At 09:05 PM 1/29/2007 -0800, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi there,
Yes another GTD product, this one integrating with Outlook:
http://www.accomplice.com/index.html
Anyone has been using / testing / heard about it? It's Windows only so I
can't install it and it's hard to get a fair idea of how it works based on
the marketing material on the site.
Did you watch the tutorial video?
http://www.accomplice.com/tutorials/quickstart.html
There are some more docs and videos here:
http://www.accomplice.com/tutorials.html
I downloaded it and played with it for a few minutes, and my net assessment
is that it is a poor execution of a very good idea/workflow design. If it
were not for the poor execution, I would probably switch to it from
Ecco. Its concepts of collections, filtering, one-click tickler, and
simple collaboration are very good, but the usability is hampered by
awkward rendering, poor font choices, lack of clear visual hierarchy
between controls (and inconsistent visual cues as to what controls look
like: some are links, some are buttons, and some are just icons). The
choice of status selection as a dropdown arrow next to a checkbox is just
weird and awkward. Their attempts to build lots of help into the product
using large grey text in the background of various work areas just makes
the visuals even more confusing.
All that having been said, the underlying conceptual design and workflow
seems quite solid, especially how well thought-out the collaborative task
management appears to be. It would be a better GTD tool if it had a way to
find all the "next actions" and automatically track what's next within each
project, but as it is it would still be pretty usable -- assuming you could
get past the hideous and awkward visuals.
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