Re: Is outlining the best free form database organization?

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-05-14 12:35:08

And yes, MM and others were much more astounding (and useful) relative to typewriters and manilla file folders than (e.g.) ADM is relative to MM. The increments get smaller as we move on. But you never know; I live in hope that I’ll be thrilled again!

Coming to Windows XP from Mac OS 9 six months ago, there was a lot to be thrilled about. Outlining fanatics like I were dismayed for years that More 3.1 had yet to be approached by current offerings, but to my thinking, ADM 2 was essentially More 3.1 updated and ported to Windows. Its lineage, so far as I understand it (not very far) seems to agree with this assessment. Its keystroke shortcuts are the same as More’s (ctrl L to create child; ctrl K to create a new heading to the left; and ctrl enter to create a parallel heading). And ADM 3 incorporates the traditions of InfoDepot. (While separate strokes for different kinds of headings is more logical than the two-step approach of Word, OneNote, and NoteMap, it makes the program harder to learn and perhaps less ergonomic. But ADM supplements this with arrow key expedients that I don’t remember More having.)

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