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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 21, 2013 at 05:07 PM
Simon Bolivar wrote:
I downloaded treesheets recently and haven’t roadtested it.
I can highly recommend it. I’m sure it can be used for many different things. I use it as a matrix-form outliner.
E.g. Currently I’m working on an outline in a Freeplane mind map, and I noticed that several branches ended up with information at their ends that was common to all of them, which suggested to me that this information could be better organised in a table.
So I switched to TreeSheets, and by organising the same info in a 9 x 5 table, I was able to develop the ideas further and discover new relationships. It is far easier and faster to do this kind of (brainstorming, idea-development) work in TreeSheets than in Word or Excel.
I also like that cells can be nested within cells, so effectively you can organise your information into boxes within boxes within boxes etc.
Posted by Simon Bolivar
Nov 21, 2013 at 05:43 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I can highly recommend it. I’m sure it can be used for many different
>things. I use it as a matrix-form outliner.
>
>E.g. Currently I’m working on an outline in a Freeplane mind map, and I
>noticed that several branches ended up with information at their ends
>that was common to all of them, which suggested to me that this
>information could be better organised in a table.
>
>So I switched to TreeSheets, and by organising the same info in a 9 x 5
>table, I was able to develop the ideas further and discover new
>relationships. It is far easier and faster to do this kind of
>(brainstorming, idea-development) work in TreeSheets than in Word or
>Excel.
>
>I also like that cells can be nested within cells, so effectively you
>can organise your information into boxes within boxes within boxes etc.
Thanks for the suggestions for using treesheets
I use mempad as my plain text outliner, cintanotes now to store highly tagged paragraphs, and treesheets could be my tool to brainstorm ideas beyond just text.
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 17, 2016 at 01:43 AM
Thank goodness for TreeSheets!
I’ve been grappling with a tough project management problem for weeks now, needing to map multiple dimensions across and side-by-side each other, and I’ve tried a whole series of different software, and nothing worked.
Either the software were too fiddly and slow to work with, or have gone into too much detail, or weren’t able to give me the one-page Gantt-like overview I needed.
In TreeSheets effectively I created a Gantt chart manually, while ordering multiple parallel projects, and allocating time in blocks of weeks. For some reason the whole process worked a lot more smoothly than if I had used a spreadsheet.
Thanks to the great export options, I was able to export the file to CSV > Excel > Google Sheets, so now I can pin the Gantt chart to my browser’s bookmark bar and refer to it daily.
BTW, there seem to be some new versions out there (I have v. Sep 13, 2015) but on GitHub they are even talking about a Jan 23, 2016 release, though I couldn’t find where to download it from. The forum (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/treesheets) also seems to have regular and recent discussion, so it looks like TreeSheets lives on!
Posted by yosemite
Apr 21, 2017 at 03:58 AM
Wouter keeps updating TreeSheets. The Windows download at http://strlen.com/treesheets/ is “Version Mar 26 2017” according to the Help/About menu. You can see the updates history at github.
Dr Andus: your use of TreeSheets for “multiple parallel projects, and allocating time in blocks of weeks” sounds very intriguing. Would you happen to be able to share a screenshot to show how you set this up?
Lately my project management efforts have led me to experimenting with easy gantt tools with some outlining capabilities, such as tomsplanner and smartsheet, but they’re not quite right for what I want. Basically, too sparse, like all gantt charts are. Then I remembered TreeSheets, and I’m loving the folding (F10) and text shrinking capabilities. I’m trying to do something like projects as rows and time as columns, but I’m getting stuck trying to keep the time dimensions lined up vertically across projects. Unless I make a column for every single day… hmm, maybe I’ll try that.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Apr 21, 2017 at 04:36 AM
yosemite wrote:
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>Lately my project management efforts have led me to experimenting with easy gantt tools with some outlining capabilities, such as tomsplanner and smartsheet, but they’re not quite right for what I want. Basically, too sparse, like all gantt charts are.
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Hi yosemite,
You may want to try InfoQube. It has fine outlining capabilities and powerful Gantt charts. When too sparse, you can flip to Timeline view, which is much more compact. Finally, tasks can also be shown in a good-old Calendar style view.
Details here: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/3886
HTH !
Pierre
IQ Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz