I have played extensively with at least 60 SAAS and self hosted PM/Collab solutions in the last two years. On top of general PM tools, I've used Rally and Mingle for agile development, Jira and FogBugz for issue tracking, SugarCRM and vTiger for CRM. I've done feature comparison matrices, even written apps to compare real time calculations of page rank, alexa rank, etc. You could say I'm a little obsessed with tools like this.
Then I found OpenGoo, and I'm blown away. You guys have done a fantastic job. Sure there are more comprehensive (and slick) solutions for money, but to get this kind of quality in an open source free project (in this category) is amazing. There are many things that set OpenGoo apart, but the primary one for me is that it's highly usable. It's lightning quick. It doesn't overwhelm me with stuff I don't need (but I can quickly expand my options). I'm never lost or confused. And, I can get to almost everything in the entire system in three clicks. Amazing.
I'm posting in this thread because the one thing I would ask is to make the community/collaboration within OG more flexible and rich.
Comments, Descriptions, and Notes should have at least bold, underline and bullets (and remember carriage returns). For instance, I would love to create quick agendas for new events in the descriptions box, but it's currently unusable, as OG does not even save my carriage returns in 2.4RC (when creating a new event).
Another example is when I upload a flowchart or image, I often solicit feedback in the comments. I have a hell of a time sorting though paragraphs, dashes, lines made of equals, asterisks for bullets, etc. that are screaming to be clean unordered or ordered lists with some kind of bold or underlined organization.
To me, notes are very similar to discussions; the original note pretty much being the title of the discussion that will follow in comments. And, with the super flexible folder organization of OG, you can choose exactly where this discussion will take place. But again, I have the same complaint... bold, underline, and bullets. Judging by this thread, perhaps a name change for 'notes' is in order as well.
Of course I would love to be able to insert inline tables, images, video, etc. but I feel like the stuff I've outlined above would make a huge difference for the amount of development time it would take to implement.
Thanks for a great product and please keep doing what your doing.
- Thomas