First of all, let me address this issue according to what I'm doing currently:
--First of all, I have obviously been using InfoQube since this thread started, and yes, it is definitely capable of doing what I'm asking. Actually, I do use it to do what I initially what I asked for in this thread. Here's how it's done. In the grid, I have a column for date, project name, project description, status. Then any notes go in the html pane. There are no trees or heirarchy used, it's just one long list. If I need to look at just the one project, I filter the list and only those are shown. So for each significant project event it gets logged in this grid, and it becomes a project history database. I actually call the grid Project Log.
--Now that is not exactly what I asked for in the original question. Since I work in a heavily bureaucratic environment, my supervisor also has to know some of this stuff, but not in the detail listed above. He just needs a single line per project showing it's general status and project number. And since he doesn't use infoqube, excel is the simplest way to do this. So I made a really cool Excel spreadsheet where everyone lists their projects with a drop-down box for a status, and all these projects get listed in a master sheet for the supervisor to look over. It works really well and was kind of a pain to do (since it really should be done in access or using VBA, neither of which I know).
So there's my update. Personally speaking, the simplest solution to this is InfoQube, especially if it's just for one person and not meant to be shared between several people. Even then, I think InfoQUbe could do it, but you'd have to convince all the other users to use it and buy it and etc...you know how that goes.
