Jon,
Yes, one of Ecco's attractions for me has always been the easy and rapid
"tree surgery", that allows me to dump a bunch of information into a
"list" and easily reorganize it as I become aware of the emerging
structure. My hope is that, with some appropriate programming, I can
get a similar facility going in Leo. (If anyone's interested, I can
post a link to a fairly detailed description of Ecco's outlining
commands and features I wrote up a few years back.)
For example, I have a little outline structure that I use for task
management. It's the work of a few seconds to type:
Task name/description
Notes
Status
Expectations /(inputs I expect from others)/
Done /(holds TBDs that have been done)/
TBD
... and then go back and start fleshing it out. It's also simple to
turn a TBD item into a subtask, by just entering these headings under it.
This has worked well enough for me that I've never missed having a tool
specifically oriented to task management. (I actually tried Task Coach
for a while, but found that I was spending too much time on adapting to
the mechanics of the tool.) I have several years' worth of project
"bundles" that I can go back and review when something related comes up.
I too am a fan of Ecco - I still use it under Windows and (via Wine)
under Linux. I would love to find the 'sweet spot' between Ecco and Leo
Yes, that's exactly my desire. (By the way, there's still and active
group of Ecco users, some of whom might find Leo an attractive
alternative. They mention fairly often their concerns that Ecco may
stop working under the "next release" of Windows.)
As you know, Ecco's main pane is more of a hierarchical indented list
[together with, simplified, their respective folders and their
values]. In comparison, Ecco has hierarchical nodes, each with a
headline and content.
I think you meant "Leo" in the second sentence. Yes, that is a
different concept -- Ecco doesn't have that distinction -- in Ecco, a
node's content _is_ its subnodes.
I do feel slightly apologetic about keeping mentioning Ecco in this
forum - Leo is a great bit of work and I have not put the work in to
mould it to my needs sufficently to make many sensible
contributions/suggestions. It is interesting how such an old program
as Ecco still has adherents, nearly twenty years after it was
discontinued...
My feeling is that it's reasonable to continue here, at least for a
while. If it becomes objectionable to others, we can take it "offline"
in various ways. Remember, we're trying to make Leo a reasonable (and
long-term viable) "destination" for a new group of people.
Don
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