What's new in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.36
Oct 1, 2019
- Getting ready for popup based interface in Desktop versions and improved device versions (only IOS currently for beta testers). We will limit pictures and contacts sync functionalities to prepare to Google authorize procedure. Next version will bring up restored popup functionality from original Windows-based Ariadne Organizer.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.34 (Jul 22, 2018)
- Coming soon Gmail and GDrive images synchronization. Fixed series of GUI bugs and improved interfaces. Added new functional tabs related to contacts and topic outlines.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.33 (Nov 24, 2017)
- Ardi 6.33 comes with improved Gmail modules tested for most popular email formats. Added GTD tabs for Pad & Fit views similar to Gmail label. Updated synchronization to support GDrive id for images and albums.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.31 (Oct 5, 2016)
- The development was focused on migration from Dropbox v1 to v2 API since v1 is about to expire next year. The migration resulted in a separate library that we decided to spin off and publish as open source project under name dropboxQt. It might be useful for other C++ developers, the git repo is hosted by github also there is webpage on our website with basic instructions.
- In application itself there were series of GUI related fixes and optimizations, also extended planner - added milestones and generalized task dependencies procedures, also updated Home-view, enabled exandable graph nodes etc.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.25 (May 13, 2016)
- 6.25 will bring GTD - "Getting Things Done", popularized by David Allen (gettingthingsdone.com) workflow of actions and ideas. The new "Home" tab in Ariadne displays GTD folders:
- Inbox
- Reference
- Maybe/Someday
- Delegated
- Projects
- Trash
- and diagram that describes the workflow with actionable items, delegated and items organized in projects.
- The basic ideas of GTD were partially implemented in previous versions but new approach in GUI design has prevailed - it enforces more strict following of the methodology. The GTD and Project folders bring structure into classic outline of topics, also it fits perfectly into existing design of application, so it looks like quite a natural evolution.
- On organizational note - we will increase development cycle to 5 months to allow more time for QA testing, also Android version will be available now as beta and Linux version will be available as free. In future we plan to work further on GTD features, enable export projects data to Microsoft Project XML file and optimize GUI for small form factor devices.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.23 (Jan 5, 2016)
- There are new project-and-planning-related features and series of small improvements, also GUI polishing in many places.
- The work-type resources were added and enabled allocation of the resources per project task.
- The Gantt&Plan view have changed to handle resource management and became more user friendly, with shadow progress bar, attached images and multiline text, also drag&drop in desktop versions.
- All task edit screens allow title edition and display main image if attached, same for Note tab display.
- Internally synchronization algorithm & base data structures got generalized which helped to eliminate code redundancy & many small bugs.
- The data in outline is presented as collection of topics. By adding elements to the topics we can change their properties, for example, topic with budget & calendar date becomes project, topic with priority & cost - task, resource is special topic with additional records attached - email, cost, schedule etc.. Such discrete presentation of data helps with classification and generalization of storage and replica procedures. In other words it makes possible to build complex structures with a set of relatively simple objects that don't get changed as new composite objects are constructed.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.19 (Jan 5, 2016)
- Updated version with improved user interface and cloud synchronization module. Fixed series of small issues and made dozens of adjustments in GUI to simplify screens and data windows. GUI of the program is becoming Tab-oriented with minimal number of splitters and scroll controls, in fact there are no splitters in basic version now and most of the scrolls are made kinetic.
- Another big addition is cross platform auto test module to speed up bug detection and improve quality of the program - the module was designed to run program in resource critical conditions, generate randomly various commands, synchronize against local databases and emulate user activity.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.15 (Jan 5, 2016)
- In 6.15 enabled notes with images and tables, copy&past of HTML with images for Chrome & Mozilla browsers. Also drag&drop of images, HTML and text documents.
- Added words/tags feature for user defined custom dictionaries.
- Implemented speech command.
- Fixed several dozen of small issues in editor and outliner, unified menu, tab controls & views.
- Unified cloud synchronization of multiple local database files.
- Upgraded development platform to OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), enabled dropbox synchronization.
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.14 (Jan 5, 2016)
- Updated project management and added CPM (critical path method) tab. Polished basic organizer features and fixed QA detected issues. Polished images management controls and Android version, also improved Dropbox synchronization and enabled multiple sync topics for client database (implemented as QA beta feature).
New in Ardi (formerly AriadneOrganizer) 6.12 (Jan 5, 2016)
- Added project management features - Gantt charts, WBS ( Work Breakdown Structure) diagrams and project topics. Every item inside project is treated as a task with properties:
- duration
- percentage of completion
- list of predecessor items
- There is separate tab, called "Plan" to work with projects, it opens access to Task table, Gantt charts, WBS. The dependencies between tasks are edited in Gantt chart and in project table by clicking on column marked with arrow. Projects organized as separate logical branches in outline. Projects can be part of "Cloud Topic" and synchronized over the cloud. Also they can be members of other generic topics. The new set of tabs in main program windows looks like this:
- Pad - main outline view (with notes workspace)
- Plan - main project view (with notes workspace, Gantt Chart or WBS diagram)
- Fit - outline designed to move around nodes in tree (notes workspace)
- Note - view of single note and it's images if any
- Group - view for searching and grouping items