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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 24, 2011 at 09:33 PM
JBfrom wrote:
>How are there not any
>other Org-mode users on this forum? Carsten must suck them all over to his place, never
>to stray… or even fantasize.
A probable answer is the learning curve; I think someone who tried it out recently wrote that he spent more time memorising keystrokes than focusing on the actual work.
InfoQube can also do most—probably all- of the things mentioned here too, and much more, including number crunching. Yet two years after registering the software I haven’t brought myself to actually learn it, though I know well it will be worth it. Power comes at a cost.
Posted by floyd
Oct 24, 2011 at 10:40 PM
JBfrom wrote:
>How are there not any
>other Org-mode users on this forum? Carsten must suck them all over to his place, never
>to stray… or even fantasize.
Emacs. User Experience. Need we say anything more :).
While developers are a huge subset of what might be considered a “market” for users needing outlining capabilities, the GrandViews of the world never targeted developers or refined capabilities for them. It was a much broader audience that needed a much different user experience. Well, one like GrandView. :).
Peace
F
Posted by JBfrom
Oct 25, 2011 at 02:18 AM
True that. Still, I’m surprised there isn’t at least one other person.
I’m pretty sure Xah Lee’s distro takes care of most of the keybind problem. I should beef up my Emacs tutorial section.
Aha, but does InfoQube have a fully integrated spreadsheet app? *Infinite power!*, screams the villain, right before his head explodes.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 25, 2011 at 03:33 AM
JBfrom wrote:
>Aha, but does InfoQube have a fully integrated spreadsheet app?
Good question ! No is the answer.
The concept behind IQ is not to replace standard apps (MSWord, Excel, etc). If the best tool is a spreadsheet, then use a spreadsheet. IQ does shows the information as a grid (+1 for IQ vs Excel since it is a tree-grid), you can define equations and you can do some formatting. But Excel is much more free-form. Each cell can have any equation.
IQ can be seen as a cross between Excel and Access (but this is an imperfect picture of course)
In IQ, equations are defined at the field level (i.e. grid columns) and are enforced at the database level (in Excel, it is done at the presentation level: the grid)
HTH !
Pierre
IQ Designer
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 25, 2011 at 05:38 AM
JBfrom wrote:
>True that. Still, I’m surprised there isn’t at least one other person.
Well actually, I think there is:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/986/0/org-mode-for-gtd
That said, you should keep in mind that more people frequent this forum than actually write in it. When such ‘spectators’ eventually do write, they often provide very fresh approaches; i.e. more than just new apps, I mean new viewpoints about using the apps. So I wouldn’t take what’s already written—and there’s a damn lot- as completely representative of what is actually happening.
>Aha, but does InfoQube have a fully integrated
>spreadsheet app?
And org-mode does? Truthfully, it still wouldn’t tempt me, but I’m just wondering. I like the text screen mode for writing, but I wouldn’t want to go back to visicalc.