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Whoa! I didn't notice that. I thought it was a normal shareware program. I'm really not liking this trend of applications going web. This is off-topic, but I normally don't like web applications vs standalones. But I also understand that there is value to some web apps, like gmail, google docs, etc. But I also feel that developers will push more and more for that model because it makes it more acceptable to charge monthly fees. With regular shareware, it's a one time charge. If this is the trend, I don't like that.-superboyac (April 21, 2010, 09:20 AM)
Anyway, back on topic...I was also thinking about setting up Infoqube. But I haven't yet, nor do I know exactly how I would do it. Here is the feature list I was going for:
--Firstly, the main goal here is to have a printout (report) that shows the info I want, properly formatted and all that. If I didn't need the report, I wouldn't have even started this thread. For example, if all I wanted was to track action items, I'd just use mylife Organized the way I'm doing now. but when you have to share a report with people, now we're talking a different software. I bring this up because I don't know how capable IQ is with generating reports and stuff. I haven't explored that.
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Now, let's say I have a meeting now. I need to provide a piece of paper that is going to pull in all this information and display it somewhat nicely. So my current meeting report will have to include:
meeting minutes from the previous meetings,
unfinished action items and their status history
recently finished action items
maybe some other stuff-superboyac (April 21, 2010, 09:20 AM)
--Action items: I should be able to add action items to a list, and I should be able to tack their progress with (I'm guessing) a checkbox just to indicate if it's finished or not. Furthermore, I'd have to be able to add status notes to those action items that explain why it's not finished yet, or what went on with it last week. And the notes should be dated. So each action item should have:
title, description, who it's assigned to, potentially multiple status notes (with dates)-superboyac (April 21, 2010, 09:20 AM)
--Meeting minutes: this is pretty simple. Just a description of what was discussed during the meeting. It could be multiple short items, or just one item (per meeting) with the details written in the html pane. The latter is what I'd probably do since i don't like having a ton of little items for most meetings. Just a short summary paragraph. So each meeting should have the following information:
title, date, attendees, location, meeting minutes (notes)-superboyac (April 21, 2010, 09:20 AM)
I don't know, that's my idea. I guess the challenge for IQ is to do it in a way where the action item history is kept track of. And I don't even know if IQ can do this kind of reporting. This is pretty much MS Access kind of funcionality. data, forms, reports...-superboyac (April 21, 2010, 09:20 AM)
If it works for you, perhaps you could do the spring cleaning and then see if you still get the problems you mentioned. It might simplify trying to determine possible causes of the issues you encounter.-ewemoa (April 14, 2010, 10:30 PM)
With respect to Python -- IIUC, TodoTXT may need one of ActiveState's Pythons installed due to the way FScript works. As an example, I have a portable Python installed and my current understanding is that TodoTXT won't work with it. Also, I vaguely recall czb mentioning something about not supporting that one any longer.-ewemoa (April 14, 2010, 10:30 PM)
2- some plugins just stopped working. (Like the Google Translate one : the farr window flashes briefly and I can see that the internet explorer blank page is displayed in farr's result area)I didn't see this in the listing. Is it installed and if so which version might it be? What I have at hand appears to be 2.0.-Armando (April 14, 2010, 05:58 PM)-ewemoa (April 14, 2010, 10:30 PM)
Got caught in other "languages" like java, vb, etc.Would you mind sharing the specific plugins you have installed?
Perhaps one of us might consider trying to reproduce the situation you are encountering.-ewemoa (April 14, 2010, 08:15 PM)
This just in: a high-end editing solution (which I've never tried due to it being... high end) is going to be open sourced soon:
http://www.prlog.org...source-platform.html
Sounds very powerful. Here's the product page and a promising screenshot of the UI:
http://www.editshare...d=155&Itemid=203
Note that I have read it used to be a hardware-based solution, which often means a proprietary, clunky UI and/or workflow, or at the least some odd holdovers from the days of being on a more purpose-built hardware platform. So be prepared for that. Still, a promising option, and perhaps the first real professional-level choice that the open source market has had...
- Oshyan-JavaJones (April 14, 2010, 06:02 PM)
I remembered DC's philosophy of openness... even with those with lower brainwave frequencies...
-Armando (April 14, 2010, 05:10 PM)
Good one. Zing!
Bravo!!!-40hz (April 14, 2010, 06:42 PM)
There has been a break in the posting stream in this thread, so I expect we now are done with the zillion dollar programs, or what? Why must I come here for a free or low cost editor and be told that a $600 editor is what I need?.. I am hoping I can find something that doesn't require a 2 month learning course to understand and hopefully it would also be free or at least cheap.-p3lb0x (April 05, 2010, 02:09 PM)
"Any suggestions?" -as he also were asking.
-Curt (April 14, 2010, 07:57 AM)
@Armando:
I think Vegas is way faster than Premiere. Also Adobe apps have turned into bloatware. To instal one Adobe app, you need to install some other crap too even if you unselect many other crap.-kartal (April 14, 2010, 10:48 AM)
I don't know if this is relevant but, FWIW, I think the latest version of FScript is 1.20 -- at least it looks that way currently:
http://e.craft.free.fr/farr/FScript/-ewemoa (April 11, 2010, 02:31 AM)
I used SQLNotes (now InfoQube, I guess) and wanted to like it so much... but it does not support the hierarchical organization of tables and documents... [...]-JohnFredC (April 10, 2010, 07:12 PM)
If you should find anything more specific on the crashes (i.e. a way to reproduce) let me know.-phitsc (April 08, 2010, 02:43 AM)
perhaps it makes sense to create a public Redmine project instance so we can all collaborate on research, discussion, and planning...-JavaJones (March 31, 2010, 09:39 PM)
They go the route of "this is the way to do things for this industry", which as I said above could be a good thing, *but* they frankly appear to be too rigid in certain areas, basically requiring you buy into their solution end-to-end, or go with specific vendors, etc.-JavaJones (April 01, 2010, 07:13 PM)
Before we go too far, have you looked into existing software packages to see if there might already be something that does the job and is affordable for them?-40hz (April 01, 2010, 07:02 PM)
I suggest that you take a look at an online solution. I serve on the board of a small nonprofit and did a search for them to address what sounds like similar problems. I was quite impressed with Zoho's CRM solution. They haven't yet chosen to put it into play so I cannot testify to how well it works in practice, but my test drive (free) impressed me. It's free for three users and $12/user/month above that: ZohoCRM Pricing.-AEngineer (April 01, 2010, 08:12 PM)
