Existing users, 
TAO
Information outliner/organizer.
Version: 1.8d
Brilliant, but...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Matt_Neuburg_865 Friday, October 01 2004 @ 12:12 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
Although the developer has almost understood MORE, he has not fully understood it. As far as I can tell, there is a major functionality hole, something without which no outliner can be useful - keyboard navigation. There has to be a way to navigate from this item to its next or previous sibling even if children intervene, or from this item directly to its parent. Once that's in place, this will be the first Mac OS X application capable of replacing MORE.
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Not a problem - sprindle1
I believe that for $30 you get two installs, so you can install on both your powerbook and desktop computer, or your home and office computer, etc. The only caveats are that (1) the installs are for one user on each computer; and (2) if the computers are networked together, you can't run TAO simultaneously. Seems fair, and is in line with lots of other software mongers who realize that many of us do use two computers.Friday, December 31 2004 @ 09:35 AM PST
Brilliant, but... - signata
I am not sure what you mean by missing full keyboard navigation from items. You can, of course, navigate with just the arrow keys, and this does not pay attention to heirachy, it merely moves up and down the uncollapsed outline. Additionally, there is the ability to jump in the heirachy using the arrow keys and Cmd+Opt. They all function as you would expect. Cmd+Opt+Left Arrow moves to the parent, for instance. Cmd+Opt+Up Arrow moves to the previous sibling of the item, jumping over intervening children. Cmd+Opt+Right Arrow moves down a level to the first child. Using just the Ctrl key and the arrows moves an item around in the heirachy. Cmd+Ctrl+Arrow splits at the cursor. And Cmd+Arrow creates a new item. All of these are similar in what you would expect. Cmd+Left creates a sibling of the item's parent. Ctrl+Left moves the item to that same position; Cmd+Ctrl+Left splits to the same position from the current cursor position.Wednesday, December 22 2004 @ 01:54 PM PST
Brilliant, but... - Matt_Neuburg_865
This is issue is now closed - with the release of 1.02, TAO now has full keyboard navigation. (It has had it in beta for a while.) This program has now gone from great to superb!Sunday, January 02 2005 @ 10:16 AM PST
why i'm not buying - keybored
it is a very promising program i have been following through the betas, and i'm impressed by how well the developer has brought this along. but since the license is a one-machine license, i'd have to buy it twice for single-person use, or lug desktops back and forth to work. a lamentable decision. what do the rest of you think?Reply to This
Monday, October 04 2004 @ 04:11 AM PDT