Card-based productivity software

Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 2, 2016 at 10:22 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:

>Of course HyperPlan does do this, to an extent. But there are fairly
>significant constraints. IMHO, it might be better to allow users to
>specify their own categories (I agree, HyperPlan is already impressively
>flexible in this respect, but sometimes you want ultimate flexibility,
>combined with considerable simplicity).

There is a inevitably a trade-off between flexibility, power and simplicity. I have tried to provide a fair amount of power and flexibility without too much complexity.

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>Finally, I have come to the conclusion that most task managers suffer
>from a major shortcoming: they don’t attach high enough importance to
>(extensive) notes. Anybody who’s got complex projects to manage needs
>plenty of note-taking space! One of the few task managers that does this
>is TickTick, but unfortunately it doesn’t support rich text - a major
>shortcoming. If you’re taking extensive notes, you need some way to
>emphasize certain words or phrases (especially if you’re sharing them).
>Which is where Trello is actually rather good, because it supports
>Markdown.

Hyper Plan has a notes field. But currently it only supports plain text. A number of customers have asked for rich text, so that is somewhere on the ‘wishlist’.

Do you have a particular preference? Markdown, HTML or something else? HTML is almost certainly easier it implement in Hyper Plan’s tech stack. Can you point me at some desktop software with a particularly good implementation of rich text notes (no point in re-inventing that wheel),