StoryServer — The World’s Toughest One-Pane Grid — Color Customization, Sorted View and Notepads.
The developers at Polywick Studio implemented, perhaps, the world’s hardest programming challenge: a one-pane grid, as well as implement features made by in-memory patches to the original organizer via extensions.
The Genius Grid
The developers who made the one-pane grid system, were geniuses. They never told how it worked as they sold the Intellectual Property to NETMANAGE (1).
For nearly 21 years — from 1997 to 2018 — time stood still. There were no worthy one-pane organizers.
A search of all the known development toolkit have shown none had implemented any of the features required to implement an original one-pane organizer.
Paradigm Shift
What happened to GrandView(tm), Lotus Agenda and other legendary great organizers?

In DOS, you can move left, right, up and down, and free-form render to 24 lines, 80 column character grid.

In the source-code of multi-tasking console-based systems, the predecessor of GUI-based systems, the concept of Window is based on drawing ASCII lines

In the transition to Windows-Based Systems, the “draw” or “render” is not free to draw where-ever they like.
Instead, render to screen is based on a somewhat confusing API system with multiple subsystems.

What was lost in transition, were — the ability to creatively render what is required.
Grid Colors
Besides the world’s hardest grid, are the monstrous menus and pop-up menus and power-features found in the original one-pane organizer.
In the screenshot below, you will see well-thought Format Menu that merges the old and new menus as one-single Format Menu.

Everyone knows the red-line and it’s usually red. In the below screenshot, this will be changed from Red to Blue.
A professional color-picker is provided to the user to select color.

After selecting the color, you can see a blue color left margin line.

Customers can change the background color of the grid.

Data Sorting
StoryServer implements the Sorted View feature. The Sorted View is implemented as a Windowless dialog-box.

After pressing [OK], the items are now sorted in ascending order.

Repeating the same operation, and selecting ‘Descending’, sorts the grid in descending order.

New Notepads
StoryServer implements in the Notepad Menu in a well-thought manner.

Selecting the “New Notepad…”, you will see a Windowless dialog. This allows the customer to add new notepads without having to re-select View|Notepad|New Notepad repeatedly.

Pressing the “C-olor” button allows user to change the tab-color as seen below.

There are noticeable differences:
- StoryServer implements the multi-line tabs as a wholly new feature. This is not found in original software nor in-memory extension.
- Rename is implemented as Windowless Dialog.
- There is move-left and move-right menu-item, as this g̷a̷m̷e̷-̷m̷e̷c̷h̷a̷n̷i̷c̷ feature is implemented as menu-item. (The original software implemented inside a dialog-box).

The message-box prompt is implemented as a Windowless message-box as well. This considerably reduces the amount of mouse-clicks, key-presses to GTD — get things done.

** Note: The above screenshots are Beta screenshots and may change without notice. The functionality contained herein are near-ready screenshots, not prototypes and represents i̷n̷-̷g̷a̷m̷e̷ — in-app user-interface.
References
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro
