Hierarchical outliner with the most complete writing tools?

Posted by Derek Cater
Jun 16, 2009 at 06:22 PM

Many thanks for all the posts since I last replied. If I had at least a passing acquaintance with the software referenced by the first tranche of posts, the most recent ones have lifted the veil on a whole writing software ecosystem I had no knowledge of. Thanks also for the related threads that respondents have directed me towards.

Regarding InfoQube, I agree with Jan Rifkinson that it is a massively capable programme, the development of which I am keeping a close eye on. I plumped for Amode (not necessarily to the exclusion of InfoQube) for various reasons. Firstly, because of its ease of use: I reckon that anyone who has used a two-pane outliner, an electronic calendar and a Gantt-chart-producing project management package would feel at home in Amode within half an hour. I did. Secondly, because it has very robust project management tools and I have to spend much of my life in Gantt charts. Amode allows you to define custom work calendars, set hourly or daily rates per resource and establish start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish and finish-to-start dependencies, within and between projects, something which I think InfoQube does not allow, with the exception of the last of the above dependencies. On the other hand, I accept that InfoQube better handles the kind of tabulated data that lends itself to grids. However, I have found InfoQube to be a massively complex programme that requires more practice than I have had time to give to date.

Many regards

Derek