Re: Looking for the information

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2165

Posted by ureadit
2004-08-29 22:17:31

GrandView is a superb outliner* and had many of the information features you would want in its Categories/Assignments = columns capabilities. In particular, you can create subject categories and create rules that will assign a term or phrase (i.e., an “assignent”) to a categorty whenever GV encounters the phrase or word combination you specify in your rule. (You do have to click to have GV automatically update the info after you’ve added more material.) You can then go into the category view, selectt a category and assignment and get a listing of all outline items with that assignment. If you click on one of these outline items in the category view, you can then go back to that item in the outline view. Columns use the same info, showing the relevant assignmentsin the outline view next to an outline item.

Integrated with the Categories is a graphic calendar and task priority view.

Example of use: For every meeting I had, I wrote a short summary. I created rules to automatically categorize the meeting by subject, attendees, etc. When the General Accounting Office or Senate asked for a list of the meetings I had held with a specific organization X, the subjects, and the dates, it was a breeze to print the list: I went to the Categories view, selected the category “Meetings,” selected the assignment X, and printed.

The things I really missed were lack of alarms and no graphic equations. I had to create equations using printer function controls, which looked fine in print but not on screen. Now those printers are long gone.

* P.S. NoteMap’s outling capabilities are pathetic compared with GV’s.
-sc

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