Re: Timeline

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Project Manager in PA wrote:
I think Microsoft is really missing a lot of its potential market by limiting the timeline to 1984 forward. I am a project manager, and I find this program extremely limiting because I cannot also map out a sequence of events to a client, journalist, attorney, or new hire to show them how we got where we are.

Historians, journalists, lawyers, detectives, anthropologists, astronomers, geologists, and novelists all need a way to plot out a sequence of events throughout history.

Why not let the user select the entire time period and divide it up as he sees fit, ie millenia or hours? How hard is that? We have computerized calandars already which cover an etremely wide time frame.

Sure, we have all been using Excell since the 1980's to do this, but why learn a new software like Project with a more limited functionality. I do not want to invest a lot of time learning a specialized product which I will only use occasionally. I need a historical view as frequently as a future view.

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While Project *can* plot a timeline, it would be a poor plotter of a timeline. It's a tool for computing project schedules, and then assisting with managing the information related to tracking that project as the project progresses.

I've had two occasions to use MindManger for this purpose, once with a journalist and once with a lawyer. Worked well. Allowed us to focus on the issue/opportunity, and not on drawing pretty pictures. MindManager took care of the latter quite satisfactorily.
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