Your top 3 tools?

Posted by Cassius
Mar 18, 2013 at 04:56 AM

Tim the Red wrote:
Cassius wrote:
>> Talk to the people who are ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK and watch what they do.
> >Truer advice is rarely if ever given. Alas it is just as ignored now as it always has been.
> >Anyway, I don’t post mcuh but I wanted to say three things:
> >1. the above
>2. thank you Cassius for one of the most interesting posts I’ve read on this forum
> >3. why doesn’t someone just redo Grandview for today? Easier said than
>done I suppose, but jeez, it can’t be THAT hard, can it? heh heh…
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a) Thanks, Tim.
b) Someone did try to produce a GV for Windows. It sort of worked, but he couldn’t get it to work well enough. Some years ago, I tracked down GV’s author. He had just moved and had no idea in which box his GV files were. Also, he had moved on to other things and was not really interested. Finally, the GV file format seems to be truly complex. If you were to open a GV file using a simple text editor it would look like a bewildering mishmash.

NoteMap was an attempt to duplicate many of GV’s features. Unfortunately, it was buggy, lost test (at least for me) and after one update, development was abandoned.

-c