stream of consciousness

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Posted by magni
2002-08-30 09:19:15

My question is not strictly linked to the world of outliners…
... does somebody remember BlackMagic ?

It was a wonderful program (DOS) that, with HTML not yet widespread, allowed to create big Hypertexts.
The amazement was that you were able to create your big structure without using any external editor. You could READ the hypertext, and/if you wanted, you could WRITE to it, creating pages, hyperlinks, inserting images (even imagemaps!!!) JUST WITH A COUPLE OF KEYSTROKES.
I never was able since then to find another program that let me create my own writings in this “stream of consciousness” style: you always had to leave the <reading> program to enter into the <editing> program… just not what I wanted.

It possibly exists something like this in the outliners world?
My main problem is that I even lack the words to describe the program I need, but I hope I’ve given you the main idea.

Thanks

Alessandro

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