Indigrid

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Dec 30, 2017 at 05:44 AM

I was going to give Indigrid a miss after the initial posts in this thread, but then I read Mark Nevarrik’s post (Dec 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM) and became interested (so, thankyou, Mark).
I read pretty much all over the Indigrid website, including the “10,000-word essay” and which i found very interesting. I am always interested to consider people’s thoughts and ideas about thinking and idea creation.
I then downloaded the Indigrid installer file and ran it.

My experiences:
1. The installer was impressively quick to do what it did.
2. Installed location: I looked at where it had installed the proggie and I work folders - - it seemed to be all under my UserID. I would have preferred to have been given an option to install it elsewhere, but I recognise this is a nicety when one is testing a Beta app.
3. Indigrid has a clean, simple GUI, but I was unable to explore it much, at first. When I tried to do most anything, the proggie seemed to crash at an annoyingly early stage, with fleeting and vague error messages that it had encountered an (undefined) error and needed to restart, or something.
4. However, after I restarted it, it seemed to settle down and behave itself. I wondered whether the app had the necessary write access permissions to the folder it was installed in, on first start.
5. So I was then able to play around with it to a greater extent.
6. I like the relatively intuitive navigation controls. Good ergonomics.
7. The bottom bar of the GUI seems to have a poor selection of contrasting (or non-contrasting) colours and fonts, making some of the text difficult to read. This is a problem in ergonomic visual perception. Unless they have been developing military software or graphics displays, most developers would probably not appreciate this comment (though they might have lots of opinions about it).
8. Version tested: The .exe version I was testing was v1.0.2.0, MD5 hash: (32D7CA350A52E9B3A85AA0546212575B)
9. I didn’t do any more testing as Mark wrote that he intended putting up an update soon.

I think Mark’s website definitely needs an RSS feed defined. I cannot abide registering for “push” news via “Newsletter” registration (I won’t do it), but I always use “pull” news by subscribing deserving websites (e.g., OutlinerSoftware.com).to my BazQux feed-reader.

Hope this helps or is of use.
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