is an incredible shame (and if you think the Win system is rubbish to begin with, ok, but then we should have been given the ultimate alternative, on ALL platforms, years ago, and done away with Win) - it totally blocks developers’ availability for THINKING, for sw breakthroughs:
Employing ace developers with mechanical “transition work”, instead of having them overcome the limitations of the human mind - it’s outrageous.
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Re Swift-To-Do.
The developers markets his main product as a (totally overpriced) to-do sw, BUT as I see it, it also could be a very valuable “outliner”, as we discuss IM sw here (and together with clones), and in this respect, it would not be overpriced at all.
On the other hand, the developer markets some sort of a (totally overpriced) outliner but which seems to be nothing more than a “sub-product” of the above one, which he calls “Tree Notes” (both products were on sale on bits recently). Now, Tree Notes is completely worthless, but Swift-To-Do is not.
Which makes me wonder if you really could use Swift-To-Do with, say, 100,000 items, and what would be the, say, “difference to UR”, then.
Thus, if somebody out there, ever, tried to put it to heavy duty outliner use, please speak out! ;-)
Posted by 22111
Feb 15, 2014 at 12:26 AM
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I’m sorry, my point (which I had left out) had been that instead of propagating the unnecessary and harmful divergation of IO’s, Jobs should have employed 1 billion of his 150 billion or so into developement of a “Mac slate”, by thus having overcome Win predominance altogether, AND having spared all of us these endless, fruitless searches for “compatibility”. Btw, my “smart phones” are Nokia Communicators (which I had adopted very early on, together with the appropriate sw, so I’m speaking from experience here, even though I have always refused to adopt cloud solutions).