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Swift To-Do List 7 Standard FREE today 2012-03-26 Only on BDJ
wraith808:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/swift-to-do-list-7-standard/
I've seen some pretty good discounts- but never free. And this is a pretty well-regarded to-do list software. To upgrade to the more advanced versions is only the difference in prices.
Why he's doing it:
It's an experiment. We also want to have more users and raise awareness of our products. We also hope that many customers will eventually upgrade to Professional edition, as it has much more features and majority of our paying customers prefers it.
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The difference in versions (from http://www.dextronet.com/product_editions/professional?product_id=55292310)
What's the difference between Standard and Professional?
The Professional edition has all the features of Standard edition and many extra.
* It allows you to easily email tasks to others or to yourself.
* Set Start Date and Completion Date for your tasks.
* Assign tasks using Assigned To field.
* Track your progress more precisely using Percent Done field and Status field.
* Use Time Estimate and Time Spent fields for easy time tracking.
* Context field helps you to better categorize your tasks.
* You can receive email reminders and recurrence notifications
* Inbuilt time tracker for your tasks (floating window)
The best part is: The Professional edition can automatically hide fields that you don't use - the program is always kept simple and clear. You decide which fields you want to use. (This is a unique feature not found in any other task manager).
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tranglos:
Free is good! But Dextronet has recently sent me this (I'm a registered user of the Pro version):
We've recently launched new Ultimate edition of Swift To-Do List. Compared to
Professional, it adds these new features:
1) 100 new tree icons (so there is no 244 in total in Ultimate!)
2) Two-line displaying of too long task names
3) Spellchecker for notes and memos
4) Multi-level numbered lists in notes and memos (outlines)
5) Other extra Ultimate-only features that will be added in the future as free Ultimate-only upgrades.
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I started with the Standard version in 2007, later upgraded to Pro. That was already quite expensive. Now in a classic bait-and-switch, they are offering a new "Ultimate" version... which has more icons and a spell-checker and a promise... for $199.95 (regular price).
I've noticed I have been avoiding using Swift To-Do List, because of its agonizingly slow startup and general sluggishness while editing notes (.Net again!), un-backup-able database (while the app is running, and it should be running all the time) and its malicious splash screen, which always shows on the active monitor only to block your view for about 10 seconds. (IMO this is literally malicious, as in, the programmer had to expend some effort to make sure the splash screen always shows on the active screen, because every time I've launched the app I so want to look at it again, every time in the five years I've been using it. Can't disable the splash screen in program options. This is one of the things that make me wonder sometimes :-) Oh, and since a version a few months back it installs not in Program Files, but under Users/AppData, which is still wrong even if Chrome does this too.
Knowing what I know now, I'd get it for free, but I won't be giving Dextronet any more money in the future.
wraith808:
because of its agonizingly slow startup and general sluggishness while editing notes (.Net again!)
-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 08:12 AM)
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No. Developer issues. This is not a general .NET problem.
tranglos:
because of its agonizingly slow startup and general sluggishness while editing notes (.Net again!)
-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 08:12 AM)
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No. Developer issues. This is not a general .NET problem.
-wraith808 (March 26, 2012, 09:11 AM)
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I will not swallow the bait... I will not swallow the bait.. I will not... :-)
Dormouse:
I had a quick look, but couldn't see that it (any edition) did anything that AbstractSpoon's ToDoList doesn't do. There probably is something, and the cloud links aren't in ToDoList yet, but the advantages of free, open source and still rapidly developing are substantial.
I find it is always the look that leads me to look at alternatives, but when I try to use them, the way that ToDoList has everything in front of you is just so much more efficient than the progs that use a popup to add a new task.
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