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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 21, 2018 at 08:42 PM
Ken wrote:
> (...) and assumed that it was a reminder about the Kanban feature in IQ
Hi Ken,
That’s exactly what it was !
One doesn’t immediately associate “outliner software” with Kanban… That is, if they both try to solve information management needs, the approach is very different
As you know, IQ is more than “just” an outliner (be it 1-pane, 2-pane or 3-pane)
Its Kanban features are quite new and emerged from (1) Dashboards and (2) improvements in drag-drop
Pierre
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 22, 2018 at 07:40 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>did you know that InfoQube can easily be configured to be an effective
>Kanban board ?
I had no idea about this (though you may have mentioned it here in the past).
This made me think of a comment I had read many many years ago by Steve Z. on Zoot; it was something in the sense that “whatever I think could be done, Zoot has already a way of doing”, and had made me look further into Zoot and eventually purchase it. I did a quick search and found a similar point, again from Steve Z.:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/archives/viewt/3621
“every day it seems I learn some new feature that makes me marvel at how much thought Tom Davis put into his program.”
Well, I think that the same can be said nowadays for Pierre and InfoQube!
Posted by satis
Dec 23, 2018 at 07:08 PM
Andy Brice wrote:
> Hyper Plan allows you to:
>
>-group tasks into swim lanes and columns
>-colour-code cards (e.g. red=high priority)
>-filter cards (e.g. hide all cards except those for project 1)
>-switch ‘views’ so you can easily switch between different
>layouts/filters etc
>
>It sounds like a fairly good fit for what you are trying to do.
>
>It is desktop-based (Windows or Mac), but you can share a plan between
>multiple computers using DropBox or similar.
>
>There is a free trial:
>https://www.hyperplan.com/download.html
Andy, I bought a license for HyperPlan Home for my Mac and just started playing with some of the built-in sample files. I’m intrigued!
A couple of notes:
• In Cards view I can’t figure out how to use my trackpad to scroll - in Cards the standard 2-finger scroll gesture is linked to Zoom in/out and I’m having to put my arrow on the scrollbar and manually scroll. This does not happen in any of the other views (eg Charts, Table, Notes). Is there a setting to fix that?
• macOS dev guidelines have always been (unlike for Windows) for an app to remain open even when the last window is closed; I was a bit shocked when the app quit when I closed the ‘Wedding Plan’ file. (And there’s no standard Command-W to close any windows; I had to manually click the close-window button.)
* When I relaunched the app I got a little pop-up telling me I was using the latest version. Um, I didn’t ask! ;-)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 27, 2018 at 08:27 PM
Speaking of which, can anyone suggest a good cork board software? I am on Windows (mainly) and Linux. A web service could do as well, but offline is preferable.
The topic has been touched upon here in the past, but examples centred mainly on organising verbal concepts on a virtual board. I would need to include at least images too—and ideally other multimedia.
washere wrote:
>
>That free fliating mode would be the classic Visual/White/Cork Board of
>index cards a.k.a. Kanban everyone knows by sight and will dive in
>intuitively.
Posted by Amontillado
Dec 28, 2018 at 01:41 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Speaking of which, can anyone suggest a good cork board software? I am
>on Windows (mainly) and Linux. A web service could do as well, but
>offline is preferable.
This seems to be a gap in current offerings. Two usual suspects by Literature and Latte are about all I’ve found.
Scrivener includes a corkboard feature with some nice sorting features.
Scapple, also by https://www.literatureandlatte.com, is an interesting study in minimalism. It doesn’t look like it does much, but it ends up doing a pretty good job.
Mind maps work best for me when they are used to inventory topics into categories. Scapple is much better for organizing the components of a story, at least in my use. For 15 bucks, it’s a lot of bang for the money. My favorite feature is magnetic shapes. You can create little sub-maps that move as a unit, for example.
Other than those two, I haven’t found a simple corkboard utility.
Now that I think of it, and of no use to you on Windows or Linux, Apple Numbers supports text boxes. You could have a bunch of text boxes on a canvas for your corkboard. Numbers will show a timeline view of events, so you could have a timeline chart on your corkboard, too. Libre Office Calc supports text boxes, but the Numbers concept of separate objects on a canvas may have an edge - but if you turned off the Calc grid and just used text boxes, you might be able to achieve the effect you’re looking for.