Re: ndxCards v. 1.92 Re: Lessons from the World of Clip Mana

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Posted by ureadit
2005-02-13 20:43:03

Steve Z said: “GrandView allowed you to expand all inline text (or selected topics) so you could view your writing in a more holistic way. You could see if you were being redundant in paragraph three and paragraph six. It was easier to see if paragraph five should really follow paragraph three. Without this “big picture” ability, an outliner loses a lot of its advantages as a writing environment, as far as I’m concerned, and becomes a repository of segmented information that then must be stitched together in another program.”

I agree. Further, a one-pane outliner can also pretend to be a two-pane outliner provided you can collapse/hide the text following a topic’s heading. (The headings “become” the left pane, and once highlighted, the text following a heading can be expanded/unhidden and thus “becomes” the right pane. (And, yes, GV could do this.)

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