Re: UltraRecall Forum; slick multi-pane feature

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2957

Posted by srdiamond15
2005-03-13 16:17:31

In a way it is a good sign. If the program were bug-infested, there would be many complaints.

On the other hand, it reflects that UR is a hard program to be really excited about.It is a very competent program; it isn’t an inspired one.And how excited can one get about _any_ multi-pane outliner. (I know you disagree, Daley.)

I have been looking at graphical outlining programs. They tend to be slicker than textual outliners (as well as more expensive). There are features that a two-pane textual outliner might emulate, since a graphical outliner is inevitably multi-pane (barring an unforeseen creative brainstorm by a graphical outliner developer).

But Visual Mind, imo the slickest of the graphical outliners (although the weakest in feature-count among the Big Three (MindManager, MindGenius, and Visual Mind). It has a simple but partly effective device to compensate for the split between topic and notes that having a multiple pane introduces.You enter the topic, and you enter text that goes with a topic, in a separate window that comes up automatically when you start typing a topic in the diagram.This could be easily and in my opinion fruitfully applied to textual outliners.

Stephen Diamond

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