Andy Brice

Question About Kanban Boards 12/30/2018

@Jan S. wrote: >I have a honest and serious (but critical) question about HyperPlan: Why >is it so ugly? This seems to be a major difference to other >todo/planning tools -- especially those that ar...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/21/2018

Also I should point out that Hyper Plan does use Windows file locking when the plan is stored in a Windows network share. So 2 people can't change it at the same time. It is more crude than full serve...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/21/2018

washere wrote: I think a browser based project for Hyper Plan would take a huge chunk >of time (ie Andy's money in reality). Further, the browsers would crash >on the main strength and power of HP, l...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/20/2018

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >What you suggest --a client server version of Hyperplan if I understand >it correctly-- would be a step in the right direction. We would >definitely need remote access to ...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/20/2018

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: >As noted in the past, I believe that Hyperplan would greatly expand its >market if it had a web version. What aspect of moving it to the web do you think would broaden i...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/19/2018

@washere It is definitely something I would like to do for v3. Along with various other improvements. BTW The best way to become a millionaire writing productivity software is to start off as a bil...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/19/2018

washere wrote: >If anyone does a good job of a free floating board for desktop, >offline for privacy primarily, they will brand the niche genre for >themselves and will be multi millionaires. Do yo...

Question About Kanban Boards 12/18/2018

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 ca...

MaxThink: Another one-pane outliner bites the dust 11/26/2018

Productivity apps seems to have a mortality rate comparable to first world war pilots. ;0) -- Andy Brice http://www.hyperplan.com

Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? 9/8/2018

Thought this might of interest to some: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731 -- Andy Brice https://www.hyperplan.com

Evernote in trouble? 9/5/2018

Has EverNote ever not been in trouble? ;0) Freemium is a difficult strategy to get right. Give people too little for free and they won't use it. Give people too much for free and they won't upgrade. ...

Tinderbox / content visualization software for windows? 8/29/2018

Paul Korm wrote: @Andy Brice -- nice thought, but Hyperplan doesn't really work well for >me with note taking and content or context mapping. It doesn't fit >into the category of software discuss...

Tinderbox / content visualization software for windows? 8/28/2018

It may be worth looking at Hyper Plan. It has Windows and Mac versions. The Professional edition allows you to make any number of types of connections between cards. You can automatically layout cards...

"Summerfest" Mac Software Sale 6/26/2018

Pricing is a complicated subject on which much can be said. But it is usually better for the vendor not to price at the low end of your market: -Price is a signal. A low price implies that your produ...

More on Linux (so okay, not strictly relevant to outlining - perhaps) 5/13/2018

Alexander Deliyannis wrote: Also, do bear in mind that in Linux the culture of Open Source and Free >(as in speech but also as in beer) is much stronger than in Windows and >Mac. I don't plan on r...

More on Linux (so okay, not strictly relevant to outlining - perhaps) 5/10/2018

I recently surveyed Hyper Plan users to ask what future features they wanted. A Linux port scored rather poorly. But I suppose hardcore Linux users aren't likely to be using a product that is currentl...

The joy of index cards 4/15/2018

Some of you might find this interesting: http://nickpage.co.uk/stuff/the-joy-of-index-cards -- Andy Brice https://www.hyperplan.com

Check your apps on macOS High Sierra for 64-bit status 3/25/2018

The situation on Windows is a bit different in that MS are still selling both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Whereas there hasn't been a 32 bit version of macOS for some time (2011?). I still shi...

Check your apps on macOS High Sierra for 64-bit status 3/25/2018

I had a look on my laptop. There is quite a bitf stuff on there that is 32 bit as well, which is a surprise. Especially when it is big companies like Adobe and Microsoft. -- Andy Brice https://www.h...

Check your apps on macOS High Sierra for 64-bit status 3/25/2018

Is anyone still releasing 32 bit apps for the mac? The last time I shipped a 32 bit Apple application was around 2012. -- Andy Brice https://www.hyperplan.com

MindManager back for Mac 3/20/2018

>The big money will be online, made by the giants, by giving away the wares and getting the metrics and data. The users becomes the product via their data. We've gone a long way down that path alread...

MindManager back for Mac 3/18/2018

>https://insights.dice.com/2018/01/31/setapp-proves-worth-developers/ "It’s a good business model for MacPaw, but the payout model for developers is still a bit murky." Indeed! Anyway I get t...

MindManager back for Mac 3/18/2018

SetApp is an interesting idea. I wonder how much of that monthly fee goes to the developers? Do they pay the developers according to how much their software used, or a flat fee?

MindManager back for Mac 3/16/2018

It is pretty bizarre if they have completely different code bases for the Windows and Mac versions. I use a framework (Qt) that lets me compile a single set of C++source to create both Windows and Mac...

Unorthodox/clever software usage? 3/13/2018

>Email as file repo is surprisingly robust. When I am travelling I keep a USB key on a lanyard around my neck. Any sensitive files are encrypted into self extracting .exe files using Axcrypt: http:...

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