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Product Description:
TAO is a powerful outliner/organizer where chunks of information can easily be managed and organized as items. TAO supports basic outliner facilities, such as creating, moving, sorting, grouping, combining and gathering items. Also the following useful facilities help you organize items:
- Capable of importing graphics and multiple fonts for text
- Split editor
- Multiple Columns
- Can zoom editors and comments
- Multiple-file find
- Highlighting with color labels
- Cloning
- Hoisting
- Labeling
- Bookmark
- Linking among items, fields and texts
- File Link
- Background colors for text, item and document
- Cascading style sheets
- Named styles
- Filter support
- Can export to text, RTF, doc, HTML and OPML files
- Can import from text, RTF, doc, OPML, MORE, ACTA files
- Spotlight support
- Universal Binary
What's new in this version:
- Changes & Improvements
- Can configure a character for hyphen in the custom labeling.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed some bugs that the application won't work properly on MacOS X 10.5.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
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d-lit.com? - Version: 1.8d, 4/29/2009 06:08AM PST
ZX-81
Anyone knows what d.light is? The original Tao page now appears on a site called" d-lit.com" and the only app mentioned is Tao.
Abandonware? - Version: 1.8b, 2/12/2009 08:14PM PST
dancasali
I bought Tao several years ago as it was the closest thing available to the now unavailable Thinktank More.
It met my needs, though up until a year or so ago it was ever changing. No more. It is inert, maybe abandoned. Nothing has changed on the developer web site since June of 07. No development or bug fixes are being released. I love it, but cracks are appearing, and it seems to be abandoned. Anyone found a decent replacement? I need cloning.
(Please. Please. Someone bring More back.)
It met my needs, though up until a year or so ago it was ever changing. No more. It is inert, maybe abandoned. Nothing has changed on the developer web site since June of 07. No development or bug fixes are being released. I love it, but cracks are appearing, and it seems to be abandoned. Anyone found a decent replacement? I need cloning.
(Please. Please. Someone bring More back.)
TAO is dead? 
- Version: 1.8b, 8/2/2008 10:10AM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
cogden
As an original ThinkTank/More user, one of my biggest OS X hurdles was converting my (and those of my colleagues') outlines to a OS X application. After testing all the available software, we found Tao to offer the most robust feature set. I then helped Takashi Hamada with the alpha/beta testing and the product's evolution (then called "FO"). The product was very promising
Unfortunately, what was once solid support has waned. Development (which people once complained resulted in too many updates) has stalled. Indeed his website that addresses "Current State of Development" hasn't been updated since 3rd June, 2007. The "shipping" version is a beta.
Worst starting June 2007, the product has led to total file corruption in more than six instances. Takashi wrote that they were working on the issue, yet a year has passed and no new version has been released, and the product continues to corrupt critical data beyond recovery.
Unfortunately, additional emails to Takahasi have gone unanswered.
Sady, we can no longer recommend this product.
While OmniOutliner seems to be the next best thing, it doesn't match Tao in several key areas, namely "Cloning" (which Omni has promised for over two years now) and ease of keyboard custom configurations. They are still stuck in 3.x releases, with no 4.0 in sight.
The funny thing is that More still rocks as a mean, lean, featured outliner. To bad Dave Winer doesn't brush off the source code and release it for Leopard (seeing as how the product was abandoned by Symantec).
