First of all, sorry for my late reply. I simply overlooked the new messages… including yours.
Now to my answer: yes, yes and again yes 😉
- Start Merlin and create a new empty project
- Between the outline and the gantt area is a splitter (divider); drag this with your mouse all the way to the right. Your gantt chart is gone.
- Now you could add a new existing column (using the Insert menu) "Complete". Then right click on the column name and select Format > Checkmark. Now you could drag the column to the left (2nd position).
- Now add another column "Comments" and in the context menu for that column you can set the Format to "Oldest comment".
To make it easy, I have created a project for you: https://www.projectwizards.net/downloads/templates/Tasks.mproject.zip
The only this which is not possible right away, is nesting attachments. But just tell me what you want to do. Maybe there is another way.