Re: Vitally needed functions

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2014

Posted by srdiamond15
2004-07-07 17:31:14

Moving multiple items and the force functions both help in the situations where the force functions might be invoked. If you want to promote an item but not its children, absent both of these your operations are as numerous as the unaffected subordinates, plus one. With the ability to mark multiple items, there will be one extra keystroke, compared to using the force function.

As far as not usig it, the temptation distracts. Not disastrously, but enough that its incorporation presents an interface issue.

I agree wholeheartedly about reversing a hierarchy, and
I think the next important development in outlining will be ones that ‘remember’ and allow easy switching between substantively different views of the same data. But inverting a hierarchy is a logical operation. Conforming a hierarchy to different theories is a conceptual operation. Whereas forced moves is a purely mechanical and ad hoc expedient. Mental ergonomics over physical ergonomics!

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