Ernst Gamauf
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Things
A simple checklist is just as easy on paper. The only thing an electronic version does for me, is to allow changes without an eraser.
I need one that actually categorizes more complex lists without an
"out-of-sight, out-of-mind" experience. That handles indents & matrix columns, yet can hide away the complexity at a click.
I've looked at a number of these: Still looking for an affordable ideal. I don't want to drop $50 or more for an app that I won't use.
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This is not a review of the product, rather a comment.
My gripe is largely that a lot of the apps haven’t captured my imagination.
Maybe that’s my problem & not the seller’s.
I hesitate to mention other apps at length in a comment tacked onto this one,
because its really not fair to Things, to use its entry to talk at length about other ones,
especially since I never gave it a proper try!
For CP not getting my comment: There is a threshold cost I would spend for an app that may not
meet my needs very well. I’m not dissing this one, but I haven’t really warmed to it to the tune of $50.
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Adobe Lightroom
I'd like to test drive Lightroom.
And I'd like serious comparisons between it & its competition.
NeoFinder
Somehow my rating of its predecessor, CDFinder, was adjusted down by accident in a watch list & I can't seem to recover its previous state.
Strom
Kihoalu reviewed on 25 Dec 2011
Its got the rudiments, but no elegance. DId I miss something?
Quick testdrive says all it is are a handful of box shaps as masks for text, with connectors. Another org chart creator.
As previous testdriver noticed: each tool requires a click on the toolbar to activate & use it. Needs a bit of work, imo.
Whatever happened to the flowcharters which existed in OS9?
There were a few that weren't keeping up with the interface & relied on scrollbars, but had hot links in the corners of the "card" which allowed for text notes, others which linked to subordinate charts.
VoodooPad Lite
Kihoalu reviewed on 03 Apr 2011
I'm always meaning to upgrade, but haven't yet.
One of those "why would I ever use this?"
For web 'reseach,' this is just grand.
I've used it to collect information off the web for some writing, cut & pasted into VoodooPad with the hotlinks intact & then crosslink it locally into its own loose database for further processing in other applications.
This is a MUST have application, that along with just a few others, makes the Mac environment special.
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OmniOutliner
Kihoalu reviewed on 03 Apr 2011
Its been really fabulous, but every product has is reasonable price point.
The inability to link as Circus Ponies is a drawback, they haven't yet enticed me to stay with the product as much as I love its multi-columns. (Useful multi-columns is what Circus Ponies lacks).
This is what I used to use the long defunct (OS9 only) InControl PIM for, before stumbling onto OmniOutliner, as a ToDo manager that had a spreadsheet matrix built in.
OmniOutliner Standard IS cheaper than OmniFocus, a nice offshoot that they made, as a GTD listmanager, but which they priced far past its a broad customer base.
Outliner appears to have gone long in the tooth, because it hasn't really evolved much since the first cut of version 3, from my trial. Although, a matrixed outliner is pretty darn good as a tool.
Give me both apps (Outliner & Focus) for the price of Outliner Pro, extend the license to encompass both a desktop & a laptop or iPad, maybe a really good family license price & I could spring for it again.
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Thinking Rock
Kihoalu reviewed on 03 Apr 2011
Out of Sight, out of mind. GTD is about having a visual metaphor that puts your task list comfortably in front of your face, as well as a comprehensive database.
This isn't so much a GTD tool, as a nagging mother.
Well, OK. sloppy analogy: It feels restrictive. If I were an office manager, this might be useful.
If I spend this much time organizing all my stuff, but it loses visiblity - will I really accomplish all the tasks? I need a brainstorm tool that creates a readable matrix.
The price is great, however. None of its competitors has the feature set, price & ease of use combination that make me swoon.
FreeMind
Kihoalu reviewed on 01 Mar 2011
I've tried several. No ones got it exactly right yet.
Freemind is OK.
It feels a little restrictive in that its not totally freeform as it could be.
It doesn't lend itself to slapping "Notecard" type of boxes all over the page & connecting & organizing them after-the-fact as well as it might.
I was hoping for Inspiration on steroids.
Haven't really found any mindmappers which aren't restrictive or without an involved learning curve, while having a rich feature set. Inspiration, ThinkingRock.
There used to be a wiki-type of flow charter in the OS 8 days that had the right idea, but couldn't break away from scrollbars & claustrophobic page sizes.
Pretty good for simple stuff. It can only get better.
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NeoFinder
Kihoalu reviewed on 01 Mar 2011
I testdrove several before buying this one. Have used disktracker in the past, but that has the drawback of not being visual.
Most people are not that organized (a good reason for a cataloger) & if you are a visually-driven person, you want that referent as well as a text database to find your data.
Norbert does nice work & is very responsive & seems always enthused about making it better. Ausgezeichnet.
Is great to track removables - archived photos & items visually.
It needs some more batch options & is slow in cataloging if you want decent-sized thumbnails & drill down through all the levels to tag your items for later retrieval.
To date, I haven't found another cataloger quite in the same class.
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Blender
Kihoalu reviewed on 01 Mar 2011
It can produce some nice work.
For free, this is very good as a surface modeler & it has it own animation built in.
They have not finished the import-export options in the 2.56a beta version, so it could be a problem moving to & from solid modelers. Stable versions didn't play well with up-to-date Illustrator files.
The interface is like none other -
violates everything you'd be used to doing, which makes for a long learning curve if you've used any other 3d application!
Don't expect to be proficient in a week or month. Maybe several.
The 2.5x version is moving to a different paradigm from the 2.49 stable version, but doesn't feel Mac-like in the least. In fact, it resembles a decade old 3d CAD program in its complex & slightly convoluted panels.
3d modelers all use their own keyboard shortcuts to whirl & twirl & zoom vs pan & rotate. You can change these.
It really needs some rudimentary human models & clothing such as Poser or some of the other modelers use & would be useful to people immediately, then.
Blender models are oriented toward quad meshes. That makes getting models made in other applications a problem, because a number of those use triangles.
Getting human body models from MakeHuman don't work well for several reasons. Same is true in porting from Poser.
If you are a longtime Illustrator user, the implementation of bezier curves in Blender may drive you batty.
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Certainly not if you have ever used a lot of applications that at least resemble each other
in the interface & how it approaches the gui. 2.56a is getting closer, but it has too many hideaway panels that get in your face & it feels cluttered (to me).
Admittedly you can change these.
If you've never touched a modeler or CAD program before - that may actually be in your favor for the learning curve.
If you've got a month to play exclusively with Blender all day, you can get up to speed pretty well, but if you have a day job, or a life - I stick by my assessment.
Which still does not detract from a very capable application.