Author here, AMA.
Just discovered this is on hn again, it has been on here at least once before:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247372" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247372</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578662" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578662</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394418" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394418</a><p>But hey, I don't mind the attention :)
TreeSheets (native cross-platform app based on wxWidgets) is great and in need of new contributors.<p>For non-linear organizing on iOS, the indie app MindScope (<a href="https://www.macstories.net/reviews/mindscope-review/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macstories.net/reviews/mindscope-review/</a>) is uniquely fast for brainstorming and re-factoring visual layout, before exporting an outline to another tool. A single node can be linked from more than one location in the hierarchy.
I've been using TreeSheets for a long time now and, though occasionally I do run into limitations I find it generally to be on "the right scale" for nearly all of my needs.<p>It's small enough that it starts really fast. Simple enough that I can write, organise, and curate what little I have to deal with quickly enough that I don't give up or get interrupted midstream. And it works on most of the platforms I use. If it were available for my iPad, I'd buy it but I can totally understand not wanting to deal the iTunes store.
Looks beautiful but seems to be only for trees which you can sort of do just by indenting in a text editor. I sometimes want to organize things as a DAG and that's where indenting text starts to fail.<p>I wish there was a very general purpose graph editing and visualizing tool that could be as general purpose as spreadsheets.
As someone who spent way too much time obsessing over this stuff, this is awesome and very promising.<p>One reason I'm not happy with traditional spreadsheets is that there's no non-hackish way to implement "tagging" (as in, hashtagging) a given row. You can create a "tag" column for storing "tag strings" (all the tags that have been applied to this row, delimited by say comma) and then filter by instr or some regex, but it's inconvenient.<p>Haven't fully checked out the features of TreeSheets yet but I imagine it would be quite suited for this purpose? Is it possible to do a search for all the rows whose 'tag' column's value includes as a member (not: contains as a substring) a particular tag?
This is pretty amazing. I use a combination of OneNote and MindNode across my machines/tablets (except on Windows, where I have no mind mapping solution) and I've often wanted something that could merge tabular and tree formats.<p>The Mac version is a little clunky (and yet, it's wxWidgets), but works. The file format is... probably my only concern, but there is XML export.
Oh this piques my curiosity, big time!<p>There is a large gap in software for non-linear thinking/sketching. It's not obvious for tasks that require linear thinking, like programming, but when you are trying to explore solutions in an fuzzy problem space, something along the lines of TreeSheets is certainly useful.
Very cool! If I had found this a year ago or so I could have saved myself a lot of work, I built something similar but with a web front end (which also helps to make it easier to collaborate on a project). We use this in the run-up to a technical due diligence to organize all the information and to prevent duplicate efforts.
Ah nice. I've been looking for an offline desktop app where I could collect all the data that's needed to complete official/govt forms, like my tax and health cover info. Make/model/yr of purchase of vehicles, dates I moved house, purchase dates for various things.<p>Will check it out.
> The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets<p>That's a lofty claim, might want to make it more specific to thought mapping.<p>Other than that looks cool, will try it out when I'm home. What's the GUI framework, out of curiousity?
Very interesting, but still a bit rough to be self-claimed "The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases."<p>Looks interesting, wish luck
If the visualization side isn't as important to you, Airtable is a great tool for managing structured relational data.<p><a href="https://airtable.com/" rel="nofollow">https://airtable.com/</a>