GrandView is an
outlining and
personal information management
Personal information management (PIM) is the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages, and email mes ...
(PIM) application originally developed by
Living Videotext.
Living Videotext was acquired by
Symantec in 1987. Grandview was sold until the early 1990s and is no longer supported by Symantec.
It closely resembled PC-Outline, an outliner for IBM PCs of the 1980s. Grandview was derived from the same software.
Reception
''
BYTE
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ...
'' in 1989 listed GrandView as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it was "packed with goodies" and worth the time necessary to learn how to use it.
See also
*
Outliner
An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization. Textual information is contained in discrete sections ca ...
References
External links
Compute! magazine review of Grandview 2.0, 1992Home Office Computing review, 1991A version of GrandView 2.0 for DOS that is completely portable, fully functional, and ready to run on any modern version of Windows up to Windows 10, using vDos-lfn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grandview (Software)
Gen Digital software
Personal information managers
Outliners
DOS software