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Posted by Andy Brice
Apr 21, 2020 at 04:50 PM
Excel is the main competitor to just about every software product I have ever written, including Hyper Plan.
Posted by jaslar
Apr 22, 2020 at 02:48 AM
I see your point. After I studied the first link I sent about using Excel, I see that it was actually pretty sophisticated. Then I poked around with Google Sheets, which also has checkboxes and grouping (the spreadsheet word for folding). LibreOffice Calc does not have grouping, which is interesting.
Years ago, I designed a pretty robust task management system using the Appleworks database module, a sort of pared down File Maker Pro. Spreadsheets can provide a lot of the same functionality. But I have to say that something like AirTable is easier to use than Excel.
Posted by Hugh
Apr 22, 2020 at 07:54 AM
Andy Brice wrote:
Excel is the main competitor to just about every software product I have
>ever written, including Hyper Plan.
Excel is a wonderful programme. Too huge for some, yes, ungainly sometimes, less nifty than Numbers, but still wonderful. Working mostly in sentences not calculations, I wouldn’t - you might think - have much use for it. But I do. Leaving aside the more familiar terrain of personal financial records and planning, for a time I outlined longform pieces in Excel, factual and fictional, listed locations and characters, even crudely timelined. I still keep records in Excel of versions, word counts, page revisions and work durations, and roughly calculate productivity.
I think I read somewhere that someone had managed to write a novel in Excel, but I never managed to track the source of that report down.
Posted by Andy Brice
Apr 22, 2020 at 08:05 AM
Excel is a very impressive piece of software. You can do just about anything in Excel, even create art:
https://mymodernmet.com/excel-art/
It is not necessarily the best tool for the job though. ;0)
Posted by mseliger
Apr 22, 2020 at 10:04 AM
jaslar wrote:
> LibreOffice Calc does not have grouping, which is interesting.
LibreOffice Calc has also a grouping feature at least in version 6.4.0.3 (but perhaps also in former versions) (Menu Data | Group and Outline).