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Posted by VicGee
Feb 21, 2009 at 05:51 AM
I’ve just posted about a new outliner/treemap application. It’s not easy to nail down how to classify it really, but I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks and I really like it. Here’s the post:
http://www.mind-mapping.org/blog/2009/02/treesheets-fast-organised-notes/
Regards
Vic Gee
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Dear Vic,
Thanks for the heads up at this forum. I got your blog’s RSS feed this morning and was sufficiently intrigued by TreeSheets to try it out straight away. Needless to say I am impressed.
For one thing, the program looks remarkably mature, straightforward to use and actually useful.
Indeed it does represent a different organisational paradigm, even compared to other ‘hierarchical spreadsheet’ approaches such as B-liner. I imagine that the ‘tables within tables’ approach will be familiar to people who have written HTML code, but I don’t think I’ve seen it in any kind of PIM.
[Actually, this is partially wrong: I think AI base ( http://www.aibase-cs.com/ ) can place tables within tables, but it’s not its key feature and it’s rather .idiosyncratic compared to TreeSheets’ common sense approach.]
Thanks again; I encourage others in this forum to check the software out and will be writing my own impressions over the next days.
Alexander
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 21, 2009 at 01:57 PM
This is an intriguing application. I’m currently at home—where I’m Mac-based—but intend to check out TreeSheet at the office. This is timely, because I’ve been thinking more about keeping information in tables, or grids. I was looking again at the quirky, interesting Notebox Disorganizer, but the advantage of a grid is also its disadvantage: it’s too rigid. But TS seems to bypass that problem with the nested tables. Thank you for the heads up.
Steve Z.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 21, 2009 at 04:46 PM
Steve,
I think that you’ll be delighted to hear that you can exchange information with several other applications (Brainstorm, Natara Bonsai and mind mapping programs are a few that come to mind) with indented text. From the tutorial “copy paste any ascii text into a cell with indentation will create a tree structure according to the indentation”. Similarly, exporting as text will produce an indented ascii file that can be read into the programs mentioned above.
It’s particularly interesting to see Brainstorm files expand into a sort of editable ‘Ballon view’ something that Brainstorm aficionados have been wanting for ages. And it is here that the TreeSheets’ advantage can be best demonstrated: it expands the traditional outline by adding an extra dimension, i.e. additional cells for every entry.
I am more and more impressed as I work on it.
Cheers
Alexander
Posted by VicGee
Feb 22, 2009 at 05:18 AM
Steve,
Wouter has just mentioned Mac and Linux versions based on the current code-base.
Vic
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