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August 29, 2007
How to use Family for non-genealogy type things
So lately I've been discovering that the more that I start trying to map things out, the more I get frustrated with what's out there. About a month or so ago I started trying to use Family, the software I work on, to do more than genealogy work without modifying the source.
I found that, for the most part, it really did what I needed. It was pretty simple to start adding stuff while ignoring the labels to get what I wanted. Here's a simple example I put together in under 2 minutes:
I've really been happy utilizing Family to do this too, so I'm starting to wonder if other folks would like something similar. Mapping stuff out on a white board at work to show how a network is setup and how it affects the application I support really helps there, this is the same theory. I'm thinking of modifying Family to change the labels and then working with Evan to polish it towards another target audience, and then rereleasing it as another application with a different name and with a different icon set, towards productivity minded users. Would anyone like to see something like this happen?
Comments
did you try omnigraffle?
Posted by: greg at August 30, 2007 08:04 AM
Yep, I found it frustrating to use for what I needed. Each task/sub task needs info, and sometimes I have documents related to each task that I need to attach to that specific task.
Posted by: Chris Forsythe at August 30, 2007 09:53 AM