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Goalscape @ BitsDuJour on Friday
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Posted by MsJulie
Oct 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM
There’s been a recent discussion here on Goalscape. I notice that it is 40% off on Friday. That being said, it strikes me as frightfully expensive.
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/goalscape-desktop/
Quite a discussion has gone on at the site.
Any takers?
Posted by Graham Rhind
Oct 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Yes, and interesting discussion, with a definite amount of obsessing about the price. But, as Richard points out, it’s under active development and it’s a perpetual license; and my own experience is of fantastic support. I don’t know how much I would use it, but I did use it in testing and it did give me another way of looking at my tasks which I found stimulated thought and moved me to new ideas.
I shall be purchasing.
Graham
Posted by skylark
Oct 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM
I initially like the concept and had a go. The UI is clever but once you go above a certain level of layering it start to fail (for my way of working/thinking anyway) I could say how I would like it changed, but it would take a long time for me to explaine in this discussion .
In short, they (as most developers do) have missed several simple tricks that could potentially catapult it into the “must have” software….as said, I could tell them some but haven’t got the time.
The start up of individual .gsp files was far too slow for me to use, even after I invented some workarouds for features I would like as a minimum, so its nearly off my machine (especially at the higher price I am required to pay out). 40% less makes me want to play for longer, but as said the missing features will probably win in the end so it wont go on/stay on my pc.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 27, 2010 at 02:18 PM
Hi.
@skylark: What exactly is it you do not like about the software? Instead of writing twice “as said, I could tell them some but haven?t got the time”, you could easily have written 2 sentences about what bugs you :-)
Franz (who considers taking the BitsduJour offering)
Posted by skylark
Oct 27, 2010 at 09:20 PM
Hi
@Franz: I didn’t say it bugged me and it is very good to a level (but not in my opinion for a power user to drive a life/business). I would also have had to have had longer with the trial to be able to fully analyse it and then to articulate properly and fully what I would like to do with it (I can rattle on for hours and hours about outliners).
I also have software development aspirations and taking the nice UI idea with a different slant/approach, adding some simple but missing features, I might be simply describing a new thing that I would like to and should go and get developed myself (Unfortunately I can’t code).
It is good and will get better with development, but is not enough for me. As a minimum baseline and in outliner terms its not an EN2.0.