Hi,
We will be entering the beta cycle for SheetPlanner 1.1 in 2-3 weeks.
Those of you wishing to participate in the beta cycle, please let me know.

Upcoming Features in 1.1 are:
A symbol column type containing multiple symbols such as checkboxes, stars, Eisenhower quadrants and so on. All of which can be filtered on
A Progress column type where a user enters a percentage completion that is reflected in the column and in the timeline bar and can be filtered on
Filter enhancements
Keyboard enhancements
Auto enter cell values
Timeline enhancements
Dependencies
Print timeline view
Performance optimizations

These are the cliff notes. The beta will contain extensive release notes as there is a lot of depth to these features.

Thanks,
Peter

All,
I should mention to let me know at support@sheetplanner.com
Thanks,
Peter


SheetPlanner wrote:

Hi,
We will be entering the beta cycle for SheetPlanner 1.1 in 2-3 weeks.
Those of you wishing to participate in the beta cycle, please let me
know.

Upcoming Features in 1.1 are:
A symbol column type containing multiple symbols such as checkboxes,
stars, Eisenhower quadrants and so on. All of which can be filtered on
A Progress column type where a user enters a percentage completion that
is reflected in the column and in the timeline bar and can be filtered
on
Filter enhancements
Keyboard enhancements
Auto enter cell values
Timeline enhancements
Dependencies
Print timeline view
Performance optimizations

These are the cliff notes. The beta will contain extensive release notes
as there is a lot of depth to these features.

Thanks,
Peter

All,
We plan on pushing out a SheetPlanner 1.1 beta towards the end of next week and am looking for testers.
If anyone is interested in testing the beta, please let me know. Its a big release with lots of great features.
Thanks,
Peter


SheetPlanner wrote:

All,
I should mention to let me know at support@sheetplanner.com
Thanks,
Peter


SheetPlanner wrote:
Hi,
>We will be entering the beta cycle for SheetPlanner 1.1 in 2-3 weeks.
>Those of you wishing to participate in the beta cycle, please let me
>know.
>
>Upcoming Features in 1.1 are:
>A symbol column type containing multiple symbols such as checkboxes,
>stars, Eisenhower quadrants and so on. All of which can be filtered on
>A Progress column type where a user enters a percentage completion that
>is reflected in the column and in the timeline bar and can be filtered
>on
>Filter enhancements
>Keyboard enhancements
>Auto enter cell values
>Timeline enhancements
>Dependencies
>Print timeline view
>Performance optimizations
>
>These are the cliff notes. The beta will contain extensive release
notes
>as there is a lot of depth to these features.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
>

Looks nice!

Are projects kept in files, or in one in-app database?

I’m rather hooked on OmniFocus, but would like an organizer that let me set up todo lists in separate files. Sheet planner is obviously more than just a todo list, but looks very intuitive.

Separate files. I'm finding SP quite useful as an initial planning tool. Haven't yet go to the point of using it as a day-to-day task manager

Amontillado wrote:

Looks nice!

Are projects kept in files, or in one in-app database?

I’m rather hooked on OmniFocus, but would like an organizer that
let me set up todo lists in separate files. Sheet planner is obviously
more than just a todo list, but looks very intuitive.

I think I'm going to get a copy of Sheetplanner. I haven't looked at the price, yet, but that's just my keen skills at avoiding impulse purchasing.

First, I convince myself something is worth having, no matter the price. This constitutes a somewhat manic cooling off period, then I'm always pleasantly surprised at the bargain I find. I am still a neophyte in this method. My wife is a master at it.

Hopefully, it's not a subscription thing.

OmniFocus would be hard to replace, but I want an organizational tool that keeps stuff in separate files. I could use folders in OmniFocus, that would work. Some projects get mulled and then discarded. I'd like to have all my notes and to-dos in one bucket (Devonthink or just a folder) so I can trash the whole sorry mess in one stroke.

Archiving is better that way, too, because I don't have to look at old stuff forever. OmniFocus is great, but it's transient and repetitive stuff.

The other reasons for getting Sheetplanner are the developer is in Virginia. My wife grew up near Howardsville. Since Howardsville is best thought of as a singularity rather than a domain, "near" is a better description than "in." It's a wonderful area. If my wife questions yet another to-do list purchase, I'll tell her it's because it reminds me of her. Yeah, that'll work...

The other reason is because the developer posted here. The tone of this place is nice, and developers that have an eye for the kind of folks that hang out here can't be all bad.

To the app store for me, I believe.

Hi Amontillado.

SheetPlanner is document based, so you have a separate document for each outline.

In the future we plan on allowing for document bundles where multiple outlines can exist in the same document and can be navigated to via a sidebar with folders.

While everything we are adding in version 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 are free upgrades to the current shipping version, I am not certain that this feature (multiple outlines in the same document) will be in the 1.X series of releases. We may do a pro version or a 2.0 release but thats all some ways off. I just wanted to state that in the interest of full disclosure.

Thanks,
Peter


Amontillado wrote:

Looks nice!

Are projects kept in files, or in one in-app database?

I’m rather hooked on OmniFocus, but would like an organizer that
let me set up todo lists in separate files. Sheet planner is obviously
more than just a todo list, but looks very intuitive.

Hi Amontillado,

We look forward to your purchase of SheetPlanner. I think you will love it. We have a great roadmap and are just about to go into the 1.1 beta cycle.

SheetPlanner 1.0 is not a subscription, its a one time purchase.

Feel free to contact us at support@sheetplanner.com if you have any questions.
Regards,
Peter


Amontillado wrote:

I think I'm going to get a copy of Sheetplanner. I haven't looked at the
price, yet, but that's just my keen skills at avoiding impulse
purchasing.

First, I convince myself something is worth having, no matter the price.
This constitutes a somewhat manic cooling off period, then I'm always
pleasantly surprised at the bargain I find. I am still a neophyte in
this method. My wife is a master at it.

Hopefully, it's not a subscription thing.

OmniFocus would be hard to replace, but I want an organizational tool
that keeps stuff in separate files. I could use folders in OmniFocus,
that would work. Some projects get mulled and then discarded. I'd like
to have all my notes and to-dos in one bucket (Devonthink or just a
folder) so I can trash the whole sorry mess in one stroke.

Archiving is better that way, too, because I don't have to look at old
stuff forever. OmniFocus is great, but it's transient and repetitive
stuff.

The other reasons for getting Sheetplanner are the developer is in
Virginia. My wife grew up near Howardsville. Since Howardsville is best
thought of as a singularity rather than a domain, "near" is a better
description than "in." It's a wonderful area. If my wife questions yet
another to-do list purchase, I'll tell her it's because it reminds me of
her. Yeah, that'll work...

The other reason is because the developer posted here. The tone of this
place is nice, and developers that have an eye for the kind of folks
that hang out here can't be all bad.

To the app store for me, I believe.

Also, he's very responsive to questions, via mail, on Facebook and via the App Store.

Amontillado wrote:

The other reason is because the developer posted here. The tone of this
place is nice, and developers that have an eye for the kind of folks
that hang out here can't be all bad.

To the app store for me, I believe.

Thanks Nick.
Peter

NickG wrote:

Also, he's very responsive to questions, via mail, on Facebook and via
the App Store.

Amontillado wrote:

>
>The other reason is because the developer posted here. The tone of this
>place is nice, and developers that have an eye for the kind of folks
>that hang out here can't be all bad.
>
>To the app store for me, I believe.

What follows is in the nature of musing, prompted by SheetPlanner.

Having briefly tried the application, I do like the design of SheetPlanner's UI, and its general approach to task management of a particular kind. I especially like what is I guess its USP - its combination of task management with a simplified Gantt chart. It does enable one to foresee and deal with "lumps" in one's diary, and potential delays in one's medium- and long-term projects.

There are very few rivals in this niche, as far as I know: Pagico is one, but I know of no others unless you move upscale to the complexity and cost of project managers such as, in the Mac world, OmniPlan or Merlin.

But I'd like to use such a Gantt-chart task manager as SheetPlanner just for projects that need it, like building a shed or writing a book. I don't want to clutter it up with reminders to check out a new movie that's just been released, or to remember my sister's birthday. I'd like to keep all those, plus the top-level plans for my shed-building and book-writing, in a "trusted" (©David Allen!) "master" system such as OmniFocus (which also has several other advantages such as being available on my iPhone). And then I'd like to export individual projects for detailed monitoring in, say, SheetPlanner, as required.

What this means is that I wish these task managers were more inter-operable. Actually, SheetPlanner is I think pretty good, accepting imports IIRC in both csv and OPML formats. But I'm not sure how I'd easily, without a fuss, get individual projects out of, say, OmniFocus. It's hard enough to get them out of OmniFocus into OmniPlan (as I've banged on about previously here!).

Of course, I think I know why this is so. I suspect that detailed inter-operability is not straightforward, and in any case the developers of task managers want to "keep their gardens walled". But one can hope.

Hi Hugh.

Its too early in the maturity of the product for us to have any plans on how we might integrate with task management systems but its something that we will consider down the line. I really wish there was a standard like publish and subscribe from the old Mac classic days that we could easily adopt.

One thing we are looking at is the ability to share a filtered list with the reminders app on the Mac. This would allow you to track projects in SheetPlanner and get access to Project tasks inside of Reminders. We dont formally have this in the roadmap yet, but its something we are looking at.

Finally, the longer term plan (perhaps not in the 1.x product) is for a user to have multiple outlines/projects in the same document, navigable via a folder structure in a sidebar. That way you could keep all your plans together along with a simple to do list.

For me, a lot of the motivation in building SheetPlanner was to get all sorts of information into the one place.
Plans, taks lists, passwords, hikes I want to take, places I want to visit, lists of books I want to read and so on.

Over time you will see the 'Personal Information Management' side of Sheetplanner evolve.

How nice would it be to view the columns in a form and what use cases would that provide for? ;)

Feel free to contact us at support@sheetplanner.com if you wish to correspond directly.
Thanks,
Peter


Hugh wrote:

What follows is in the nature of musing, prompted by SheetPlanner.

Having briefly tried the application, I do like the design of
SheetPlanner's UI, and its general approach to task management of a
particular kind. I especially like what is I guess its USP - its
combination of task management with a simplified Gantt chart. It does
enable one to foresee and deal with "lumps" in one's diary, and
potential delays in one's medium- and long-term projects.

There are very few rivals in this niche, as far as I know: Pagico is
one, but I know of no others unless you move upscale to the complexity
and cost of project managers such as, in the Mac world, OmniPlan or
Merlin.

But I'd like to use such a Gantt-chart task manager as SheetPlanner just
for projects that need it, like building a shed or writing a book. I
don't want to clutter it up with reminders to check out a new movie
that's just been released, or to remember my sister's birthday. I'd like
to keep all those, plus the top-level plans for my shed-building and
book-writing, in a "trusted" (©David Allen!) "master" system such
as OmniFocus (which also has several other advantages such as being
available on my iPhone). And then I'd like to export individual projects
for detailed monitoring in, say, SheetPlanner, as required.

What this means is that I wish these task managers were more
inter-operable. Actually, SheetPlanner is I think pretty good, accepting
imports IIRC in both csv and OPML formats. But I'm not sure how I'd
easily, without a fuss, get individual projects out of, say, OmniFocus.
It's hard enough to get them out of OmniFocus into OmniPlan (as I've
banged on about previously here!).

Of course, I think I know why this is so. I suspect that detailed
inter-operability is not straightforward, and in any case the developers
of task managers want to "keep their gardens walled". But one can hope.

Thanks for the response, Peter.

All,
SheetPlanner 1.1 beta 2 will arrive go out on April 4th. There will be a lot of nice improvements in beta 2 as we have made some significant changes around dropdown menu interaction with rows that have been requested for a long time by a number of users.

A number of users on this board have contributed immensely to helping us make a better product via their feedback from the beta tests.

As before, if anyone would like to participate in the beta, please let us know at support@sheetplanner.com

Thank you.
Peter


SheetPlanner wrote:

Hi,
We will be entering the beta cycle for SheetPlanner 1.1 in 2-3 weeks.
Those of you wishing to participate in the beta cycle, please let me
know.

Upcoming Features in 1.1 are:
A symbol column type containing multiple symbols such as checkboxes,
stars, Eisenhower quadrants and so on. All of which can be filtered on
A Progress column type where a user enters a percentage completion that
is reflected in the column and in the timeline bar and can be filtered
on
Filter enhancements
Keyboard enhancements
Auto enter cell values
Timeline enhancements
Dependencies
Print timeline view
Performance optimizations

These are the cliff notes. The beta will contain extensive release notes
as there is a lot of depth to these features.

Thanks,
Peter

All,
An update on SheetPlanner 1.1.

Beta 6 went out to a small group of testers last week.

Beta 7 will go out next week.

We expect b7 or b8 to be release candidate and so I expect we will be releasing 1.1 to the Mac App Store for approval in the next 2 weeks.

It's a huge release. 1.2 which we will start work on after WWDC will be an incredible update also.

We are working on a new website and will have a full suite of tutorial videos posted after 1.2 ships.

Thanks for your support.
Peter

All,
SheetPlanner 1.1 is now complete. Given that WWDC is coming up soon and that we have some work to do rebuilding the SP website and help materials, we are planning on launching the week of June 17th.
Regards,
Peter

SheetPlanner wrote:

All,
An update on SheetPlanner 1.1.

Beta 6 went out to a small group of testers last week.

Beta 7 will go out next week.

We expect b7 or b8 to be release candidate and so I expect we will be
releasing 1.1 to the Mac App Store for approval in the next 2 weeks.

It's a huge release. 1.2 which we will start work on after WWDC will be
an incredible update also.

We are working on a new website and will have a full suite of tutorial
videos posted after 1.2 ships.

Thanks for your support.
Peter

All,
We are finally submitting SheetPlanner 1.1 to Apple on Monday.
It's a big release with lots of great features:

- Added the ability to connect rows to establish a dependency.
- Dependencies are displayed via arrows in the Timeline, and new optional columns in the Outline.
- A red vertical line now marks the current date & time in the Timeline.
- Any Date column can now be included in the Timeline.
- New Symbol column type, including checkbox, flag, star, color icons, bullet journaling, Eisenhower quadrants, 5 stars, etc.
- New Progress column type, displayed as a progress bar, mini pie chart, or percentage.
- Auto-enter cell values with a default value, from the row above, today, formatted serial number, and more.
- Outline view menu improvements.
- Filter improvements, including better search for dates, time intervals, note text, and more.
- Printing the Timeline is now supported, and printing the Outline is improved.
- Plus numerous other improvements; see the website for details.

Hopefully it won't take too long for Apple to approve it and make it available in the Mac App Store.
Thanks,
Peter

Good work - thanks

All,
SheetPlanner 1.1 is now available at the Mac App Store.

Those of you that have already downloaded it and/or purchased it can get the free update through the normal update process via the Mac App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sheetplanner/id1438761088?mt=12

Work begins on 1.2 now.

Thanks,
Peter