a few thoughts about infoqube

Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 22, 2019 at 11:12 AM

tightbeam wrote:
>Lothar put it bluntly, but his point is still valid: it is so difficult
>for users - especially casual users, the vast bulk of the market - to
>get a handle on InfoQube that they give up (as I did).

Same here. I trialled IQ in March/April on a small project, and gave up after a lot of trial and error. I found it clunky and difficult to grasp.

In March I suggested building a stripped-down version and - at Pierre’s request - listed a feature set that I thought would be fine for beginners (I guess Pierre must have overlooked my suggestions).

Here is my old post: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/34459

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Franz >>And you could think about a stripped-down version of InfoQube :-)

Pierre >No problem, just list the stripped-down feature set and I’ll do it !
>;-)

OK, Pierre. A lite version of IQ (for me) would consist of
- Inbox
- Calendar
- Projects
- plus the Welcome and IQDoc grids

What I would disable: the Tags pane, the Tags and Link columns (what is the Link column for, anyways), and the Item Properties window(s). And throw out the Pivot commands, the Visual Basic Editor, Google Connect and other stuff most users will never need.
But please, make the Documents pane sticky (maybe with an option to hide it but not close-able). I closed that pane accidentally and cursed you because I couldn’t find a way to re-open it. I searched up and down the View and Grid menus, till - in my despair - I discovered the “View - Documents - New Document Pane” command.

That would make a much cleaner interface. Right now, I find the interface overwhelming and too noisy.

And, Pierre. Thanks for asking.
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What I referred to was IQ 0.9.112f