I've been using Action Outline for years and despite it not being updated in about 10 years, (a dead-end program if there ever was one), except to add tabbed documents and change tree colors, at least it is a super light-weight, nimble, rock-solid application... MyInfo still has a ways to go
However, i wanted to look past that and desperately wanted something better than AO. MyInfo just didn't cut it. I found these major errors unacceptable for me:
Major Issues:
• Double and Triple Clicking (also clicking and dragging) doesn't work like 99% of every other Windows program. (Open up a Word document and try this: Double-clicking highlights a word, triple-clicking highlights a whole paragraph. MyInfo doesn't work this way. Also, double-click a word and while holding down the mouse, just start dragging -- you begin highlighting starting with that word. Again, MI doesn't work this way.)
• Long document titles get cut off and don't even appear or give indication they are truncated (e.g. ellipsis), and even the "multiline document titles" setting doesn't make a difference.. there is a very wide imaginary right-margin in the tree pane that doesn't need to be there. (also here's a brilliant idea: give the tree window a horizontal scrollbar when needed... like any other windows program would.) Interestingly, long document titles that don't contain any spaces *DO* show an ellipsis when truncated.
• The Hyperlink style doesn't create links that are actually clickable... i.e. it just makes them "look" like hyperlinks (i encountered this when importing my Action Outline file -- all the hyperlinks were blue and underlined but were unclickable)
• Sometimes closing MyInfo (using either the top right X or double-clicking the upper left program icon) will result in the program actually shutting down despite "Close button minimizes application" setting being checked.
• Viewing embedded files (e.g. Excel) or stored copies of a web pages is ridiculous -- the viewer pane is tiny compared to the huge notes window underneath, and minimizing the notes window or changing the size doesn't stick.. simply change focus to anything else and they "reset"
• Embedding files into a document, like an Excel file, creates some strange behaviour. As soon as you click on that "document" with the embedded file, a "lock" is placed on the actual file on the hard drive and you can no longer directly double-click on the file in File Explorer and have it come up in its native application (e.g. Excel), instead it creates a "ghost" iteration of the application that just sits on the taskbar, but you can't actually change focus to it. Also, any attempts to double-click on the file to edit it outside of MyInfo, just brings up MyInfo. (Also I noticed that the address bar within MyInfo show that the file's location is in the temporary folder my user's Local Settings directory). The only way i've found to put things back to normal is to force kill the process of Excel and then magically i can regain access to the file again. (i.e. why go through all this trouble just to see your file within MyInfo?)
• Custom Icons suck: It doesn't use the 16x16 version of an ICO file, instead it uses the 32x32(?) version and crops it to 16x16
• After creating a new "document" pressing TAB opens the comment tooltip box rather than switching focus to the document window. If users don't want to add a comment to their document and instead want to just start adding content to their doc, this just gets in their way.
Minor Issues:
• The header over each "document" pane needs to be bigger and bolder (perhaps give us custom control over this).
• Pasting a hyperlink as destination formatting text does not retain the formatting of document -- it defaults to the 8pt whatever style.
• When dragging a subdocument into another document, the destination document does not auto-expand the way file explorer would if dragging a folder onto another folder