Re: An Addition to the List

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-01-05 13:12:30

>Using a tree to set up categories is inherantly
>slower and less ergonomic than using InfoHandler.
>It may be helpful, however, to see the results
>of setting up categories and groups and
>assigning them to data in tree form; InfoHandler
>easily allows that.

The question doesn’t concern setting them up but reorganizing them. There’s no way faster than a tree with multiple selection (or better yet, true mark and gather), because you are grouping them en masse, not one by one.

The inference was that InfoHandler is more adapted to a system where categories are _relatively_ permanent, as contrasted with the categories most appropriate to MyInfo3 and Ultra Recall.

>I think that trying to implement keywords using a
>tree as some programs try to do is an attempt to
>make the tree fit a new function

No, two names for a single function, the cross-classification of data. If you think there are two separate functions involved, you should name or describe each.

Stephen R. Diamond

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