I use Remember the milk for organizing the list from the brain dump. I also have used evernote. Both are pretty good. They also allow you to take it beyond brain dumps. Remember the milk, has reminders (sms, email) which is very useful.
Its actually 3 columns. but if you are seeing 2 then there probably is a css issue. Can you tell me what platform you are on?
I noticed the hovering issue now. Thanks for that. I will correct it.
"It would be better IMHO if hovering cell would show the description instead of hovering the links" - interesting. I will definitely try and see how that feels
I agree. I would request you to please sign up and give it a shot, but I understand if you don't want to. Putting the content out of sign up will take me some time :-)
Its not because of the content, its really because once you signup you can start taking notes against any projects/project ideas you have. I felt it was worth it to ask for a sign up.
Some people might want to see the content. I am thinking of putting some of it pre-signup. Till then I request you to signup and give it a shot. I am not here to spam, don't worry.
I understand that some of them are just things I am used to in Windows. I didn't say I didn't want to learn. Only, not as a reply to this post. I can always pick up on it elsewhere but my point was only about the intuitiveness, usability of the product.
I would love to know the trick for maximizing windows reliably. I did search for it once and gave up quite quickly.
There's no such thing as "intuitive", there's only what you've become used to.
All the things that annoy you are "intuitive" to me.
You could probably code a maximizing script in Automator in a matter of minutes and bind that thing to a keyboard shortcut if it bothers you that much. I think the fact that most people don't is a sign that maximization isn't that great an idea once you get un-used to it.
Hmmm... I think most people don't do this because they quickly find out they'll never hear the last of it if they say they don't like it ;)
(Also, Automator isn't the easiest thing in the world to figure out - Apple Script isn't terribly well documented, and I've never once seen the Record option record anything useful.)
Fortunately, ShiftIt fixes the problem nicely, and for free. (There are also programs you can pay for, which are probably a bit slicker.) So, no problem.
There is some truth to this. A long while back when I was doing projects, I got a project from a US company.
When after a week of understanding the scope, I quoted my price at around $150/hour they were shell shocked. The work was for redesigning systems that simply were not scaling (designed originally by a US company by the way). At the last minute they backtracked and demanded that since I was from India and the cost of living was much lower, I should charge them around the standard $25/hour.
I can never compete in the project game - and I dont want to anymore - because of this attitude by every single US company that I have ever interacted with!
I passed them on eventually to a $20/hour company in Delhi, even while I explained to them that none of the coders there had any experience with designing systems that scale.
There is also a tendency to feature creep the project since it is only $20/hour which amuses me and is a sure fire recipe for failure. When we ask them if they want a project manager or an architect who can work with them on architecture/ feature set selection they refuse because they cost way more than the coders.
I am not saying your experience is not true, I am just saying that given the attitude towards India, it is bound to the experience more often than not.
The non-completion of the project above could have been for many reasons... feature creeping, inability to communicate what the client wants, language differences and yes, downright bad coding. Since you were not able to clinch the project - which I believe is simply bad salesmanship, like in my case earlier - your "I told you so" rant is based on a massive leap of faith that you or any "US based" programmers could have finished the project on time, which I am simply have no reason to buy.
Some of my stuff is in workflowy as well. I use it as an intermediary app for select projects.