Re: "Metaoutlining"

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Posted by stephenz
2005-02-16 16:33:16

> For me, the beauty of a multipane outliner is that I can put whatever I want in the data pane. I wouldn’t want to be restricted to just outlines.

Charlie,

I see your point… it seems unlikely that a two-pane outliner that provided one-pane outlining in its item editor would be able to store other types of data.

> What do you think of the idea of the data pane of a multipane outliner being impelemented as a browser object, so that you can open a web page, a Word doc, an Excel spreadsheet—- or an outline, assuming you had an outliner app which was also an OLE/COM server?

The closest I’ve seen to achieving this is InfoRapid, which comes close to this idea, but I found it to be unreliable. There have been no updates in a year, so I don’t know if it is a living, breathing product or not. But when it worked properly, you could “switch” a button that opened an MS Office document right in its editor. I guess this was some kind of OLE magic, but, as I said, it wasn’t very stable in my experience.

Steve Z.

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