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TAO

TAO

Information outliner/organizer.

Version:  1.8d

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OK compared to alternatives

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Contributed by: G983475 Sunday, November 12 2006 @ 05:21 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

This is a good app based on its available features. But it is very unpolished, it is not easy to learn, and it's slow. Despite all that, its competitors are lagging behind in features, TAO has pretty much everything on the "power outliner" wishlist (it doesn't have AppleScript yet, but I don't use it).

But I must admit, I'll be using this and hoping to dump it in favor of OmniOutliner if they get their act together and add some of these features. And with TAO's sometimes slow and occasionally buggy behavior (although usually minor), I could blame the fact that it's in beta, but this thing is always in beta so that's no excuse. The last non-beta release is a completely different app, and I would not use it.   
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Not that slow - ChepnisAroma

TAO is not that slow, actually it's slightly faster with this update. But maybe that's just me.
Power Mac G5 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.4.8.

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Monday, November 13 2006 @ 07:22 PM PST


OK compared to alternatives - Mikis--2008

I haven't tried TAO. However, I really think an outliner should be very responsive also on older machines, like 5 years at least. I use OmniOutliner on a Powerbook G4 400mhz and I'm very satisfied with that app for my purposes. I even run stuff like Logic 7on this machine, so it can kick in when it has to.

Even if occasional features need horsepower that shouldn't make an app slow all the time. One app that is unusable even on your 1.8Ghz G5 that springs to mind is Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 and later. I had to revert to the earlier version.
I'm obviously not implicating this is the case with TAO, but it's a sound basic principle with software to expect responsiveness and optimized code.

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Wednesday, October 24 2007 @ 02:24 AM PDT