Re: Anyone looking at ADM?

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Outliners.com Message ID: 1277

Posted by eric
2002-02-19 06:43:30

Hey Jonathen! Thanks for the vote of confidence in ADM in your preceeding message.

Software development can be a fullfilling and creatively rewarding but also a thankless task. Contrary to a widely believed myth, developers are humans too (joke). So, all kidding aside, I really appreciate the humanity and kindness in your message. I can also assure you that: 1) The ADM speed screens (our present outliner interface) will never die!; 2) We definitely intend to add a conventional outliner interface as *another* means of working with the data; and 3) I agree with your request to *not* “scatter more buttons, icons and garbage all over the place. Keep it clean and lean.” This latter point helps to crystalize - and put into words - our own thinking about this matter. “The Interface: Keep it clean and lean” is actually a good mantra for cutting through interface clutter. From my perspective, ADM’s interface is now about as loaded as it can be: Any substantial additional `surface’ features - i.e., new icons, buttons, etc. on the main screen, will have to be compensated by removal of an equivalent element. It’s called `trade-offs’.

That’s it for now; let us know if you need any help with the program.
Warm Regards,
Eric Sommer, CEO, ADM P.S. You might like to download version 1.00015 - it corrects some minor but annoying glitches that crept in due to the easier topic text entry, and it updates our help menu to cover use of a new notepad function which be popped up with ADM minimized.

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