Comments on: ListPro 6.0?

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Ilium Software Blog » Blog Archive » Trick or Treat! — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:32:00 +0000

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By: DeWayne

DeWayne — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:21:07 +0000

While I wait desperately for th 5.1 icon color update here are a couple of other requests for 6.0. I would like to be able to save multiple “Views” of a list where each “view” would contain various filter, sort and outline level compression settings.

I have created a form of GTD template that works well for me but find it frustrating to have to manually reapply filters, sorts and outline compression/expansion settings all the time.

Another use for such a template would be to facilitate an archive function which I have implemented using a flattened outline and completion filter together with a Cut and Paste (into another list) operation.

I could go on about other things like calculating priorities from subordinate outline entries or macro’s but that might me to much to hope for!

Thanks for a great product.

By: Peter Koch

Peter Koch — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:03:46 +0000

It would be useful to add a “Prevent Deletion” checkbox to the List Properties. I have clicked OK at the confirm deletion prompt a tad too quick and ended up reaching for a backup copy to restore a much-needed list. The concept could be extended to folders too.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:43:56 +0000

… Related to the flag colour problem is traffic lights. As I’m now firmly in middle age the ergonomics of squinting to see a tiny pixel colour is less appealing and a nice obvious splash. Hey, if you wan’t creative make is a ‘blob, or a splash of paint please, but don’t try to squeeze a vertical picture into a horizontally dominated paradigm (ok, in English, text based). I’ll have to change from using traffic lights while this remains the same.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:10:07 +0000

Just wanted to point the one missing feature that makes ListPro totally unusable for me: the ability to wrap the item field.

Of course, there are other improvements that would be great, but this wrapping ability is ESSENTIAL.

Regards.

By: Alain

Alain — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:56:40 +0000

Just testing it at the moment. Congratulation it looks like really promising.

BUT
Be able to protect items from being edited on a single tap.
The action of a single tap on an item in the list could customizable.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:58:23 +0000

I agree with Per F (despite initially supporting a U3 version). Portability is key.

By: Per F

Per F — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:04:15 +0000

One more vote for a portable version, but not U3 which isn’t necessary, just portable. If Ilium can make eWallet portable, why not ListPro?

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:33:14 +0000

Henry – Actually in ListPro 5.0 find should work fine for information in the Notes Pane. In fact I just did a find now to make sure and it works. You are right that we don’t search the list names. I’ll mark that down as a request.

And to everyone else, great comments all around. We are definitely listening.

By: Andrew R

Andrew R — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:13:26 +0000

One other thing … I’m leaving my current job in a couple of weeks and thought I’d set up a countdown timer to celebrate. I thought I’d be able to deduct todays date from a fixed date to allow me to do this. I haven’t been able to achieve this yet so I’d like the ability for date field calculations to be able to deduct or add a fixed date to the system date (or a manually entered date). I know my application of this is trivial, however, it has the potential to be a start of a very simple project management type capability (I’ve never got on with complicated project management activities!)