Forum Posts Feed
Re: How *should* mark and gather work?
< Next Message | Back to archived message list | Previous Message >
Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.
Outliners.com Message ID: 2932
Posted by jlarue
2005-03-09 20:49:51
Stephen I just tried your experiment in Freemind. There is no mark and gather. So if you do what you suggest in the ORDER you suggest—drag subheading graphic outliners, THEN the others to a new parent, it works the way you think it should.
I repeated the experiment in MORE. This time, I did mark the headings to be moved, then gathered them under a new heading. It moved the entire Textual outliners tree under outliners. It did NOT make Graphic outliners a sibling to Textual outliners. (I didn’t try it in TAO—there are only so many computers you can occupy at a single moment.)
So Freemind and MORE follow the same logic. But I see why: it allows the top heading to control. As you say, a different logic, and easily solved by breaking the reorganization into smaller steps, and a certain sequence.
I suppose I can see some advantages to your approach, but it wouldn’t tilt my decision for one outliner over another.