Updated: Finally turning into the program it looked like it could be!
Looks great and very promising, but many small frustrations. Documentation and support are either nonexistant or obscured. Consistently ran into small things that I wished I could tweak, especially regarding date ranges. I don’t ding them much for this - I get the need to trade off utility for user control, but it’s maybe swung a little too fat. Also encountered a bit of interface roughness. Simple things rangign from a crash losing my first project to badly tangling dependency lines to the fact that when you use the keyboard to create a new item, the name is not selected, so you need to go click on it to name it. Small things, but they reveal it to be a little rough around the edges.
But for all that, i really like what this *can* do, and with a little more polish, this could easily move from a curiosity to a permanent addition to my toolkit.
Edit for 1.7 - This update looked promising, and I was very excited to see that they placed document settings for the date range very prominently. That feature alone would have bumped them up another star. Unfortunately, it’s behavior is outright erratic - it can set an approximate zoom level, which is nice, but it still can’t seem to put solid bounds on a timeline (and it still can’t seem to usefully zoom in to less than ~2 months). So, not so much. However, they added templates, and there have been numerous cleanups, and the rate of improvement has me optimististic that they’re going to nail this sooner or later. So I am tenatively moving my rating from 2 to 3 stars, in a fit of optimism
Edit for 1.9 - Gains another star (4 now) for overall improvement. Events now box out nicely, presents well enough that I can now show these to management without them asking questions about runaway dates or other weird presentation issues. Lots of fun little bells and whistles. This may finally be ready for prime time.
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