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Contributed by: chrisweuve Sunday, April 02 2006 @ 06:09 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

If you want to use Life Balance EXACTLY as described on the developer's website, then it's a great app. But it has virtually NO configuration options.

Two quick examples:
1) So, say you want to create a "Place" called Projects, so you can list all of your projects separately. Sorry, can't do that -- only the LOWEST level task on any branh of the tree can be displayed on your To Do list.

2) So, say you want to change the header or the footer on a printout, or get rid of the color coded bar, or change the columns display in the printout. Sorry -- can't do any of those things.

The worst part is that most of the irritating attributes seem to "features." It's not so much what the app can't do, it's what the designer decided that it **shouldn't** do.

I've probably spent 20 hours mucking with this thing over the past month, on top of the twenty hours I spent a year or so ago the last time I tried to use it. I'm forced to do all sorts of workarounds (like dummy entries and WRITING OUT TO DO LISTS BY **HAND**) to get even basic usefulness out of it.

So, if your vision of a productivity app matches the developer's, it's a great choice. If it doesn't match exactly, it's extremely frustrating.   
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One-trick pony - beirne

So, say you want to create a "Place" called Projects, so you can list all of your projects separately. Sorry, can't do that -- only the LOWEST level task on any branh of the tree can be displayed on your To Do list.

There is a tradeoff here. If you want to see your projects, put them at the same level in the tree and open the tree up to just that level. You can also then easily select a project to adjust its importance level to prioritize your work. The reason you can only view the lowest tasks in the branches is so that you only see tasks that you can actually perform at that moment in time. This is very powerful and makes looking at an actual task list a lot simpler. Having said that, there is already a checkbox that allows you to see tasks for closed places. Maybe it would be handy to have a checkbox that shows all tasks without considering the hierarchy.

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Thursday, June 29 2006 @ 06:21 AM PDT


One-trick pony - chrisweuve

It's "very powerful" to prevent the user from doing something?!?

If this app were any more "powerful," it would have no functionality whatsoever.

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Saturday, November 10 2007 @ 12:11 PM PST