There are lots of problems like this, bad implementation of a good idea, which is just the description I would give to this app. That’s too bad.. this would be really cool if it worked well.

I don’t use the program anymore, but not because I had problems with it. The few weeks that I did use it I found that it was rather stable and worked as I expected it to. Sorry to hear that you had so many problems with it.

But I’ve found the program lacking in intuitiveness and completeness. It feels as if it’s 90% done but no one ever tested it in the real world.

The containers are a great idea but they don’t work well — directory containers produce corrupted lists unless the container is open large enough to display the entire directory (where are the elevator bars?).

Every thing is a container (good) except for the reminders (bad). The reminders are small labels that list a date/time but not the item you need to be reminded of(?!?). You have to mouse-over or dbl-click for that info, which may be fine for a few reminders but not when you have 10, 20 or more. And the mouse-over popup is blk txt on blue background (difficult to read) and not customizable. Instead… Alarms/reminders should be an option for every container.

There are lots of problems like this, bad implementation of a good idea, which is just the description I would give to this app. That’s too bad.. this would be really cool if it worked well.

I found I couldn’t get it to dock onto the left hand side of my left hand screen, as this wasn’t the primary display. It would always jump back to the left of the right screen, right in the middle of my desktop.

That’s interesting. Must be a bug because I haven’t had that happen. You should submit that to the developers.

How is the memory usage like? The main reason I don’t use Google’s sidebar is because it is a hog. Is this one any better than all the other ones out there?

Memory usage is pretty reasonable…typically around 10MB or 15MB. I would say that’s good.

I’m sure there are a lot of people who have never heard of the program though.

I agree with that. I’m sure they’ll address this in a future release because it does seem like a persistent problem.

1) It checks each link when it loads. If you start SideSlide when the system boots, this adds disk thrashing.

2) Sometimes clicking on the links don’t work. There will be a little red X icon as if you tried to edit an entry when it is locked.

It would be great if they’d come up with a faster and more efficient way of setting the icons and verifying links and if they’d track down the erroneous prohibited red X which shows up at times.